Salinger, J. D. | Typed letter signed to his copy editor at Little, Brown and Company

Salinger, J. D.

Typed letter signed ("J. D. Salinger"), to his copy editor John E. Woodman, Jr., at Little, Brown and Company, acknowledging receipt of page proofs for Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

1/2 page (278 x 215 mm) on a leaf of Eaton's Corrasable Bond paper, R.D.2, Windsor, Vermont, 14 October 1962; accompanied by the original typed envelope with Windsor, Vermont watermark; loss along right edge of envelope where originally opened, a touch of toning to edges of letter and envelope. Accompanied by a copy of Woodman's 10 October letter sending the page proofs. 

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction, was the final book-length work of fiction published in Salinger's lifetime. It is comprised of two novellas set seventeen years apart, and are both concerned with Seymour Glass, the eldest son of Salinger's fictional Glass family. The present correspondence is with the author's copy editor at Little, Brown and Company, who published the title the following year. In response to receiving marked and unmarked sets of page proofs, he acknowledges receipt, before thanking him for lauding the book: "Thanks for the two sets of of page proof. Double thanks for what you say... I'm grateful and glad."