Call Number:

C0305

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 3 boxes
• 1.25 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); C. T. Lanham Papers on Ernest Hemingway, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1945-1978 (inclusive)

Creator:

Lanham, C. T. (Charles Trueman), 1902-

Form:

Correspondence. and Photographic prints

Abstract:

Charles Trueman Lanham was a life soldier who retired as a general and was also friends with Hemingway. The papers consist of Xerox copies of correspondence between Lanham and Hemingway, a chronology of his time in World War II, correspondence about Hemingway, and a draft of Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway.

C.T. Lanham was a life soldier who retired as a general. In 1944, during World War II, his troops were among the first to break out from Normandy, enter Paris, and attack the Siegfried Line in Germany. He became friends with Hemingway and corresponded with him for the next 17 years. After the war, he was chief of troop information and education; post-retirement he was associate editor of Infantry Journal.

The collection consists, for the most part, of Xerox copies of correspondence between General Lanham and Ernest Hemingway, a chronology by Lanham of the years (1944-1945) when Hemingway was attached to his unit in Europe during World War II as a war correspondent, and correspondence between Lanham, Mary Hemingway, and others about Hemingway. Also included in the collection are correspondence between Carlos Baker and Lanham and a draft of Chapter 9 of Baker's biography Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969) containing Lanham's notes.