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William Dodge Horne collection of Ernest Hemingway

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Horne, William Dodge

William Horne and Ernest Hemingway were lifelong friends. Horne met Hemingway while a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross during World War I. They were stationed in Schio, Italy, and drove together on the same ambulance. After Hemingway's failed engagement to Agnes von Kurowsky, they shared an apartment in Chicago during the fall of 1920. When Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in September 1921, Horne was in the wedding party. When the writer died in 1961, Horne was an honorary pallbearer.

Contains eight Horne-Hemingway items: a copy of a photograph of Frances Horne [Bunny] and Hemingway in Wyoming in 1928; an autograph signed letter by Ernest Hemingway (with postscript by wife Pauline) to "Dearest Bunny and Horney" [Frances and William Horne], dated 9 September [1929], 2 pp., with envelope; an autograph signed letter by Hemingway to "Dear 'Orny" [Horne], dated 1 June [1930], 2 pp., with 5 pp. of fishing gear advertisements with holograph annotations, with envelope; a typed letter (copy) (dictated to Pauline by Hemingway) to "Dear Horny," dated 23 November [1930], on hospital X-ray form; a typed letter (copy) (dictated to Pauline by Hemingway) to "Dear Horney," dated 26 December [1930], 1 p.; autograph signed letter by Hemingway to "Dear Horney" [William Horne], dated 25 March [1931], 1 p., with envelope; a color copy of a telegram sent by Mary and Ernest Hemingway to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dodge Horne on the occasion of their wedding, 17 September 1955; and a compact disc recording of "Memories of Ernest Hemingway by William Dodge Horne, Jr., whose grandson, William C. Horne, taped the conversation during an English class at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, IL on May 8, 1975"; 1 p.; Also included are a copy of Horne's first person article "The Hemingway I Remember," "as told to Virginia Kleitz Moseley," that appeared in November 5, 1979, issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and a short piece (2012) about Horne's gift of a Hemingway trunk to the Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, Illinois.

Gift, 2012 .

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Processed by John Delaney in 2012.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2012
Access Restrictions

Researchers must use color Xerox copies of the original Hemingway letters, which are restricted.

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Collection Inventory

Photograph of Frances Thorne and Ernest Hemingway in Wyoming, 1928. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderCopy

Ernest Hemingway to "Bunny and Horney" (Frances and William Horne), 1929 September 9. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderColor Xeroxes of ALS

Ernest Hemingway to "Horny" (William Horne), 1930 June 1. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes annotated pages of a fishing gear catalog.

Physical Description

1 folderColor Xeroxes of ALS

Ernest Hemingway to "Dear Horny" (William Horne), 1930 November 23. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Dictated letter.

Physical Description

1 folderXerox of typed letter

Ernest Hemingway to "Dear Horny" (William Horne), 1930 December 26. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Dictated letter.

Physical Description

1 folderXerox copy of typed letter

Ernest Hemingway to "Dear Horny" (William Horne), circa 1931 March 25. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderColor Xeroxes of ALS

Ernest Hemingway to "Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dodge Horne", 1955 September 17. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderColor Xerox of telegram

William Horne, "Memories of Ernest Hemingway by William Dodge Horne, Jr.", 1978 May 8. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Recording of a talk given at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois.

Physical Description

1 folderCompact Disk

Biographical Material, 1979-2012. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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