Re: Salinger's Letters To Be Auctioned

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Thu, 13 May 1999 02:53:56 -0700 (PDT) 

I curse us, one and all:

May we all have REALLY INTERESTING A&E Biographies when we're gone.
Until then, suck it up & shut up; it'll all be gone soon.

Thor


>Salinger's Letters To Be Auctioned
>
>..c The Associated Press
>
>  NEW YORK (AP) -- Fourteen letters by J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author
>of
>``The Catcher in the Rye,'' are to be auctioned at Sotheby's, The New
>York
>Times reported today.
>
>The letters were written between April 1972 and August 1973 to author
>Joyce
>Maynard, with whom Salinger had a nine-month romance. Their relationship
>began when she was an 18-year-old Yale University student and he was 53.
>The
>auction is set for June 22.
>
>Ms. Maynard quit school to live in an isolated cottage in Cornish, N.H.,
>with
>Salinger, who has shunned public life. He ended their relationship in
>1973.
>
>Ms. Maynard, who for 25 years declined to discuss the relationship, last
>year
>revealed Salinger's eccentricities and fixations in a memoir, ``At Home
>in
>the World.'' She plans to sell the letters, which run the gamut from
>formal
>to smitten to impersonal, reflecting the course of their relationship.
>
>Salinger, now 80 and still obsessively private, last wrote for
>publication in
>1965.
>
>Ms. Maynard said the decision to sell the letters, which will be offered
>as a
>lot, was financial. They are expected to fetch up to $80,000, Sotheby's
>officials said.
>
>``I'd rather put my children through college than own a box full of
>Salinger's letters,'' said Ms. Maynard, who is divorced and has three
>children. ``They were a piece of my past that I've finished with, and I'd
>
>rather use them to help support my family.''
>
>Salinger's lawyer and literary agent declined to discuss the sale of the
>38
>pages of letters, which are typed or written in ink or pencil on typing
>paper, yellow lined paper and a card from the New York Public Library.
>
>Salinger, as is his custom, was unavailable for comment. He said in a
>deposition in the 1980s, though, when an author wanted to use some of his
>
>other letters for a book: ``Privacy is privacy. Letters were meant for a
>certain pair of eyes and those eyes alone.''
>
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