1592997900000 1321607726000 Standard Record object-110000084 1747159852528 1684840903000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110000084 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000084 525b071e-570d-3dc2-9d17-b8bb80afe031 6 person reference agent-188369 adlib-agent-188369 612486bc-1309-35b6-a95f-5da8661f195f Eagleson, Janet content description Typed letter signed in type, "Chick," 2pp, 8½ x 5¾ in., on goldenrod paper, with envelope postmarked from Vermont, April 12, 1981. Addressed to Janet. Salinger opens the letter in typical humorous fashion, "Snug, provident to have the No. Berwick phone number, and Mom says she’s going to sew it into the hem of my pinafore," admits " I have whole drawerfuls of gloomy doubts, myself, that anyone ever comes on entirely natural with anybody," and sympathizes with her frustrations over her brother’s nutritional choices and their repercussions, "…Still, I dislike and dread feeling under par, inordinately tired or fragile, as I did most of my life, and I can’t imagine not deploring and despising outright stupid or unnecessary forms of abuse of these bodies we appear to live in, reside in…There has or ought to be a middle ground between the granola eaters and the Yodel and coke consumers. The bad fact is, it’s no cinch to find out what one definitely…thrive[s] on…with the enemy, the real menace, the mind." Salinger closes the letter on an upbeat, "Must close, Sister. May St. Nora (Patron Saint of the Lower Colon) be with you and the Mother Superior” Robinson/Salinger/3 1 accession number Robinson/Salinger/3 110000084 priref 110000084 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000084 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000084 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1981 1981 1981-04-12 reference agent-188368 adlib-agent-188368 361a645a-27b1-3e92-82c3-733b44b27c06 Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) history note 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. Salinger to Janet Eagleson object OBJECT