Research Catalog

Title

[Collection of 104 typed letters, signed ; 29 typed notes, signed ; 1 autograph note, signed ; 3 postcards, to Max Zimmer, January 1977-1982, wioth carbon typescript of letter to Curtis Hamack].

Author

Cheever, John.

Publication

[Ossining, N.Y.], 1977-1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zimmer, Max.
• Hamack, Curtis, 1927-2013.

Description

16 folders in 1 manuscript box.

Summary

• Dates of most letters lack year; order of letters arranged by Max Zimmer, who stated that first letter was written in Jan. 1977; the 3 postcards housed At conclusion of series, as per Zimmer’s arrangement.
• Contains critiques of Zimmer’s writing; accounts of Cheever’s writing, travels, his family; opinions of other authors; sexually explicit passages, often humorous.

Subjects

• Cheever, John > Relations with men
• Cheever, John > Sexual relations
• Gay authors > United States > 20th century > Correspondence
• Love letters. American
• Love-letters > United States > 20th century > Sources
• Yaddo (Artists' colony)

Note

• On the Cheever-Zimmer relationship, see Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life (N.Y.: Knopf, 2009), in which Zimmer, under the alias “Rip,” is quoted at length.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Cheever A.l.s. to Zimmer 1977

OCLC

903693755

Author

Cheever, John.

Title

[Collection of 104 typed letters, signed ; 29 typed notes, signed ; 1 autograph note, signed ; 3 postcards, to Max Zimmer, January 1977-1982, wioth carbon typescript of letter to Curtis Hamack].

Imprint

[Ossining, N.Y.], 1977-1982.

Access

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Added Author

Zimmer, Max. Addressee

Hamack, Curtis, 1927-2013. Addressee

Research Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Cheever A.l.s. to Zimmer 1977