BIB_ID
381309
Accession number
MA 5026.177
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Tuesday night" [1945 Apr.].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.6 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 in Los Angeles in Apr. 1945, but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Written while Cheever was in Los Angeles in Apr. 1945, but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Reporting that he went to Santa Monica for his plague shot and doesn't feel well now; adding that the other men going on the trip "seem like unusually nice fellows"; telling her that he "moved from the Biltmore to a less expensive and less attractive hotel across the street from the post"; describing two eccentric people he saw in Los Angeles.
Catalog link
Department