BIB_ID
381253
Accession number
MA 5026.170
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1942 or 1943].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 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.
Probably written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Probably written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Noting that the new "apartment sounds swell"; telling her that there is a rumor they are moving to Fort Dix in April; adding that he "distributed the book carefully among a few officers"; reporting that "Alcorn was fired out of the company" and they have a new company commander; remarking that "so far plans are being made for [him] to bring out the paper wherever [they] go"; mentioning Lin Streeter, the cartoonist on the paper; observing of his book, "I was glad to see the stories in a book because they give me an idea of how much I have to learn and what not to do."
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