Salinger, J.D.

REMINISCING ABOUT WORLD WAR two SERVICE IN THE SOUTH, in a short typedletter, signed 26 November 1969, from Cornish, N.H., to Randy Troup inAthens, Georgia.

The reclusive author of CATCHER IN THE RYE suggests a topic for writing in the first note. In full:"Thanks for the nice letter. Athens, Georgia. I knew it was there, which is pretty good for a New York-born New Hampshirite. Back in 1942 I was stationed at an Air Corps field in Bainbridge, Ga., and Athens was a crosscountry flight stop. But I don't remember it. Bainbridge wasn't exactly Tara, as I recall. It's odd that nobody's written about how G.I.'s saw America in the war years. We got shuttled from State to State, and never saw a thing. Just bars and movie marquees and the backs of houses. Good wishes." Ending the correspondence in the second note, Salinger writes, in full: "Because of time and the general heaviness of mail, I'm afraid I'm at best a one-shot letter answerer, and so, with my genuine apologies, I'll put in the request that you forswear to send me any journals or such - I simply can't get it read. My thanks, nonetheless, and best wishes." Correspondence by Salinger is uncommon in trade. In the past 45 years, only 13 letters and the Joyce Maynard archive, an additional 14 letters catalogued as a single lot, have sold at auction (ABPC 1955-2001). 4to. 1 page, approximately 100 words. Accompanied by a second typed noted, initialed by Salinger 4 December 1969 (4to, 1 page, approximately 50 words), to the same correspondent asking that the exchange be broken off. Both folded for mailing, but very good and accompanied by the two mailing envelopes.

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