BIB_ID
381288
Accession number
MA 5026.172
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1945 Mar. 31].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever / 8 East 92nd St. / New York City, / New York."
Envelope with postmark; place of writing and date are from postmark.
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.
Envelope with postmark; place of writing and date are from postmark.
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.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Writing from the train he is taking from Chicago to Los Angeles; adding, "There's been nothing unusual about the trip except how much I miss you and Sue"; noting that he heard "the army plans to discharge a lot of men after the end of the European War"; observing that "there are also a lot of discharged men on the train, many of them wounded."
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