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| Author: |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Title: |
Autograph letter signed by Ernest Hemingway to his eldest son John H. "Bumby" Hemingway, December 27, 1956, with envelope |
| Place: |
Hotel Ritz, Paris |
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| Date: |
1956 |
| Item # : |
185597 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
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85 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 5750 |
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| Description: |
| 7x5˝, 6 pages on 3 sheets, inked in dark blue fountain pen, on Hotel Ritz (Paris) stationery (with hotel logo and address imprinted in blue). Signed “Papa” December 27, 1956 and addressed “Dear Bum” [John (“Bumby”)], Hemingway’s eldest son. With original mailing envelope, with several stamps and rubberstamped, addressed in holograph / ink: “Senior Don John H. Hemingway…San Francisco de Paula (Prov. Havana), Cuba. |
| Writing from the famed Paris hotel which connects both Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Papa Hemingway discusses his son’s upcoming visit to Cuba, gives advice regarding cards, running the Finca, etc., and voices his concern about finances: “…Mary’s mother is a huge drain on expenses and she might perfectly well live on indefinitely in her present condition. I have no assurance of how I will work in this kind of regime I have to follow. It is the opposite of how things have always [been]. Better not go into all that… The thing for me to do now is not to think about things nor think them through but to write checks and get this off. Hope you had a fine Christmas and will have a good new year. With Blackie, Negrito and Boise [his dogs and cats at the Finca] dead I do not care much about coming back to Cuba. But have to finish some work before I get the chop. This is just black ass [Hemingway’s term for a bad mood or melancholia]. But sure have it good today. Pay no attention to it. Best love, Papa” (followed by his characteristic closing sketch of a large circle enclosing a smaller one). |
| Condition: |
| Fine. |
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