BIB_ID
381346
Accession number
MA 5026.179
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1945].
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.
Written while Cheever was in Los Angeles in Apr. 1945.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Writing that "this wil probably be [his] last night in Los Angeles"; reporting that he ate dinner at a drug store, went to a movie, and read [George Eliot's] Adam Bede; remarking that he finished Adam Bede and will start Mill on the Floss tomorrow; adding that "the weather here has been what the weather in California is supposed to be; very hot sun, cool in the shade."
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