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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed ("Hemingstein") to Nathan William ("Bill") and Emily Davis, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, 31 March 1942. 1 page, 4to, Finca Vigia stationery, with original autograph airmail envelope (on personal stationery). Creased for folding, otherwise fine.
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed ("Hemingstein") to Nathan William ("Bill") and Emily Davis, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, 31 March 1942. 1 page, 4to, Finca Vigia stationery, with original autograph airmail envelope (on personal stationery). Creased for folding, otherwise fine.
AN EXUBERANT, UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO A FELLOW EX-PATRIOT. "We had a wonderful time with you guys," Hemingway writes. "Marty [Martha Gellhorn] says she wrote you all the news...We have never had any more fun than with you both nor ever liked anybody more. Will try to get some pictures of the pictures to send you to make sure to have something to lure you down here. We look forward to you coming as big thing of this summer." In a jocular postscript he adds: "You might let our friends know from time to time that I am proceeding leisurely through the various Mexican states working on that book The Farewell to Arms Boys Take Telespalteper."
Hemingway biographers have neglected the importance of this friendship with Nathan William Davis (ca. 1906 - ca.1985) a wealthy patron of the arts from Indianapolis and a graduate of Yale (1929). Booth Tarkington based his Magnificent Ambersons on the Davis family. He met Hemingway in 1931, but also counted among his friends Jackson Pollack, Cyril Connelly, Peggy Guggenheim, John Dos Passos and other creative artists. Hemingway visited the Davises at their home in Málaga, Spain, in 1959, and hosted Hemingway's 60th birthday party. As this (and the following letters) reveal, Hemingway considered him one of his closest and most trusted friends. NOT PUBLISHED.
AN EXUBERANT, UNPUBLISHED LETTER TO A FELLOW EX-PATRIOT. "We had a wonderful time with you guys," Hemingway writes. "Marty [Martha Gellhorn] says she wrote you all the news...We have never had any more fun than with you both nor ever liked anybody more. Will try to get some pictures of the pictures to send you to make sure to have something to lure you down here. We look forward to you coming as big thing of this summer." In a jocular postscript he adds: "You might let our friends know from time to time that I am proceeding leisurely through the various Mexican states working on that book The Farewell to Arms Boys Take Telespalteper."
Hemingway biographers have neglected the importance of this friendship with Nathan William Davis (ca. 1906 - ca.1985) a wealthy patron of the arts from Indianapolis and a graduate of Yale (1929). Booth Tarkington based his Magnificent Ambersons on the Davis family. He met Hemingway in 1931, but also counted among his friends Jackson Pollack, Cyril Connelly, Peggy Guggenheim, John Dos Passos and other creative artists. Hemingway visited the Davises at their home in Málaga, Spain, in 1959, and hosted Hemingway's 60th birthday party. As this (and the following letters) reveal, Hemingway considered him one of his closest and most trusted friends. NOT PUBLISHED.