Re: Salinger Unpublished & Unavailable Manuscripts

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Jim

ANELLO Michael J wrote:

>UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS - (7)
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>1. "The Children's Echelon." - (26 pp. of double-spaced typescript with the
>by-line J. D. Salinger). A two-part story in the form of eleven diary entries
>by Bernice Herndon with the first entry on January 12, her 18th birthday, and
>the last on March 25 of the same but unspecified year. With the war in the
>background, Bernice changes her opinion about almost everything she
>mentions-her friends, family, and the war. In one entry, Bernice, like Holden
>Caulfield, mentions that she loved to watch children at the merry-go-round.
>Princeton's Firestone Library.
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>2. "The Magic Foxhole." - (21 pp. of double-spaced typescript). Told in first
>person by a compulsive-talking soldier, identified only as Garrity, to another
>hitchhiking soldier called Mac, whom Garrity has picked up in a jeep near "the
>Beach" soon after D-Day, this story recounts Garrity's association with a
>soldier named Lewis Gardner, who suffers severe battle fatigue. Gardner now
>stands on the beach and waits to be evacuated. As the story ends, Garrity,
>presumably eager to tell this story again or perhaps another one about a
>nurse, yells to another hitchhiker. The dramatic monologue-like story
>suggests that Garrity suffers from battle fatigue, but to a lesser degree than
>Gardner. Gardner is wrecked by the war. In combat, he keeps on meeting a
>ghost soldier dressed in a strange, futuristic uniform. Gardner interrogates
>him and discovers that the 'soldier' is his own yet-to-be-born son, a boy
>called Earl. Earl is now aged twenty-one and is a combatant, it seems, in
>World War III. Gardner decides that he must kill this phantom offspring: If
>Earl dies, maybe the next war will never happen. The story ends with Gardner,
>still hallucinating, confined in a military hospital, a victim of what the
>authorities call battle fatigue. Princeton's Firestone Library.
>
>3. "Two Lonely Men." - (27 pp. of double-spaced typescript). An unnamed
>narrator, who worked at Ground School as a Morse Code Instructor at a United
>States Army base in the South, tells the story of a developing friendship
>between Master Sergeant Charles Maydee and Captain Huggins. Their friendship
>grows with nightly games of gin rummy until Captain Huggins sets his wife up
>in a nearby hotel and moves in with her. Maydee and Huggins do not see much
>of each other then until Huggins' wife reveals to her husband that she has
>been having an affair three times a week with Bernie Farr. Maydee promises to
>intercede with Huggins' wife, but Maydee apparently begins having an affair
>with her (a situation similar to that of Arthur, Lee, and Joanie in Pretty
>Mouth and Green My Eyes). As the story ends, Maydee tells the narrator that
>he has asked for a transfer because he doesn't like Huggins. Princeton's
>Firestone Library.
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>4. "The Birthday Boy." - (9 pp.). The "Birthday Boy" manuscript is nine pages
>long and undated. The story is set in a hospital. A young man, Ray, is
>visited by his girlfriend, Ethel, on his 22nd birthday. Ray is recovering from
>an illness that, while unspecified, seems to have something to do with
>alcoholism. The story consists primarily of dialogue. Ray gropes Ethel, then
>tries to persuade her to bring him liquor so he may "test himself." When she
>refuses, he curses her then orders her to leave. The story concludes with
>Ethel riding the hospital elevator to the ground floor, chilled "in all the
>damp spots." The ms has several editorial corrections on the first page. One
>note reads "Hold. Consult." Another note, partially erased, asks that the ms
>be "set up in 12 point." The ms also has Salinger's 1133 Park Ave address on
>its first page. Univ of TX at Austin.
>
>5. "Paula." - (10 pp.). The manuscript is untitled, undated and has a number
