Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, December 6, 1950

Authors

Linda Grace Hoyer

Files

Description

In this typed letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike, Linda praises John on his school work and anticipates his return home for Christmas. Linda reminisces about her desire to be an essayist in her youth.

Publication Date

12-6-1950

Document Type

Letter

City

Plowville, Pennsylvania

Keywords

Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Reverend Snyder, Agnes Repplier, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Henry Taylor, Robert Montgomery, Douglas MacArthur, Christmas, Harvard Lampoon, Shillington High School, Thelma Kutch, Nancy Wolf, Harvard Studio, Christopher Lasch, Harvard University, Katherine Ziemer Kramer, Linda Grace Hoyer, John Updike, Dear Juan, Juan Ponce de Leon

Language

English

Sender

Linda Grace Hoyer

Recipient

John Updike

Disciplines

American Literature | Social History | United States History

Comments

This letter is signed [Mother].

Recommended Citation

Hoyer, Linda Grace, "Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, December 6, 1950" (1950). Linda Grace Hoyer Family Correspondence. 43.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/hoyer_correspondence/43

Rights Statement

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