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2 pages, 10½x8¼", carbon copy, double-spaced, on one side of two sheets of white paper watermarked "Extra Strong BF". Housed in a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Also included is a copy of Kiki's Memoirs (Paris, 1930) and a five page typed list of Hemingway's works, and contributions to other works, through 1942 with an envelope of Bruccoli-Clark Publishers, and a typed letter, signed, from bookseller David Randall offering for sale of a copy of Kiki's Memoirs.

A working draft (apparently the first) typed by Hemingway and with his revisions: a half-page false start is deleted, another beginning is switched, a sentence with a negative comment on Ford Madox Ford is deleted, and other changes including 10 words in ink in Hemingway's holograph. 

Kiki (real name Alice Prin) was a famous artist's model and the "Queen" of Montparnasse. Her Memoirs, translated from the French by Samuel Putnam and with an introduction by Hemingway -- his first for any book -- was published in Paris by Edward W. Titus at the Black Manikin Press in June 1930 (A copy of which is included here). Hemingway's contribution was previously issued (22 January 1930) in an eight-page pamphlet form as Introduction to Kiki of Montparnasse in an edition of 25 copies to secure the American copyright. This 370-word apparent first draft was expanded by Hemingway to some 1070 words in the final printed version; about two-thirds of this typescript was incorporated into the final text. The corrected setting copy typescript and corrected page proofs that Hemingway sent to Titus are in HRC, University of Texas (Hanneman, Supplement, F6-J). 

Hemingway writes: "...The pre-war epoch in Montparnasse ended with the war and the post-war epoch ended when Kiki published this book. Not that the publication was quiet or dull...The other marks of the end of the epoch were not quiet or dull either. They were noisy, brilliantly electrically lighted and expansive and included the introduction of shredded wheat, grape-nuts, puffed rice and other patent morning foods, all served with cream, to the terraces of the Carrefour Vavin cafes. This begins to sound a little like Mr. Ford Madox Ford although I am sure Mr. Ford would be the first to deny it, and probably rightly, but if you have never written in the grand reminiscence style it is hard to begin...The people who tell me which books are great lasting works of art are all out of town so I cannot make an intelligent judgement but I think Kiki's book is grand..."