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Lot 169
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. An extensive archive consisting of approximately eighty letters from family, friends, his first wife, and acquaintances from his early years (1914-1928), with a few other letters, including one from his third wife, up to 1941. Hemingway kept this group of letters with him until his death. The letters are housed in two loose-leaf notebooks; the condition is generally very good to fine.
Included in the collection are fourteen letters from Hemingway's mother, Grace Hall Hemingway and father, Clarence Hemingway (he committed suicide in 1928), with references to Ernest's World War I war injuries and his recovery in a hospital in Italy in 1918. One ANS "G.H.H." addressed to "Lieut. Ernest Miller Hemingway, Section 4 Italian Ambulance Service, American Red Cross…." says, "…Write me all about your dear Red Cross nurse. Dougherty tells me you were quite devoted to one another…." Agnes von Kurowsky was Ernest's first love and their romance served as the basis of the love story in A Farewell to Arms, the most important novel to come out of World War I. In 1919, Clarence sends Ernest, among other things, "a new Underwood 'Black Ribbon'"; Ernest kept this typewriter with him his entire life.
Two letters, from The Saturday Evening Post and The Green Book Magazine, are rejections of E.H.'s earliest attempts at short-story writing, one letter offering specific criticisms to improve his work. There are five letters written by E.H.'s first wife, Elizabeth Richarson "Hadley" Hemingway, between Dec. 28, 1921 and Mar. 20, 1925 to E.H.'s parents. In 1922 she writes, "..It's so wonderful being married but you're only half of twice as big a personality!…I certainly love this child of yours and mine…." In Sept. 1923, she reports her pregnancy [their son John was born Oct. 10, 1923], and in April 1924 she writes that Gertrude Stein and Alice Toclaz are the baby's godparents: "[they] are wonderful godparents - over here every few days to see his progress and make the right suggestions at the right moments….Ernie…is making a great name for himself among literary people everywhere. Ford Maddox Ford, editor of the Transatlantic Review, the man who taught Joseph Conrad to write English, said to him yesterday…'Monsieur, you will have a great name in no time at all!. In March 1925, she reports the news that "Boni and Livwright had taken Ernest's book of short stories, In Our Time….He has a big fishing story, The Big Two-Hearted River coming out in the opening number of This Quarter, an American & English magazine that promises to do well over here. It is on sale in the states too. Also a story,The Undefeated (Bullfighter's tale) in Der Gruschnitt March or April number…."
Martha Gelhorn, E.H.'s third wife, wrote his mother from Cuba in 1941, referring to their trip to China and noting that "Ernest is…getting the first real rest now since he finished his book…." The book is probably Hemingway's 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Estimated Value $25,000 - 35,000.
Ex Collection of Jonathan Goodwin.
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