Re: Salinger Manuscripts at Univ of Texas

mike, you sure have a way of finding interesting
stuff!
i echo jim's thanks. (and thanks for that quote from
ocean last month.)

your info below is incredible. what year was this
from? would love to read the actual quote, or was it
a hamilton paraphrase....

kim

--- ANELLO Michael J <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
> i's jes replyin t'dat poyson dat assed abouts'm.....
>
> what's weird, is that hamilton doesn't mention these
> manuscripts in his uncut
> version of his salinger bio....are these mentioned
> in any bio YOU've read?
> not alexander either i don't think....though i
> haven't read that one in
> awhile. anybody EVER read about these? i think
> hamilton saw these, and
> actually got the chance to transcribe them...yet,
> nothing in his salinger bio
> about them.....???? what thef....oh well. i was
> reading that uncut hammy bio
> yesterday and there was a part where salinger was
> talking about all the
> writing he did about the war and how it would all be
> released generations
> after his death and people would then know the truth
> of all that went on
> without him being hung as a traitor....
>
> -mike
>
> >>> jrovira@drew.edu 08/13/03 06:49AM >>>
> This was a VERY interesting post, Michael, thank
> you.
>
> Jim
>
> ANELLO Michael J wrote:
>
> >someone once asked about the salinger manuscripts
> at the ransom center of the
> >university of texas at austin...? so, i got them.
> here are summaries of
> >those for your reading pleasure. -mike
> >
>
>*----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >The "Birthday Boy" manuscript is nine (9) pages and
> undated.
> >
> >The story is set in a hospital. A young man, Ray,
> is visited by his
> >girlfriend, Ethel, on his 22nd birthday. Ray is
> recovering from an illness
> >that, while unspecified, seems to have something to
> do with alcoholism.
> >
> >The story consists primarily of dialogue. Ray
> gropes Ethel, then tries to
> >persuade her to bring him liquor so he may "test
> himself." When she refuses,
> >he curses her then orders her to leave. The story
> concludes with Ethel
> riding
> >the hospital elevator to the ground floor, chilled
> "in all the damp spots."
> >
> >The manuscript has several editorial corrections on
> the first page. One note
> >reads "Hold. Consult." Another note, partially
> erased, asks that the
> >manuscript be "set up in 12 point."
> >
> >The manuscript has Salinger's 1133 Park Avenue
> address on its first page.
> >
>
>*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >The next manuscript is untitled and is ten (10)
> pages and undated; it has a
> >number of authorial edits and emendations. The
> manuscript is less a story
> >than a series of scenes not yet sewn together. The
> central characters are a
> >couple, Frank and Paula Hancher. Paula claims to
> be pregnant and decides
> that
> >she will stay in bed the entire course of her
> pregnancy. She directs her
> >husband to tell friends and neighbors that she's
> gone to help her ailing
> >sister in Ohio.
> >
> >Months pass. The Hanchers continue the ruse for
> nearly a year. Ultimately,
> >Frank comes home, finds the bedroom door locked.
> Paula claims she's having
> >the child. Shortly thereafter, she claims she's
> had the child and now needs
> a
> >crib, baby clothes, etc. However, she won't let
> Frank in the room. Frank
> >provides the items she needs. Then, several days
> later, frustrated that he's
> >still not being let inside, he breaks the door down
> and finds Paula in the
> >crib.
> >
>
>*--------------------------------------------------------------
> >The last Salinger manuscript - consisting of two
> (2) quotations about Nazi
> >Germany - is one page, typed, undated. The first
> quotation concerns the
> >virtues of native German rhubarb over the "alien
> lemon." The quotation is
> >drawn from the "Nazi Tract, New Bases of Social
> Research" (sic).
> >
> >The second quotation is from the New Yorker, May 1,
> 1948, about a crematorium
> >built in Chelmo, Poland specifically for children.
> The Nazis burned the
> bodies
> >of more than 600,000 children there.
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Received on Wed Aug 13 11:31:36 2003