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Examples
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But then reporters found out about the impending publication and started calling Lathbury, who, to his everlasting regret, started talking.
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Even after Salinger's death, Lathbury feels protective of the author's privacy.
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Lathbury recalls the first piece of Salinger correspondence in 1996 as if it had arrived last week:
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During their lunch at the National Gallery of Art cafeteria, Lathbury recalls how he summoned the gall to question Salinger on some stylistic matters in "Hapworth."
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Now, all Lathbury has is a box of Salinger's letters.
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"I have not looked at those letters in years; to reread them would be too painful," Lathbury writes.
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Lathbury can't even bring himself to open the box and read the letters; he feels too much pain to see what he nurtured, and what he mysteriously lost.
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Not once does Lathbury quote from the correspondence in his New York piece.
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In 1988, Lathbury wrote Salinger on a lark with the pitch to publish "Hapworth," a short story in the form of a letter from 7-year-old summer camper Seymour Glass to his parents.
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"They were remarkably open, even garrulous, with notes on family life, social observations, gripes about train travel, little jokes about himself," Lathbury recalls.
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