833. J.D. SALINGER (b. 1919) American author who established his reputation on the basis of a single novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), whose principal character, Holden Caulfield, epitomized the growing pains of a generation of high school and college students. Now a virtual recluse. T.L.S. "J", 2pp, 8vo., Windsor, VT, June 28, 1981, to Janet Eagleson with whom Salinger had a well-publicized affair. In part: "...The sight of summer in full swing has put me off ever since I can remember. Oddly, I work nicely or at least normally amidst all the greening and flowering and burgeoning. But correspondence falls off, goes to pot...on top of everything, the woodshed crew...have been here...leaving me rattly and pale, but with a shelter of sorts for some twenty cords of wood. As ugly a structure as any I've seen, with lots of shitty little space-filling fancy scroll-y crosspieces, said to be 'functional'. No doubt it will take an esthetic turn for the better with a couple of good hard winters. I took the morning bus into Boston...to do what I almost never do...went to see some particular pictures in a gallery. The Pissarro exhibit...Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro...I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors...Hope to see yez [sic] one of these limbo summer days...". Salinger closes with an intriguing postscript: "Have been in New York (I am the Man, I suffered, I was There.)". Accompanied by the original typed transmittal envelope. Fine. $2,500 - 3,000