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J.D. Salinger TLS

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J.D. Salinger TLS
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Rare typed letter signed ''J.D. Salinger'', dated 15 September 1989 from his home in Cornish, New Hampshire. Salinger writes to Nardi Reeder Campion, the sister of a soldier with whom Salinger served during WWII in the midst of writing ''Catcher in the Rye.'' With original typed envelope. In part, ''Thank you for sending that along to me. Really very kind of you. And I would, yes, be most interested to see the tape you mentioned. Be assured that I'll send it back to you very carefully. Again, thank you. I believe I just missed serving under General Reeder. I was with the 12th Infantry, though, yes. Which is to say, a bit more accurately, that I rode along with the 12th, less, or so I felt for the most part, as a useful participant than as a kind of irritable passenger whose peculiar training and talents, if any, were of pretty much token applicability once the landings were a fact. Technically, I was a member of the small CIC detachment assigned to the Fourth Division, and we came in with the Division Hq bunch, but some few days later - I believe very shortly after Colonel Reeder was wounded and evacuated - another non-com and I were officially attached to the 12th Infantry, and there I remained. Not to say loitered, till things ended. It was a ready and hard-used regiment, the 12th, as accomplished, surely, as any in either Army, and I think your brother's leadership, and his gallantry, was a conscious and vital part of it right on through. He was, by all signs, immensely liked and respected - genuinely fondly respected by all ranks, which implies, I think, real trust...Sincerely, J.D. Salinger''. Accompanied by photocopies of Mrs. Campion's letters to Salinger. 8.5'' x 11'' letter in near fine condition.