Salinger, autograph note signed, 1944, with related autograph album

SALINGER, JD

Autograph note signed ("Jerry Salinger"), to Molly Bocock

an affectionate note written amidst preparations for D-Day ("...You remind me of very good, very real things. There aren't many left..."), 1 page, oblong 8vo, 4 April 1944; loosely inserted in an autograph album with entries by servicemen (chiefly American) training at the School for Military Intelligence, 1941-44, and later entries including guests at the Cumberland Hotel, including the signature of Beverley Nichols and a loosely inserted note by John Manners giving permission for a tour of Haddon Hall (1944), 58 pages, plus blanks, and five loose items, oblong 8vo, 1941-1974

"...I'd like to send you some of my work, and I'd like to take you to a nice place in London where we might get pretty drunk and mellow..."

A VERY EARLY NOTE BY J.D. SALINGER WRITTEN TWO MONTHS BEFORE D-DAY. Molly Bocock served in the School for Military Intelligence in Smedley's Hydro, Matlock, Derbyshire. Among the American servicemen who trained at the school was J.D. Salinger, then a young writer with stories in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Salinger had been drafted into the 4th Counter Intelligence Corps and his wartime experiences over the next year - which included D-Day landing at Utah Beach, a meeting with Hemingway in Paris, and the liberation of one of the Dachau Concentration Camps - were to have a profound effect upon his life and writing.

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