Subject: Re: Too Bad, So Sad
From: James Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 08:37:12 GMT
heh...I bid $3.95, but didn't win.
Sigh.
Jim
Cecilia Baader wrote:
> >From the wire services. Gee, isn't this a dirty rotten shame. You mean
> to tell me that none of you bid?
>
> --C.
>
> ============
>
> 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 But the current collection, billed as the ``largest cache of unpublished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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