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Typed letter signed : [Camp Gordon, Ga.], to [Mary Cheever], "Tuesday night" [1943 Feb. 9].

BIB_ID
380944
Accession number
MA 5026.111
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Tuesday night" [1943 Feb. 9].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever / 19 East 8th Street / New York City, N.Y." Return address is "Pfc. John Cheever / Co. "E" 22nd Infantry / Camp Gordon, Ga."; place of writing is based on return address.
Envelope with postmark of "Feb. 11, 1943," a Thursday; Cheever's letter was written the Tuesday before, Feb. 9, 1943.
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.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Noting that he has "been eating meals at the Service Club" and needs her to send some money; reporting that "an order for [his] being editor of the regimental paper [is] going through"; adding, "This has been hanging fire for so long that I'm not very enthusiastic about it"; mentioning that "Lin Streeter is going to do the cartoons and we ought to be able to bring out a good paper"; thanking her for the "math book" and remarking that he hopes to have time to "study long division and fractions"; commenting on the warm weather in Georgia.