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Lot 419
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) American novelist and short-story writer; winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. One autograph letter signed ("Ernest") in pencil and three typed letters signed, two ("Ernest") and one ("Hemingstein"), all in pencil, one from Sun Valley, Idaho (with envelope postmarked Oct. 27, 1939), the others probably from Havana and Wyoming and probably ranging from August 1939 to early or mid 1940, all to Jane Armstrong, a friend who was a State Department employee in Havana. The ALS is 2 pages, 11 x 8½ in., regarding how to type the manuscript of For Whom the Bell Tolls ("triple space with 2 carbons") and how to send it; if she thinks her daughter Phyllis can't handle it (because of the content), "just call it all off and I will travel in an armoured car with it until get it finished. Am so damed spooked of something happening to original and there being no copy…." He says to tell Phyllis that he is paying the same for typing his manuscript as Martha (Gellhorn) pays and tells Jane that if she can't get it all done, to do as much as she can of the first seven chapters "and do chapter Eight as have to have that to refer to when working on the trip."
Two typed letters (one with an envelope with no postmark), regarding delivery of the manuscript, thanking Jane and Phyllis for the wonderful job, family news of spending time with the kids ("Bumby back in school and others in K.W."), Marty being sick ("just when she was sailing for abroad for Colliers"), and thanking her for comments about the manuscript ("What you wrote about the Mss. made me very happy; really happy"). The third TLS, which has a large bold signature, asks Jane and Phyllis for emergency help in making another copy of the manuscript: "I know how difficult I am to type and that nobody but you and your you-trained offspring can do it properly. I would truly do it myself but I cannot write and copy both. Mary would but she aint accurate. It's worse for me to correct her mistakes than to write it in the first place….I have been working since six a.m. and now there will be no tennis which aint good for work tomorrow. Neither is having a goddamned wife try to put you out of business when you are writing the best book you ever wrote." In a postscript, he asks Jane to let him know if she likes the book. "When I read the chapters you just typed I thought it was wonderful. But then I am maybe nuts too which wouldn't be odd under all the circumstances…." With nine related items (a cable, a copy of a cable, carbon copies of two Jane Armstrong letters to Hemingway, a mailing label, Air Express receipts, etc.) primarily regarding the mailing of the typescript.
Estimated Value $6,000 - 8,000.
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