BIB_ID
450062
Accession number
MA 23836.7
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, sender.
Display Date
Cornish, New Hampshire, [1955] April 14
Credit line
Gift of Dorothy Jean Guth in memory of Dorothy Lobrano Guth, 2022.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 26.6 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Written at Salinger's secluded house in Cornish, New Hampshire; Salinger's post office box was located in Windsor, Vermont.
"The wedding story" refers to "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters." See Slawenski, J.D. Salinger: A Life, p. 271.
"The wedding story" refers to "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters." See Slawenski, J.D. Salinger: A Life, p. 271.
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Announcing in very oblique fashion that he and Claire Douglas are now married; saying he will inform "Bill and Emily" as well; describing "the wedding story" he is working on; assuring Lobrano that "all goes well here"; offering an explanation for why he is so indirect about the wedding news; commenting on the letters he received about "the Franny story."
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