![HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("poor old Papa," "old Hem" twice in postscript) to Jane Mason in Havana; New Orleans, "August (April?) 2," [1936]. 5½ pages, 8vo, in dark blue ink on three sheets of pictorial stationery of Hotel Monteleone, with the pictorial envelope hand-addressed by Hemingway.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2000/NYR/2000_NYR_09364_0299_000(011322).jpg?w=1)
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("poor old Papa," "old Hem" twice in postscript) to Jane Mason in Havana; New Orleans, "August (April?) 2," [1936]. 5½ pages, 8vo, in dark blue ink on three sheets of pictorial stationery of Hotel Monteleone, with the pictorial envelope hand-addressed by Hemingway.
"COME ON HEMINGSTEIN PULL YOUR FRIENDS TOGETHER AND LETS GET OUTA HERE"
A rambling, playful letter (obviously fueled by liquor) written during a week of hard partying in New Orleans. The Hemingways were en route to Piggott, Arkansas, and then on to the Nordquist L-Bar-T Ranch in Wyoming. "How are you daughter? We drove out of Miami ahead of a hurricane -- finally got a little clear of it (well away) and then met it on its recurve and drove ahead and clear of it warning the desk clerks enroute [sic] -- Desk clerks no believe -- Hurricane all same come plenty blows pants off desk clerks if they wear (I never look behind desk, but operatives report frightfull [sic] things -- joke)...Well Mrs. Mason with this letter am invoiceing [sic] Miss Whatsername, ah yes, Pfeiffer sister of my wife (not to be confused as wife of my sister), keep it clean pal, I had a crack of some sort there but it was crushed in the shell, not the shell oil you fool whatsamatta with you, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Mason, all right Mr. Mason, no not Mr. Mason, Professor Macwalsey, the discoveror [sic] of --, come on Hemingstein pull your friends together and lets get outa here." Jinny Pfeiffer, his wife's sister, had flown in to New Orleans from Bimini; she was going to visit Jane Mason in Havana. "Professor McWalsey" was the nickname of Harry Burns, an English professor acquaintance from Key West who drove up to New Orleans with the Hemingways; Burns became the model for "Professor John MacWalsey" in To Have and Have Not, which Hemingway would begin writing in Wyoming."
"As I was saying Mrs. M am inviceing (inviceing) [sic] spell it yourself you snotty member of the big international racing (improving the breed) set, whoever it was, (you remember?) ah yes -- JINNY -- who cares nothing for me, thinking all men are probably just like Mr. H except really you know smart, (oily?) handsome, and what is it amazing (?) and, you know, really, how do you put it, marvellous (?) (also 22 years old) -- I speak ze Englesh zo poorlousely --(The beautiful Mrs. Mason). Well anyway daughter take care of her and don't let her drink more than 27 of what she would and sort of look after her for me because it is always very hard on me when she goes away because of all the things I haven't nor will have value this shipment the highest...much love from poor old Papa, his mark [a small sketch of a bag of money with a dollar sign, captioned '(a cool million)']." Hemingway has signed the four-line postscript: "old Hem (old Hem?)," the first with a Greek "E," the second with a cursive "e."
"COME ON HEMINGSTEIN PULL YOUR FRIENDS TOGETHER AND LETS GET OUTA HERE"
A rambling, playful letter (obviously fueled by liquor) written during a week of hard partying in New Orleans. The Hemingways were en route to Piggott, Arkansas, and then on to the Nordquist L-Bar-T Ranch in Wyoming. "How are you daughter? We drove out of Miami ahead of a hurricane -- finally got a little clear of it (well away) and then met it on its recurve and drove ahead and clear of it warning the desk clerks enroute [sic] -- Desk clerks no believe -- Hurricane all same come plenty blows pants off desk clerks if they wear (I never look behind desk, but operatives report frightfull [sic] things -- joke)...Well Mrs. Mason with this letter am invoiceing [sic] Miss Whatsername, ah yes, Pfeiffer sister of my wife (not to be confused as wife of my sister), keep it clean pal, I had a crack of some sort there but it was crushed in the shell, not the shell oil you fool whatsamatta with you, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Mason, all right Mr. Mason, no not Mr. Mason, Professor Macwalsey, the discoveror [sic] of --, come on Hemingstein pull your friends together and lets get outa here." Jinny Pfeiffer, his wife's sister, had flown in to New Orleans from Bimini; she was going to visit Jane Mason in Havana. "Professor McWalsey" was the nickname of Harry Burns, an English professor acquaintance from Key West who drove up to New Orleans with the Hemingways; Burns became the model for "Professor John MacWalsey" in To Have and Have Not, which Hemingway would begin writing in Wyoming."
"As I was saying Mrs. M am inviceing (inviceing) [sic] spell it yourself you snotty member of the big international racing (improving the breed) set, whoever it was, (you remember?) ah yes -- JINNY -- who cares nothing for me, thinking all men are probably just like Mr. H except really you know smart, (oily?) handsome, and what is it amazing (?) and, you know, really, how do you put it, marvellous (?) (also 22 years old) -- I speak ze Englesh zo poorlousely --(The beautiful Mrs. Mason). Well anyway daughter take care of her and don't let her drink more than 27 of what she would and sort of look after her for me because it is always very hard on me when she goes away because of all the things I haven't nor will have value this shipment the highest...much love from poor old Papa, his mark [a small sketch of a bag of money with a dollar sign, captioned '(a cool million)']." Hemingway has signed the four-line postscript: "old Hem (old Hem?)," the first with a Greek "E," the second with a cursive "e."