Record ID:
381381
Accession number:
MA 5026.184
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.7 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.
Summary:
Telling her that he has a sunburn; writing, "I finished [George Eliot's] The Mill on the Floss which I thought was a dog"; noting that he still has to read Romola and Silas Marner and "then [he] can throw the book away"; hoping he gets new mail from her soon; remarking, "I'm hanging onto the old letters of yours that I read and reread like scripture."
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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