BIB_ID
449962
Accession number
MA 23836.18
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, sender.
Display Date
Cornish, New Hampshire, 1980 June 23
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Gift of Dorothy Jean Guth in memory of Dorothy Lobrano Guth, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21.6 x 13.9 cm + 1 envelope
Notes
Written at Salinger's secluded house in Cornish, New Hamphire; postmarked "Windsor, VT.," location of the closest post office.
Accompanied by stamped, postmarked envelope addressed to Dorothy Lobrano Guth, The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, N.Y., 10036.
Refers to an advertisement that ran in the New York Times Book Review on June 6, 1982, anonymously announcing that a new novel "Benedictis" was available for publication, and implying that the author was Salinger, working under a pseudonym.
Accompanied by stamped, postmarked envelope addressed to Dorothy Lobrano Guth, The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, N.Y., 10036.
Refers to an advertisement that ran in the New York Times Book Review on June 6, 1982, anonymously announcing that a new novel "Benedictis" was available for publication, and implying that the author was Salinger, working under a pseudonym.
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Thanking Guth for alerting him to "that little business in the esteemed Times's Book Section," althought he had already heard about it and has been advised by a lawyer that he might be able to do something legal about it; sending love to Guth, her mother, and her brother; closing with "How we all survive without Gus's strength and sensitivity, to say nothing of his marvellous company, I don't know."
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