Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, February 7, 1951

Authors

Linda Grace Hoyer

Files

Description

In this typed letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike, Linda updates John about her progress working on the Dear Juan novel and contemplates it as a means of escape. Linda urges John not to worry about his scholarship, encouraging him to continue with cartooning.

Publication Date

2-7-1951

Document Type

Letter

City

Plowville, Pennsylvania

Keywords

Dear Juan, Juan Ponce de Leon, Mr. Langmuir, Harvard University, Ed French, Lancaster, Dorothy Dix, Bishop Austin Pardue, America's Town Meeting of the Air, Toledo, Spain, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Isabella I of Castile, Cisneros, John Franklin Hoyer, Katherine Ziemer Kramer, Wesley Russell Updike, Linda Grace Hoyer, John Updike, money, scholarship, Elijah

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, February 7, 1951" (1951). Linda Grace Hoyer Family Correspondence. 62.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/hoyer_correspondence/62

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