LOT 239 J. D. Salinger Archive Fantastic Content
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Salinger J. D. J. D. Salinger Archive Fantastic ContentJ. D. SALINGER, small archive of letters between Salinger and Rose-Ellen Currie, ca. 1955. 5 pp. + 2 envelopes.Highlights and Excerpts: -J. D. Salinger, Typed Letter Signed, to Rose-Ellen Currie, November 14, 1955, Windsor, Vermont. 1 p. + envelope, 8.5" x 11". Expected folds; some staining; envelope torn on opening."Claire is joyful and beautifully protuberant  our baby is due within the next two weeks  and I'm at work every day in my new and very cozy little work house." "Do me a favor, Rose-Ellen, please. In the Prajna-paramita-hridaya Sutra, there is a mantram - in fact, the Âpeerless Mantram'  which reads, ÂGate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi, svaha!' Get the correct pronunciation of it for me from Dr. Suzuki. It must be exact, to the syllable..." "So you're writing and sending things to editors. I don't know what to say. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, according to somebody Chinese.... If you can, Rose-Ellen, be as detached as possible  Bhagavad Gita-style  from the Âfruits' - the results. Good or bad." Margaret Salinger was born December 10, 1955. Dr. Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) was a Japanese author of books on Buddhism, Zen, and Shin and taught at Columbia University from 1952 to 1957.-Rose-Ellen Currie, Manuscript Draft Letter, to J. D. Salinger, n.d. 2 pp., 8.5" x 11". Expected folds; very good. "This is probably foolhardy because I'm very careful who I let see my handwriting. Only Muriel Stafford has seen it this year and then only because the rest of the copy department had itself analyzed and I don't want to be a spoil sport." "Im gloomy about Zen and I cant say exactly why and I dont expect you to say anything about it. please don't say anything about it. I've never known anything to become a part of, well more than a part of a life so quickly." Muriel Stafford (1904-1994) was a famed handwriting analyst, who had a newspaper column from the 1930s to the 1960s in which she analyzed famous and ordinary people's handwriting.-Rose-Ellen Currie, Typed Letter Signed in Japanese, to J. D. Salinger, n.d. 1 p. + 1 p. draft. Expected folds; very good. "I'm so happy about you. And generally on more cheerful terms with myself and everybody." "My goodwill is steadfast and enduring and I'm wild to see your endive. But as you know I'm a rabbity sort and really only semi-comfortable lowering notes in baskets like Emily D. So I don't know how I'd make out face to face. Not so very good probably. But mull it. Maybe I could manage it heavily veiled."J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) was born in Manhattan into a Jewish family, though his mother was a convert. He graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania in 1936 and attended New York University for part of a year. He studied the meat-importing business in Poland and Austria, but left just a month before Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Returning to the United States, he briefly attended Ursinus College and Columbia University. He published his first short story in the magazine "Story" in 1940. He began submitting short stories to "The New Yorker", which rejected most, but accepted "Slight Rebellion off Madison" about a disaffected teenager named Holden Caulfield. However, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor left the story "unpublishable," and it did not appear until 1946. Salinger was drafted in 1942 and saw combat in Europe on D-Day, and at the Battle of the Bulge and other battles. He later served in counter-intelligence in the interrogation of prisoners and in Denazification duty in Germany for six months after the war ended. In 1948, he published "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," which received critical acclaim and earned him a contract with "The New Yorker" for future work. A 1949 film adaptation of one of his short stories failed, and Salinger never permitted film adaptations to be made from his stories. He published his most famous work, "The Catcher in the Rye", in 1951, about protagonist Holden Caulfield's experiences in New York City after his expulsion from a college preparatory school. Although it was widely taught in schools, other schools banned it for its use of swear words and coarse language. Salinger became an adherent of Hinduism in 1952 and gradually withdrew from public view, publishing only a few stories for the rest of the decade. In the early 1960s, he published two volumes of short stories previously published in "The New Yorker". His last published work appeared in 1965. For the next forty-five years, he lived a reclusive life in New Hampshire.Rose-Ellen Currie (1930-2012) was born in New York, the daughter of an electrician and his Scottish wife. In the late 1950s, she wrote and published several short stories, including at least one in "The New Yorker". Around the same time, she left the manuscript of her first novel in a taxi and never recovered it. She worked as a copywriter and vice president for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency for twenty-four years. Currie published her only novel, "Available Light", in 1986, and a collection of short stories, "Moses Supposes", in 1994. This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.WE PROVIDE IN-HOUSE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE.
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