>of authorial edits and emendations. The manuscript is less a story than a
>series of scenes not yet sewn together. The central characters are a couple,
>Frank and Paula Hancher. Paula claims to be pregnant and decides that she
>will stay in bed the entire course of her pregnancy. She directs her husband
>to tell friends and neighbors that she's gone to help her ailing sister in
>Ohio. Months pass. The Hanchers continue the ruse for nearly a year.
>Ultimately, Frank comes home, finds the bedroom door locked. Paula claims
>she's having the child. Shortly thereafter, she claims she's had the child
>and now needs a crib, baby clothes, etc. However, she won't let Frank in the
>room. Frank provides the items she needs. Then, several days later,
>frustrated that he's still not being let inside, he breaks the door down and
>finds Paula in the crib. Univ of TX at Austin. Donald Fiene notes that this
>story was sold to Stag magazine in 1942.
>
>6. "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans." - (12 pp. of double-spaced
>typescript). Written from the point of view of Vincent Caulfield, older
>brother of Holden and Phoebe, and with references to a dead brother named
>Kenneth, the story focuses on a conversation between Vincent and his
>mother-Mary Moriarity, and actress. Their talk occurs because Vincent found
>his questionnaire from the draft board that his mother had hidden. The
>conversation, which involves Mary's concern for Vincent and Vincent's concern
>for his family, ends with a reference to her wanting to keep a child from
>going over a cliff and Vincent's feeling sorry for various people just as
>Holden misses various people at the end of The Catcher in the Rye. Princeton's
>Firestone Library.
>
>7. "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls." - (18 pp. of double-spaced typescript).
>Like the narrators in Sherwood Anderson's stories I'm a Fool and I Want to
>Know Why who tell their tales because they want to set things straight,
>Vincent Caulfield writes of his relationship with one of his younger brothers,
>Kenneth, and of Kenneth's death. Included in the story are Kenneth's
>expression of love for Holden and Phoebe, Kenneth's anger at an adult for
>calling Holden crazy, and a letter to Kenneth from Holden at Camp Goodcrest,
>in which Holden complains about life and people at camp. Even though he does
>not call them phonies, Holden cites the hypocrisy of the adults at camp.
>Donald Fiene comments as follows on this story: "Sold to Woman's Home
>Companion in 1947 or 1948. [According to Knox Burger, editor of Gold Medal
>Books and former fiction editor of Collier's, the publisher objected to the
>story as too 'downbeat'-after the fiction editor of WHC had bought it.]
>Later, 1950 or 1951, the same man rejected it for Collier's too. But at about
>this time Salinger withdrew the story, which is an early experiment with the
>Glass family and concerns the death of one of the younger children. Princeton
>library.
>
>UNAVAILABLE MANUSCRIPTS - (20 titles)
>
>1. "The Survivors." 1940.
>2. "The Fishermen." 1941.
>3. "The Lovely Dead Girl At Table Six." 1941.
>4. "The Kissless Life of Reilly." 1942.
>5. "The Broken Children." 1943.
>6. "Rex Passard on the Planet Mars." 1943.
>7. "Bitsy." 1943.
>8. "Am I Banging My Head Against the Wall?" 1943.
>9. "Total War Diary." 1944.
>10. "Boy Standing in Tennessee." 1944.
>11. "What Babe Saw" 1944. (or "Ooh-La-La!")
>12. "The Male Goodbye." 1946.
>13. "A Young Man in a Stuffed Shirt." 1959.
>14. "What Got Into Curtis in the Woodshed." 19??. A story which involves
>"Curtis" punching out all the windows in the "woodshed."
>15. "The Daughter of the Late, Great Man." 1959.
>16. "Lunch For Three." 19??.
>17. "Monologue For A Watery Highball." 19??.
>18. "I Went To School With Adolf Hitler." 19??.
>19. "A Summer Accident." 19??
>20. "The Boy In The People Shooting Hat." 19??.
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>...wouldn't it be great...to run into a copy of a book called 27 Stories by J.
>D. Salinger somewhere on the internet or local bookstore?
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