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In this typed letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike, Linda continues to lament the poor financial performance of the farm. She updates John about her novel and her mother's conversion to Lutheranism.

Publication Date

2-2-1951

Document Type

Letter

City

Plowville, Pennsylvania

Keywords

clothing, dogs, Mr. Weaver, money, scholarship, Harvard University, Barry Nelson, Mary Ann Schmehl, Christopher Lasch, Dear Juan, Juan Ponce de Leon, United Evangelical Lutheran church, Groundhog Day, Wesley Russell Updike, Katherine Ziemer Kramer, Linda Grace Hoyer, John Updike

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, February 2, 1951

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