TLS signed “J.,” two pages, 5.5 x 8.5, June 25, 1981. Letter to Janet Eagleson, 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 this alien greening and flowering and burgeoning…The woodshed crew, hammerers and power-tool users, have been here, have come and gone, 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…I took the early morning bus in to Boston one morning to do what I almost never do, or do only when Travelling: went to see some particular pictures in a gallery. The Pissarro exhibit. Had a strong notion of checking to see if you might be free…but then I remembered I owed a friend in Boston, a chronic ail-er and manic depressive, a courtesy call…When or ever was there anything good or easy in a threeway conversation. Anyway, the whole handful (of hundreds) of the Pissarro pictures are wonderful…Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro, which wasn’t exactly indelibly fine, but Deneuve herself maybe was, or came close. 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. I’ll coast on the Deneuve performance for the rest of the summer. She was always a good actress, but had never seen her with all this much restraint and finesse.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Salinger was indeed a movie buff and owned an extensive collection of classics, with his favorites including Gigi, The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps, and the comedies of W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Bros. A wonderful, warm letter to a close friend commenting on both his reclusive country life and attempts to venture out into public. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA.
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