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Item Details
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| Author: |
Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. |
| Title: |
Typed letter signed by Hemingway as Papa to screenwriter Peter Viertel |
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Cuba |
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| Date: |
[c. 1950's] |
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206030 |
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424 |
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73 |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
| Sale Date |
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03/18/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 3000 |
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| Description: |
| With a six line holograph addition by Hemingway, on his Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba home stationery, one and one quarter pages (on a single leaf), quarto, dated August 21, no year. To screenwriter Peter Viertel: “...this picture business has some comic aspects when you read the contracts all the way through and when you have to go and see the actual moving pictures to check on characters. Did you have to watch The Purple Plain?...the chicken aircraft stuff and the abusive close-ups and Peck's march to the river...Well I must try again...”. |
| Viertel's association with Hemingway is an important one; he wrote the screenplays for two Hemingway films, The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises. According to Jefferey Meyer's book, Hemingway had an affair with Mrs. Viertel (Jigee) and Peter Viertel's book, Dangerous Friends, also alludes to that effect. |
| Condition: |
| Light wear, else very good or better. |
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