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In this typed letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike, Linda urges John to attend church while he is away at Harvard University. She also notes that church attendance and household chores have been preventing her from working on her novel.

Publication Date

10-20-1950

Document Type

Letter

City

Plowville, Pennsylvania

Keywords

Dear Juan, Juan Ponce de Leon, Alleghenyville, United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Harvard University, Christopher Lasch, James Bryce Gordon Rinehart, Boston, Plowville, Latin, Roy Geiger, Maurice Moyer, Linda Grace Hoyer, John Updike, Wesley Russell Updike

Language

English

Sender

Linda Grace Hoyer

Recipient

John Updike

Disciplines

American Literature | Social History | United States History

Comments

This letter is decorated with a flower at the top left margin.

This letter is signed [Mother].

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Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, October 20, 1950

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