{"admin":{"added":1592997900000,"created":1321608997000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110000085","indexed":1747159852444,"modified":1684840932000,"processed":1747159409017,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110000085","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000085","uuid":"c312847a-f152-3961-8db5-5efe37223b31","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 in type, \"Scott Weinfeld, Jr.,\" 2pp, 11 x 8\u00bd\", on goldenrod paper, with envelope postmarked from Vermont, May 1, 1981. Addressed to Janet. Salinger responds to a short letter from Janet dated April 28, 1981 [a copy of which is part of this archive] in which she expresses concern that she hasn\u2019t heard from him. Janet tells of consoling Sarah \"who just last night broke the news that her father, married just 1\u00bd years ago, is separating. His wife\u2019s idea\u2026I can see Sarah\u2019s vision getting clearer\u2026regarding her father. The hero is dead, to be replaced\u2026by a very mottled and scared guy.\" Salinger responds that he is \"O.K.\" then launches into a tirade about unsolicited mail, \"\u2026just too damn many pieces of curiously rotten mail on the desk, most of them from professed I-love-life types, who are second in my heart only to \u2026healthier folk who love to blurt out that they love people\u2026I throw most of that crap out before I leave the P.O., but sometimes, out of stupidity or because some goof is checking me out as I stand reading, I shove the mess into my briefcase and take it home, which is the worst thing to do with it. When it reaches a pile of a certain size\u2026it automatically paralyzes me for days or weeks\u2026I\u2019d never even vaguely anticipated the freakishness, the coarse and really brutally self-interested incursion of unsolicited mail \u2026the grosser ninety-five percent slowly kills.\" He goes on, \"Have never known how to cope with it\u2026thanks to the press and the adorable Time-Life Syndicate, it\u2019s known where I hole up, and most fishy mail arrives here licketysplit\u2026\" Salinger offers some advice, then admits his dread of having workers on his property, \"I,m having a woodshed built, starting tomorrow. I dread like poison having affable workers on the premises again. So strenuous trying to be not-a-bad-guy-really for a whole damn week\u2026the all-around hideousness of constant arrivals and presences of alien creatures\u2026\" ."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Robinson\/Salinger\/4","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Robinson\/Salinger\/4"},{"priref":"110000085","type":"priref","value":"110000085"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000085","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000085"}],"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":"1981-04-12"}],"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"}}