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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Letter signed ("Ernest Hemingway," the text dictated to and written by an amanuensis) to Roy P. Gates in Los Angeles, Rochester, Minn., 15 January 1961. 2 pages, 8vo, both sides of a single sheet, all in ink, with two words of revision (possibly in Hemingway's holograph), with envelope; with a long clipping from a California newspaper regarding Gates and this Hemingway letter (both pictured in the account).
WRITTEN DURING HEMINGWAY'S FINAL MONTHS
On 30 November 1960 Hemingway entered St. Mary's Hospital of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for medical and psychiatric treatment. The announcement of his presence there on 11 January 1961 brought a flood of mail. His replies were dictated to a medical secretary named Patricia McQuarrie (Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: a Life Story, p. 706). Gates had been a roommate of Jack ("Bumby") Hemingway, the author's eldest son, in a private school in France in the 1930s; Gates's father, a filmmaker, also knew Hemingway. Hemingway committed suicide on 2 July 1961. Some ten letters after the date of this one are printed in Letters, ed. C. Baker.
"You can find Bumby, they call him Jack now, at [Hemingway gives the San Francisco address of Merrill Lynch, where his son was working]...When we ran the recon into Paris [in 1944] the head of the Army, Le Clerc and Co., went a little to the left of where you guys were at school together...Everything is under control, they tell me now and it's only a matter of holding the weight down to a poundage that is difficult for me to make, but not impossible...Best always and I hope we will meet again before too long."
WRITTEN DURING HEMINGWAY'S FINAL MONTHS
On 30 November 1960 Hemingway entered St. Mary's Hospital of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for medical and psychiatric treatment. The announcement of his presence there on 11 January 1961 brought a flood of mail. His replies were dictated to a medical secretary named Patricia McQuarrie (Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: a Life Story, p. 706). Gates had been a roommate of Jack ("Bumby") Hemingway, the author's eldest son, in a private school in France in the 1930s; Gates's father, a filmmaker, also knew Hemingway. Hemingway committed suicide on 2 July 1961. Some ten letters after the date of this one are printed in Letters, ed. C. Baker.
"You can find Bumby, they call him Jack now, at [Hemingway gives the San Francisco address of Merrill Lynch, where his son was working]...When we ran the recon into Paris [in 1944] the head of the Army, Le Clerc and Co., went a little to the left of where you guys were at school together...Everything is under control, they tell me now and it's only a matter of holding the weight down to a poundage that is difficult for me to make, but not impossible...Best always and I hope we will meet again before too long."