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Ernest Hemingway Collection

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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, storywriter, and journalist from Oak Park, Illinois. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

The collection contains autograph and typed manuscripts of two articles, "Bullfighting, Sport and Industry" and "Cracking the Siegfried Line"; a signed, autograph manuscript of the short story "A Day's Wait"; the uncorrected galleys of Death in the Afternoon; and a signed carbon of The Torrents of Spring with an inscription to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Also included is correspondence with friends, as well as photographs, printed material, and other related items.

A more recent accession is a videocassette of a documentary film made for television, entitled "Biography: Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life" (1998), produced by Crisman Films, Inc., for the Arts & Entertainment Network. Chronicling Hemingway's life, the film is narrated by Mariel Hemingway and contains reminiscences by Hemingway's sons Jack and Gregory, A. E. Hotchner, Clara Spiegel, Gregorio Fuentes, Charles Scribner III, and others.

Further additions consist of a typescript of Hemingway's dispatches or press releases sent from Spain dated between April and Octover, 1937; a letter to his son Gigi (August 21, 1950), a letter to Joseph H. Barach (Sept. 12, 1952), and a letter of Pauline Pfeiffer (Hemingway) to their son Gigi (August 24).

Series: Works, Correspondence Sent, Correspondence Received, Family Papers, Papers About Hemingway, Miscellaneous, Photographs and Printed Material.

The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.

Publications: "Bullfighting Sport and Industry" ( Fortune, vol. 1, no. 2: 1930), "Cracking the Siegfried Line" ( Collier's, vol. 114: 1944), "A Day's Wait" (1933), Death in the Afternoon (New York: Scribner, 1932), The Torrents of Spring, (New York: Scribner, 1926)

Letters of Ernest and Pauline Hemingway to their son Gigi were a gift of Anne de Chabret and the other children of Anne Brown Davidson in honor of R. Manning Brown, on June 17, 1985.

Hemingway's dispatches were a gift of John Hylan Hemingway, Princeton Class of 1937, on December 30, 1985.

The letter to Joseph H. Barach was purchased on September 20, 1993.

A checklist is available.

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Folder inventory prepared by Alex Rodgers '2013 in 2011.

In 2022, restrictions on materials where researchers were required to use surrogates were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

"Bull Fighting, Sport and Industry", 1930 March. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Also includes 1 page to John Herrmann concerning original of article.

Physical Description

1 folderXerox with corrections

"Cracking the Siegfried Line" by General C. T. Lanham, with Cover Letter, 1946 February 4. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox with corrections

"A Day's Wait", 1933. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

"Death in the Afternoon", 1981. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"The Torrents of Spring", with Inscription to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, 1923 September, 1923-1925. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Also includes letter from Horace Brisbin Liveright to Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

Physical Description

1 folder

Letter from Hemingway to Janet Flanner, 1933. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letters from Hemingway to Isabelle Simmons Godolphin, 1922-1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letter from Hemingway to Anton Gud Esq., 1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letters from Hemingway to Barklie, Henry (Buz), 1925-1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Correspondence from Hemingway to Howell Jenkins, 1919-1922. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letter from Hemingway to Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (Buck), 1955 December 6. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letters from Hemingway to Horace Brisbin Liveright, 1925. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letter from Hemingway to Waldo Pierce (Incomplete), 1928. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letters from Hemingway to Senor Juan Quintana (in Spanish), 1954-1960. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letter from Hemingway to George Slocombe, 1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Correspondence from Hemingway to Solita Solano, 1933-1942. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letters from Hemingway to Henry Strater (Mike), 1926-1961. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letter from Hemingway to "Mr. Turner", 1931. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Letter from Hemingway to Dale Wilson, 1918. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Telegram from Hemingway to Unidentified Correspondent in Paris re: Herbert Matthews, 1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderXerox

Henry, Barklie (Buz) to Hemingway, 1927-1933. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderCarbons

Liveright, Horace Brisbin to Hemingway, 1925. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Typescripts of Hemingway's Press Releases from Spain, 1937. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hemingway, Pauline (Pfeiffer), 1930-1947. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Mowrer, Elizabeth Hadley (Richardson) Hemingway - Letters to Isabelle (Simmons) Godolphin, 1923-1927. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hemingway, Pauline to Her Son Gigi, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hemingway, Ernest to His Son Gigi, 1950. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hemingway, Ernest to Joseph H Barach, M. D., 1952. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hemingway - Edmonds Family Tree, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Carlos Baker to Isabel Godolphin, 1964 October 22-30. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Letter dated October 30, 1964. Also includes carbon copy of typed "Interview with Isabel Godolphin", dated October 22 1964.

Physical Description

1 folder

Buck, John C. - "Hemingway and His Nightingale"; 3 Typed Drafts with Corrections, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter - Max Perkins to Henry Strater1, 1931 November. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Stanfield, Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky - Six Pieces About Her Reminiscences of Ernest Hemingway in Italy in 1918, 1957. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Letter - Thompson, Charles to Henry Strater (Mike), 1932 September. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Ernest Hemingway's Boyhood Years", Transcript of Taped Panel Discussion, 1976. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Reviewed at Trinton College, River Grove, IL. September 24, 1974.

Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous - Non Literary Ephemera, 1976. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Stamps and Postcards with Likeness to Ernest Hemingway - Gifted by Solita Solano and Carlos Baker, 1969. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Photographs of Hemingway and Others (13), 1918-1980. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Color Photograph of Hemingway's Gravesite, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Five Articles on China by Ernest Hemingway, June 10-18, 1941, 1941 June 10-18. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Printed Biographical Material - 75th Anniversary Special Supplement and "The Student" Magazine of Wake Forest University, 1974-1978. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Printed Literary Material - "Hemingway's Morality of Compensation" - Scott Donaldson and "A Tribute to Ernest Hemingway" - "Crest", A Literary Magazine, 1967-1971. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Biographical Clippings, 1925-1961. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Review Clippings, 1927-1950. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Xerox of Cancelled Check from Fitzgerald to Hemingway, 1926 April 6. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Original check found in F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.

Physical Description

1 folder

Printed Material - Miscellaneous, 1952. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Videocassette: Biography, "Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life", A and E Network, 1998. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Print, Suggest