Raincoats

From: Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 12:51:19 EDT

There are only two mentions of raincoats in Salinger's 22 uncollected stories. Am I missing any from the widely released stories?

>From THIS SANDWICH HAS NO MAYONNAISE
I feel my elbow getting wet and bring it in out of the downpour. Who swiped my raincoat? With all my letters in the left-hand pocket. My letters from Red, from Phoebe, from Holden. From Holden. Aw, listen, I don't care about the raincoat being swiped, but how about leaving my letters alone? He's only nineteen years old, my brother is, and the dope can't reduce a thing to a humour, kill it off with a sarcasm, can't do anything but listen hectically to the maladjusted little apparatus he wears for a heart. My missing-in-action brother. Why don't they leave people's raincoats alone?

FROM HAPWORTH 16, 1924
Please send anything interesting on human civilization well before the Greeks, although quite after the list of civilizations in the pocket of my former raincoat with the unfortunate gash in the shoulder, which Walt humorously declined to wear in public.

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