Two typed letters, signed "xx JDS" and "JDS", to poet Celia Bland, 17 May and 26 August 1985
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Windsor, VT, 1985. 3 pages (279 x 216 and 216 x 140 mm) on yellow typing paper, signed, addressed to Celia Bland in Oxford, England, and Northeast Harbor, Maine. 4to. Light horizontal and vertical folds. Typed envelopes. Housed in a half blue morocco clamshell case. 3 pages (279 x 216 and 216 x 140 mm) on yellow typing paper, signed, addressed to Celia Bland in Oxford, England, and Northeast Harbor, Maine. 4to. J. D. Salinger first met poet Celia Bland when she was an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College with a friend who lived near Salinger in New Hampshire. "Where, when, and what time of day or night were you born ...? (I play, not very seriously, but I do play with the planets, the moon, the sun. Trivial, I know, but I like to know where Jupiter, particularly, was at the birth of anybody who shoots something to me in the mail.)" In the 1970s Salinger wrote a story about an astrologer, and his research made him into an enthusiast who drew up the charts of his family and friends. Salinger goes on to say he is traveling shortly to attend his son Matthew's wedding. "I loathe airports, hotels, most forms motion of any kind." He then relates a misadventure in trying to visit his daughter Peggy in England, only to discover she had gone to the U.S. for a few days: "Had a nice week in London alone anyway. Phoned no one, saw no one. Hunted down some out-of-print books, but not successfully - I always do better, best, in Boston on old books. Went to theater often, not out of love
- Year: 1985
- Binding: unknown
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