One page, 7 1/4 x 5 in. (sight), light center fold, framed with an accompanying photograph of Salinger; original envelope in sleeve. Unexamined out of the frame. Provenance: Phoebe Marshall (addressee); previously sold, Christie's 10 December 1999, lot 240; acquired, Kenneth Rendell Galleries.

Salinger writes to a young fan politely declining to read her written work, and explains that he takes no pleasure in sending letters such as these. Following publication of the short novel Hapworth 16, 1924 in The New Yorker on 19 June 1965 J.D. Salinger ceased all publication activities, opting for a more quiet life at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.