Lot 239
Salinger, Jerome David "J.D." (1919-2010) Reclusive author best known for his 1951 novel Catcher in the Rye. Typed Letter Signed ("JDS"), one page, 11 x 8½ in., Cornish, N.H., Dec. 4, 1969. To Sarah Hunter of Marshalltown, Iowa. In part: "…All letters from readers are hard to answer, and usually impossible, but the ones from self-identified aspiring writers are the easiest, because there's nothing whatever to be said to people who want to write professionally. That is, nothing fair or helpful to be said….The only real service anyone can offer to young writers is to leave them strictly along to stew properly in their own juices. No kind or unkind words going out to them. Above all, no literary talk, no opinions about books, characters, styles. No hearty literary exchanges…." Fine. Accompanied by transmittal envelope.
Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000.
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