BIB_ID
450066
Accession number
MA 23836.3
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, sender.
Display Date
Westport, Connecticut, [1951] January 29
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
Probably written in reply to Lobrano's letter of January 25, 1951-- in the New Yorker archives at the New York Public Library-- in which he rejects "Requiem for the Phantom of the Opera," as well as installments of "Catcher in the Rye." See Slawenski, J.D. Salinger: A Life," page 195.
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Opening with "Thank you for that very special letter"; going on to explain that he agrees with Lobrano's assessment of the story in question, and he is "putting it away"; reflecting on how his approach to working on stories has changed, and asserting "It's important that I leave children [i.e. stories] alone for a while"; saying there is a different story he's going to take up; thanking Lobrano again for "taking the trouble to give me your best thoughts."
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