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Letters to go on display for the first time in New York show that JD Salinger wrote regularly for years after he stopped publishing JD Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, in 1951. Letters written by JD Salinger to the designer of The Catcher in the Rye's jacket, which are to go on display at a New York museum, show that the author was still writing regularly long after he stopped publishing in 1965. The 11 letters, written between 1951 and 1993, were sent to his friend of more than 40 years E Michael Mitchell, who at one point Salinger addresses, Holden Caulfield-style, as "Buddyroo". They show that he would start work every morning at six, or seven at the latest, refusing to be interrupted "unless absolutely necessary or convenient", according to a report in the New York Times , which revealed that the letters were to be made public at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. A 1966 letter points to "ten, 12 years' work [which includes] tw...