TLS signed "Jerry," two pages, 5.5 x 8.5, August 9, 1982. Salinger writes to Janet Eagleson, a friend and sometime houseguest at his New Hampshire home, opening with some comments on aging. In part: "The more I age, senesce, the more convinced I am that our chances of getting through to any intact sets of reasons for the way things go are nil...The only valid datum, anywhere, I suspect, is the one the few gnanis [practicioners of Gnani yoga, aka "yoga of wisdom"] adamantly put forward: that we're not who or what we thing [sic] we are, not persons at all, but susceptible to myriad penalties for thinking we're persons and minds."
He offers some updates on his family and life in New Hampshire, and reflects caustically on politics and contemporary liberal culture: "I agree with you, of course, about the No Nukes bunch. Quiche and Volvo liberals, right. Liberals all, shitheads mostly, I agree absolutely." He closes with a mention of "legal action," stemming from a claim by journalist Stephen Kunes that he had conducted an interview with Salinger—which, naturally, never took place. Kunes attempted to peddle the fictional interview to People magazine, whereupon Salinger sued him for a variety of fraudulent activities. Though Salinger's literary activities following his withdrawal from public life in the early 1960s remained shrouded in mystery, many of the interests he reveals in the letter-among them Eastern philosophy, nutrition, and film-have been well documented. Both pages are dramatically double-matted and framed (by removable corner tabs) with a portrait of Salinger and many artistic extras, a photo of the cover Catcher In The Rye, and a biographical plaque, to an overall size of 38.5 x 25. In very fine condition.
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