Autograph letter signed : "somewhere in the Marianas" [Mariana Islands], to [Mary Cheever], [1945] April 19.

Record ID: 
381381
Accession number: 
MA 5026.184
Author: 
Cheever, John.
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.