{"admin":{"added":1592997900000,"created":1321541570000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110000082","indexed":1747159852541,"modified":1684840852000,"processed":1747159409017,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110000082","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000082","uuid":"4966b689-4fb4-361a-8761-e83ded7d06ec","version":6},"agents":[{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-188369","uid":"adlib-agent-188369","uuid":"612486bc-1309-35b6-a95f-5da8661f195f"},"summary_title":"Eagleson, Janet"}],"content":{"description":[{"type":"content description","value":"Typed Letter Signed, \"Jerry,\" 2pp, 8\u00bd x 5\u00bd in., on goldenrod paper, with envelope postmarked from Vermont, March 12, 1981. Addressed to Mary Janet. Salinger attempts to explain a perhaps offensive remark in a previous letter then launches into a complex astrological reason for his ability and \"comfort\" in expressing his thoughts to her, \"God knows I didn\u2019t mean your mind is light or transitory, etc., but that one\u2019s enthusiasms about astrology must in the end be, since it is so far from what passes in English for \"reality.\" I just meant that Astrology, for me, is a prop and a tool for the dream we all live in, and that I didn\u2019t think its importance, for you, would be different from what it is for me\u2026I know several Leos pretty well, but have never known a Leo with a Capricorn ascendant\u2026For that matter, I don\u2019t know anyone else who has anything like your horoscope. Selfishly speaking, it\u2019s phenomenally easy on me to type and mail thoughts to someone whose ascend. conjuncts my sun, moon, and Venus, whose Jupiter trine my sun, moon, and Venus, whose Venus conj. my Pluto and Jupiter in the Seventh House, and fascinatingly, a lot more than that\u2026\""}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Robinson\/Salinger\/1","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Robinson\/Salinger\/1"},{"priref":"110000082","type":"priref","value":"110000082"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000082","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000082"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1981,"latest":1981,"value":"1981-03-12"}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-188368","uid":"adlib-agent-188368","uuid":"361a645a-27b1-3e92-82c3-733b44b27c06"},"summary_title":"Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David)"}]}]},"note":[{"type":"history note","value":"Archive of Salinger's letters to Eagleson sold by Skinner Auctioneers, Massachusetts in 2006. In 2010  Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc. (Los Angeles CA) sold a smaller group of letters that had been included in Skinner's auction, of which this is one."}],"summary_title":"Salinger to Janet Eagleson","title":[{"value":"Salinger to Janet Eagleson"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}