SALINGER, J[EROME] D[AVID]. Typed letter signed ("J.D. Salinger") to Mrs. Virginia Aigletinger in San Francisco; Stamford, Conn., 27 January 1948. 1 page, 8vo, single-spaced, signed in dark brown ink, with original envelope with addresses typed by Salinger . A rare and unusually early letter: "...I'm afraid I'm not one of the Salingers who used to live near you on Steiner Street -- I've never been to San Francisco -- but I did indeed once know an Aigletinger. When I was going to grammar school in New York, a Miss Aigletinger was my eighth grade teacher. I didn't realize until 'The Inverted Forest' [a long Salinger story that had just appeared in the December 1947 issue of Cosmopolitan , prompting the recipient of this letter to write to Salinger] had long been under way that I was using her name. She deserved much better, actually. My Miss Aigletinger was a kind and gifted woman, not at all like the soupy number in my story. I can't promise to accommodate your daughter Nini with (1) a best seller [he did, with The Catcher in the Rye , 1951] and (2) a heroine named Aigletinger, but I'll certainly keep both requests in mind..." That January Salinger's ground-breaking story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- his first fiction dealing with the Glass family -- appeared in The New Yorker .
SALINGER, J[EROME] D[AVID]. Typed letter signed ("J.D. Salinger") to Mrs. Virginia Aigletinger in San Francisco; Stamford, Conn., 27 January 1948. 1 page, 8vo, single-spaced, signed in dark brown ink, with original envelope with addresses typed by Salinger . A rare and unusually early letter: "...I'm afraid I'm not one of the Salingers who used to live near you on Steiner Street -- I've never been to San Francisco -- but I did indeed once know an Aigletinger. When I was going to grammar school in New York, a Miss Aigletinger was my eighth grade teacher. I didn't realize until 'The Inverted Forest' [a long Salinger story that had just appeared in the December 1947 issue of Cosmopolitan , prompting the recipient of this letter to write to Salinger] had long been under way that I was using her name. She deserved much better, actually. My Miss Aigletinger was a kind and gifted woman, not at all like the soupy number in my story. I can't promise to accommodate your daughter Nini with (1) a best seller [he did, with The Catcher in the Rye , 1951] and (2) a heroine named Aigletinger, but I'll certainly keep both requests in mind..." That January Salinger's ground-breaking story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" -- his first fiction dealing with the Glass family -- appeared in The New Yorker .
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