Subject: Re: 22 uncollected stories
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 22:20:21 GMT
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:37:15PM -0500, Brooks Bradley Lambert-Sluder wrote:
> Are the Princeton Library Archives open to the public or must you be
> affiliated with the university to have access?
The archives are open to the public in general; it helps to have some
university or research affiliation or, barring that, a letter of
reference from a scholar. The few times I used the facilities, I was
able to do so based on showing my NYU faculty card.
> And also, how many of the 22 stories are available at the archives
Not all of them, from what I recall. It's not a Salinger archive. It's
a Story Magazine archive, which contains Salinger material as well as
work by a lot of other writers. When I used it, they actually handed
me a file box and I stumbled across some original letters from Norman
Mailer and William Saroyan. I've heard that they have tightened up on
things since then....
Consider taking a look at Jack Sublette's J.D. Salinger: An Annotated
Bibliography. I think it's out of print now, but there are copies in
major research libraries. And you should be in luck if the shelves
haven't been plundered. According to Harvard's library system:
AUTHOR Sublette, Jack R.
TITLE J.D. Salinger : an annotated bibliography, 1938-1981 / Jack R.
Sublette.
PUB. INFO New York : Garland Pub., 1984.
DESCRIPTION xvii, 257 p. ; 23 cm.
SERIES Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 436
LOCATION Widener: WID-LC PS3537.A426 Z997 x, 1984
[and regarding circulation information:]
Sublette, Jack R. J.D. Salinger : an annotated bibliography, 1938-1981 /
Widener: WID-LC PS3537.A426 Z997 x, 1984
====> ......................For use only in library at Widener.
> --and incidentally, why Princeton?
> Did J.D. Salinger have some association to the school, or what?
It's where the Story archives went to live, and they had a lot of JDS
material -- Salinger had a long personal relationship with Story
editor Whit Burnett, until Salinger pretty much severed the
relationship in the 1960s.
HOWEVER ... lucky for you, Harvard (like many good research libraries)
happens to have something that might or might not be accessible to
you:
AUTHOR Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-
TITLE [Short stories. Selections]
The complete uncollected short stories of J.D. Salinger.
PUB. INFO [California? : s.n., 1974]
DESCRIPTION 2 v. (88 p.; 107 p.) 21 cm.
LOCATION Houghton: *AC95.Sa336.974c
Original printed and illustrated white paper covers; both
volumes in a cloth case, 22.5 cm.
Library has: v. 1-2
This is the original pirated edition that caused the ruckus in 1974
and led JDS to giving the New York Times a rare full-length interview.
I don't know whether this is in a special collection that is
restricted to you, but you might want to try it out. It contains the
22 stories. I'm fairly certain that you wouldn't be allowed to
photocopy it (most rare-book collections are pretty constrained in
what you can copy), but if you are allowed access, you could read the
stories on-site.
--tim o'connor
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