BIB_ID
450073
Accession number
MA 23836.9
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 "Wednesday." Curatorial notes date this to Spring, 1955.
Dated "Wednesday." Curatorial notes date this to Spring, 1955.
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Thanking Lobrano for a check Salinger received; describing its use in building a writing hut and improving their kitchen; hoping Lobrano is feeling better-- "the heat can't have helped"; wishing Lobrano and his family well; describing, in a postscript, the swimming pool they have built-- which "isn't worth a damn"-- and their vegetable garden, which is "pretty good"; saying he is currently in the "let-down" period between projects.
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