BIB_ID
450065
Accession number
MA 23836.4
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, sender.
Display Date
Invernesshire, Scotland, [1951 June]
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 after another letter dated June 3, before the American publication of "Catcher in the Rye."
The "nun-correspondence school story" refers to "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"; "little girl from the Eskimos story" seems to be a lost spin-off story from "Just Before the War with the Eskimos."
"H.W. Ross / Old Wise[?] Mill Road / Stamford, Conn." inscribed on verso.
The "nun-correspondence school story" refers to "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"; "little girl from the Eskimos story" seems to be a lost spin-off story from "Just Before the War with the Eskimos."
"H.W. Ross / Old Wise[?] Mill Road / Stamford, Conn." inscribed on verso.
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Thanking Lobrano for "the letter and the clipping"; saying he has been in a small hotel in the mountains for a week but has no real writing to show for it; the stories he has been working on aren't working; describing a different story he wants to work on; describing the weather and his travel plans; saying that "most of the old ladies here at the hotel think I have tuberculosis"; returning to the story he wants to write, and his hopes for it; hoping Lobrano has received his advance copy of "Catcher in the Rye."
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