Subject: RE: Too Bad, So Sad
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 08:22:07 GMT
this is sad ...
but then again, is Margaret a real fan?
Does anyone think this was out of respect for JDS or disinterest?
I was glad to read that good ol' Peter Norton did such a unselfish thing of returning the Maynard letters, I did not know that.
Z.
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From: "owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org" <owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org> on behalf of "Cecilia Baader" <ceciliabaader@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:59 AM
To: "bananafish@roughdraft.org" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Too Bad, So Sad
>From the wire services. Gee, isn't this a dirty rotten shame. You mean
to tell me that none of you bid?
--C.
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Wednesday December 12 5:38 PM ET
J.D. Salinger Letters Fail to Sell at NY Auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A collection of 32 letters written by reclusive ``The
Catcher in the Rye'' author J.D. Salinger to his daughter failed to sell
at auction on Wednesday.
Sotheby's had hoped the letters would go for between $250,000 to $350,000.
A collection of Salinger's love letters sold for $157,000 in June 1999.
But the current collection, billed as the ``largest cache of unpublished
Salinger letters to ever appear at auction,'' failed to fetch the minimum
price agreed by Sotheby's and Margaret Salinger, the author's only
daughter.
``There had been interest at the time of exhibition, collectors had made
appointments to see them,'' said Sotheby's spokesman Matthew Weigman.
``But when the big moment comes, if they're in the room and no hands go
up, they may feel like they could get a better price at a private sale.''
Weigman said the 43 pages of correspondence, including notes written on
hotel stationary and postcards from New York and London, may be sold
privately.
Salinger has not written for publication since 1965 and has gone to court
on several occasions to keep details about his life from becoming public.
His letters would be one of the few chances literary collectors or
academics have had to examine his private life.
Margaret Salinger's decision to sell the letters, written over a 35-year
period starting in 1958 when she was 2, follows the publication of her
tell-all autobiography, ``Dream Catcher: A Memoir,'' and a decade of
estrangement from her father.
The previous collection of Salinger letters up for sale were written to
Joyce Maynard, who had a brief affair with the author. The love letters
sold by Maynard, who discussed her affair with Salinger in the 1998 book
``At Home in the World,'' fetched nearly $157,000 at an auction held two
and a half years ago.
Peter Norton, a retired computer software entrepreneur, bought those
letters and immediately declared his intent to return them to the author.
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