BIB_ID
450072
Accession number
MA 23836.8
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, sender.
Display Date
Cornish, New Hampshire, [1955]
Credit line
Gift of Dorothy Jean Guth in memory of Dorothy Lobrano Guth, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 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.
Dated "Sunday." Curator notes date this to Spring, 1955.
"The wedding story" refers to "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters." See Slawenski, J.D. Salinger: A Life, p. 271.
Dated "Sunday." Curator notes date this to Spring, 1955.
"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
Telling Lobrano that "the wedding story" is progressing slowly, and describing it; describing his and Claire's "very happy" life; hoping Lobrano will visit some time; saying this letter was meant to be "a herald or a warning" about the story, but he is too close to it to decide which; telling Lobrano they will be in New York in a week or so and he will phone when he is; providing the number of their new home telephone.
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