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Letter from J.D. Salinger, Cornish, New Hampshire, to Gus Lobrano, [New York or Chappaqua, New York], [1955] : autograph manuscript signed

BIB_ID
450077
Accession number
MA 23836.14
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) ; 17 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.
Written in blue pencil on a typescript of a short "Zen story," titled "The Last Will and Testament."
Provenance
Dorothy Jean Guth.
Summary
Opening "Started to write down some thoughts with this Zen story, but the Zen is all that counts, so I ... am just sending the story"; suggesting Lobrano buy a translation of Taoist texts by F. Max-Muller.