Re: warren french's discovery: [was: Re: the oldest of the old]

will,

i think the answer to the chicken or the egg was in
salinger.org, in its letters' section, all along. i
quote:

"* 7 February 1940 (1 p., typed, 1133 Park Avenue, New
York City; Dear Miss Kean)

Salinger lists the names and addresses of people to
whom he would like Story to send cards announcing the
publication of his story "The Young Folks."

* 17 April 1940 (1 p., typed, 1133 Park Avenue, New
York; Dear Mr. Burnett)

In response to Burnett's letter of 16 April 1940,
Salinger writes that eve[n] though Story rejected his
story "Go See Eddie," the fact that Burnett like[d]
the story "pleased" Salinger; he has sent the story to
Esquire along with Burnett's note; Salinger praises
the growth of Story."

--kim

--- Kim Johnson <haikux2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Will Hochman <hochmanw1@southernct.edu> wrote:
> > Kim, you are right about publication dates but I
> > believe "Go See
> > Eddie" was sent out and accepted by "The Young
> > Folks." I can't find
> > it now, but I remember a short article by French
> in
> > an academic
> > journal about "finding' "Go See Eddie" after it
> had
> > gone unnoticed in
> > the scholarship for so long.
> >
> > will
> > --
> >
>
> will, the more i think about it, i wonder *how*
> french
> discovered that 'go see eddie' was submitted and
> accepted *before* 'the young folks'.
>
> i can easily see him discovering an unnoticed jds
> story.
>
> But to prove 20+ years after the fact that one
> story
> was submitted and accepted before the other must
> hinge
> on some solid documentation. (surely jds did not
> confirm the sequence.)
>
> should you ever lay hands on the article, i'd be
> curious to know.
>
> (personally, i like the idea of 'the young folks' as
> salinger's lst pub.: the title is so apt.)
>
> thanks,
> kim
>
>
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