Call Number:

C0068

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.8 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ernest Hemingway Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1918-1974 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century, Fiction -- 20th century., Galley Proofs (Printing) -- 20th century., Manuscripts -- 20th century., Novelists, American -- 20th century., photographs -- 20th century, and Videocassettes.

Abstract:

Consists of selected material by and about the American author and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway.

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.