Subject: RE: Too Bad, So Sad
From: I am your son Peter (horanp@kenyon.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 21:33:26 GMT
That Peter Norton character did the right thing, I think.
P.
>===== Original Message From Cecilia Baader <ceciliabaader@yahoo.com> =====
>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But the current collection, billed as the ``largest cache of unpublished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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