BIB_ID
450064
Accession number
MA 23836.5
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, sender.
Display Date
Cornish, New Hampshire, [1953] January 14
Credit line
Gift of Dorothy Jean Guth in memory of Dorothy Lobrano Guth, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Written at Salinger's secluded house in Cornish, New Hamphire; postmarked and headed "Windsor, VT.," location of the closest post office.
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Announcing that he has bought a house-- "almost literally at the top of a hill"-- in Cornish, New Hampshire, with the closest town being Windsor, Vermont, and moved in; describing his "pretty rugged" lifestyle in New Hampshire, "chopping wood, filling kerosene lamps, changing candles, shovelling snow, etc."; extending a "permanent invitation" to Lobrano to visit; describing the stories he is working on and commenting on some corrections made to his story "Teddy" at the New Yorker.
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