1592997900000 1321608997000 Standard Record object-110000085 1747159852444 1684840932000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110000085 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000085 c312847a-f152-3961-8db5-5efe37223b31 6 person reference agent-188369 adlib-agent-188369 612486bc-1309-35b6-a95f-5da8661f195f Eagleson, Janet content description Typed letter signed in type, "Scott Weinfeld, Jr.," 2pp, 11 x 8½", 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’t heard from him. Janet tells of consoling Sarah "who just last night broke the news that her father, married just 1½ years ago, is separating. His wife’s idea…I can see Sarah’s vision getting clearer…regarding her father. The hero is dead, to be replaced…by a very mottled and scared guy." Salinger responds that he is "O.K." then launches into a tirade about unsolicited mail, "…just 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 …healthier folk who love to blurt out that they love people…I 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…it automatically paralyzes me for days or weeks…I’d never even vaguely anticipated the freakishness, the coarse and really brutally self-interested incursion of unsolicited mail …the grosser ninety-five percent slowly kills." He goes on, "Have never known how to cope with it…thanks to the press and the adorable Time-Life Syndicate, it’s known where I hole up, and most fishy mail arrives here licketysplit…" 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…the all-around hideousness of constant arrivals and presences of alien creatures…" . Robinson/Salinger/4 1 accession number Robinson/Salinger/4 110000085 priref 110000085 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000085 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110000085 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