BIB_ID
381123
Accession number
MA 5026.139
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from John Cheever to his wife, Mary Cheever. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 5026 for details.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Croft, S.C., though he does not include a place of writing.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Croft, S.C., though he does not include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Mentioning how much "leisure [they] have since Dunham went away"; adding that they were in a parade; noting that he went to Spartanburg "the first weekend after pay-day" and "every one of the 17,000 soldiers was in town trying to spend his fifty dollars"; explaining that they took a cab to Hendersonville, N.C., where "everyone was very friendly as though soldiers were something of a novelty"; describing a conversation with a group of old people who were visiting from Florida; quoting a woman from Louisville who told them, "We have been abroad every summer for the last twelve years and we're going to spend our summers there again as soon as you boys clean up over there"; commenting on their conversation with " an old ex-prostitute or ex-actress"; adding that the next day they had a good breakfast and rented horses; saying that the woods were "pleasant" but "nothing like the east."
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