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In this typed letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike, Linda praises John's latest cartoon work and advises him not to worry about his health. She ponders a recent church sermon and relates a story of the dogs' adventure with a muskrat.

Publication Date

3-4-1951

Document Type

Letter

City

Plowville, Pennsylvania

Keywords

Phillips Brooks House, James Thurber, Abraham, Walter E. Thompson, Ford Madox Ford, Oscar Wilde, cartooning, Reverend Verne E. Snyder, Frankie Laine, Dear Juan, Juan Ponce de Leon, dogs, United Evangelical Lutheran church, Saracen, Arab, health, James Burkhart, Beckersville, Tallullah Bankhead, Albert Fry, Ivan Zendt, Chatterbox, Shillington High School, John Franklin Hoyer, Katherine Ziemer Kramer, Wesley Russell Updike, 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].

Writing at the bottom of the letter reads:

[P.S. Find [unknown] and paper if you can. Forget whatever else I wanted to know. What I'm "sharing" is my sympathy for Juan Ponce de Leon, shall we say?]

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Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, March 4, 1951

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