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In this typed letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike, Linda asks about John's grades and his plans for returning home for Christmas. Linda discusses her husband's reaction to "the dog story" and writes about her mother joining the Lutheran church.

Publication Date

12-11-1950

Document Type

Letter

City

Plowville, Pennsylvania

Keywords

Franklin Street Station, Reading, United Evangelical Lutheran church, Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa, Collier's, The New Yorker, Reverend Yocum, Millie Kurt, Allen Richards Jr., Frances Thacher, Kay Boyle, Katherine Ziemer Kramer, Wesley Russell Updike, Linda Grace Hoyer, John Updike, grades, Morgantown, Philadelphia

Language

English

Sender

Linda Grace Hoyer

Recipient

John Updike

Disciplines

American Literature | Social History | United States History

Comments

This letter is signed [Mother].

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Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, December 11, 1950

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