BIB_ID
225176
Accession number
MA 6094.1-20
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.
Display Date
1951-1995.
Credit line
MA 6094.1-11: Gift; Family of Carter Burden.
Description
20 items, unbound ; size varies + envelopes
Notes
Most letters signed "Jerry."
Provenance
MA 6094.1-11 and additional envelopes: The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature; MA 6094.12-18 and additional Matthew Salinger material: Purchased on the Young Fellows Fund for Twentieth-Century Acquisitions from Ruth E. Linke, 2010; MA 6094.19-20: Purchased on the John F. Fleming Fund from Ruth E. Linke, 2011.
Summary
Collection of fourteen letters from J. D. Salinger to his close friend Michael Mitchell, the graphic artist and designer of the dust jacket for The Catcher in the Rye. Collection consists of one autograph letter signed (MA 6094.4), one autograph postal card signed (MA 6094.9) and twelve typed letters signed. Most letters are accompanied by envelopes postmarked Windsor or White River Jct., Vt., but letters were probably written at Salinger's home in Cornish, N.H. Collection also includes six photographs (MA 6094.13-18) of Salinger's children Margaret and Matthew. Letters and photographs are cataloged individually in twenty records (MA 6094.1-20); see related records for full description.
Housed in
Brown cloth drop-spine box (31 cm)
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