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10. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Enlistment Records, Jerome David Salinger, 32325200.
11. Salinger to Whit Burnett, June 8, 1942.
12. Colonel Milton Baker to Colonel Collins, June 5, 1942.
13. Whit Burnett to Colonel Collins, July 1, 1942.
14. Salinger to Randy Troup, December 4, 1969. Tara was the name of the plantation in Gone with the Wind.
15. Salinger to Whit Burnett, September 3, 1942.
16. Whit Burnett to Dorothy Olding, November 25, 1942.
17. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (no date) but after September 1942.
18. Truman Capote, “La Côte Basque,” Unanswered Prayers (London: Plume, 1987). The chapter was first published in the November 1975 issue of Esquire.
19. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but March 1943).
20. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, December 27, 1942.
21. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but after Christmas 1942 or early 1943).
22. Ibid.
23. J. D. Salinger, “The Varioni Brothers,” The Saturday Evening Post, July 17, 1943, 12–13, 76–77.
24. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but soon after Christmas 1942).
25. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but March 1943).
26. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, October 31, 1941.
27. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, January 11, 1943.
28. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but July 1943).
29. J. D. Salinger, “Soft-Boiled Sergeant,” The Saturday Evening Post, April 15, 1944, 18, 32, 82–85.
30. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—an Introduction (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991), 163.
31. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, October 31, 1941.
32. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but June 1943).
33. Ibid.
34. J. D. Salinger, “Two Lonely Men,” unpublished, 1944.
35. J. D. Salinger, “Both Parties Concerned,” The Saturday Evening Post, February 26, 1944, 14, 47–48.
36. Salinger to Whit Burnett, July 1, 1943.
37. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but June 1943).
38. Salinger to Herb Kauffman, June 7, 1943.
39. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, June 1943.
40. J. D. Salinger, “Elaine,” Story, March–April 1945, 38–47.
41. Salinger to Herb Kauffman, ND (but late summer 1943).
42. Ibid.
43. Captain James H. Gardner to Whit Burnett, July 15, 1943.
44. Salinger to Whit Burnett, ND (but the week of October 3, 1943).
45. Ibid.
46. J. D. Salinger, “Last Day of the Last Furlough,” The Saturday Evening Post, July 15, 1944, 26–27, 61–62, 64.
47. Ibid.
Chapter 4: Displacement
1. Salinger to Whit Burnett, October 3, 1943.
2. Story Press interoffice memo, circa late 1943 or early 1944.
3. Whit Burnett to Harold Ober, December 9, 1943.
4. Whit Burnett to Harold Ober, February 3, 1944.
5. Salinger to Whit Burnett, January 14, 1944.
6. Salinger to Wolcott Gibbs, January 20, 1944.
7. Salinger to Herb Kauffman, ND (but late summer 1943).
8. William Maxwell to Dorothy Olding, February 4, 1944.
9. Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher (New York: Washington Square Press, 2000), 50, 53.
10. J. D. Salinger, “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor,” The New Yorker, April 8, 1950, 28–36.
11. Salinger to Whit Burnett, March 13, 1944.
12. Salinger to Whit Burnett, March 19, 1944.
13. Salinger to Whit Burnett, May 2, 1944. In referring to this story, Salinger shifted between two titles, “The Children’s Echelon” and “Total War Diary,” and because the story was never published, it is known by both names today.
14. J. D. Salinger, “The Children’s Echelon,” unpublished (but spring 1944).
15. Story Press interoffice memo, 1944.
16. Salinger to Whit Burnett, April 22, 1944.
17. Whit Burnett to Salinger, April 14, 1944.
18. Salinger to Whit Burnett, March 19, 1944.
19. J. D. Salinger, “Two Lonely Men,” unpublished (but spring 1944).
20. Ralph C. Greene and Oliver E. Allen, “What Happened off Devon,” American Heritage, February 1985, 4.
21. Gordon A. Harrison, “The Sixth of June,” Cross Channel Attack (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2002 [1951]), 270.
22. Salinger to Whit Burnett, May 2, 1944.
23. Whit Burnett to Salinger, April 14, 1944.
24. Ibid.
25. Salinger to Whit Burnett, May 2, 1944.
26. J.