BIB_ID
450074
Accession number
MA 23836.10
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, sender.
Display Date
Cornish, New Hampshire, [1955] August 23
Credit line
Gift of Dorothy Jean Guth in memory of Dorothy Lobrano Guth, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.9 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Written at Salinger's secluded house in Cornish, New Hampshire; Salinger's post office box was located in Windsor, Vermont.
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Claiming he has written Lobrano many times but has been unable to mail the letters; describing at length his current mood and the "single weekend sequence" he is stuck on; expressing relief that some medical tests of Lobrano's "were all O.K."-- "I'm so glad you're all right"; returning to his own mental state-- "I just stew in my own self-centeredness"-- and to issues with the story he is working on; musing on possible courses of action; saying he nearly bought a horse a few weeks ago; sending Lobrano "the fondest greetings"-- "this letter is as trouble [sic] and mixed-up and introspective and writer-ish as all the other letters I tore up, but I want so much to get some word through to you that I'm going to mail it and worry about it later."
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