Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Typed letter signed : place not specified, to [Mary Cheever], "Monday" [1945].

BIB_ID
381361
Accession number
MA 5026.180
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Monday" [1945].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.4 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 on a trip in California and Asia in 1945, but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Discussing how he has been spending his time while they wait for transportation at an airfield; comparing the men in this branch of the army to the men in Georgia; commenting approvingly on the country near San Francisco: "the grass is very green and rich, ... and there are none of the ugly semi-tropical trees with thorny trunks and rattling fronds that make Los Angeles look like a bed of nettles; telling her that they still hane not been given an address.