BIB_ID
381306
Accession number
MA 5026.175
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Easter" [1945 Apr. 1].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
Easter fell on April 1 in 1945.
On letterhead of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles; place of writing is based on this stationery.
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.
On letterhead of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles; place of writing is based on this stationery.
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
Wishing his family a happy Easter and writing that he hopes Susan "walked in the park and wore her new coat"; explaining that he tried to call her but there was "a delay of from six to eight hours on all New York calls"; discussing how much he misses Mary and Sue; telling her that they must make a cross-country trip together sometime; recounting a conversation he had with a man from Nebraska who was going to fight in the South Pacific; describing the transition from farm land to mountains; adding that he missed some of the California scenery because he had "bought a copy of 'The Best Known Novels of George Eliot' and [he] read Adam Bede into the Los Angeles Station"; giving her his address in Los Angeles.
Catalog link
Department