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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("Papa") to Dr. George Saviers in Sun Valley, Idaho; Malaga, Spain, 11 May 1959. 3 pages, 4to, in blue ink on two sheets of blue paper, the address of the Bill and Annie Davis home "La Consula" (where he was staying) imprinted at top of each sheet, slight fold creases, with the envelope hand-addressed by Hemingway and with his name ("E. Hemingway") written in the return address.
"THE PAMPLONA BULLS...SHOULD BE WONDERFUL"
Written shortly after arriving in Spain from Cuba. Hemingway used the Davis house in Malaga as a base during the bullfight season of 1959, which he wrote about in The Dangerous Summer; it was there that he celebrated his 60th birthday (on July 21). "We have cabled for the Pamplona reservations and the tickets...You are our guests on everything, I mean hotel and tickets...The Pamplona bulls are from the very best ranches and should be wonderful. [The Pamplona fiesta of San Fermin would be July 6-12.] They will have both MIURAS and Pablo Romeros...They are the best lot you could possibly see. Who will fight them is still up in the air. If Antonio [Ordez] and Luis Miguel [Dominguin] do not fight them I will make the reservations so we can catch them when they do fight...Juanito Quintana, who was Montoya the hotel keeper in The Sun Also Rises, is with us and he is making the Pamplona reservations and everything will be solid this week."
Hemingway discusses (for almost a page) a medical problem of Annie Davis', and then continues: "...This is a wonderful place. From here you can drive to all Andalusia...The feria here will be Aug. 2 and last for a week and probably be the best one this year...Both Luis Miguel Dominguin and Antonio are probably fighting...Have been working well here...and in great shape...Wonderful that we will be seeing you at Pamplona. Seems too good to be true..." Not in Letters, ed. C. Barker, and presumably unpublished.
"THE PAMPLONA BULLS...SHOULD BE WONDERFUL"
Written shortly after arriving in Spain from Cuba. Hemingway used the Davis house in Malaga as a base during the bullfight season of 1959, which he wrote about in The Dangerous Summer; it was there that he celebrated his 60th birthday (on July 21). "We have cabled for the Pamplona reservations and the tickets...You are our guests on everything, I mean hotel and tickets...The Pamplona bulls are from the very best ranches and should be wonderful. [The Pamplona fiesta of San Fermin would be July 6-12.] They will have both MIURAS and Pablo Romeros...They are the best lot you could possibly see. Who will fight them is still up in the air. If Antonio [Ordez] and Luis Miguel [Dominguin] do not fight them I will make the reservations so we can catch them when they do fight...Juanito Quintana, who was Montoya the hotel keeper in The Sun Also Rises, is with us and he is making the Pamplona reservations and everything will be solid this week."
Hemingway discusses (for almost a page) a medical problem of Annie Davis', and then continues: "...This is a wonderful place. From here you can drive to all Andalusia...The feria here will be Aug. 2 and last for a week and probably be the best one this year...Both Luis Miguel Dominguin and Antonio are probably fighting...Have been working well here...and in great shape...Wonderful that we will be seeing you at Pamplona. Seems too good to be true..." Not in Letters, ed. C. Barker, and presumably unpublished.