BIB_ID
370696
Accession number
MA 8616
Creator
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Display Date
1937 July 27.
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Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2013.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 16.9 x 26.5 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery of "The Barclay / 111 East 48th Street." Hemingway has crossed out this address and written "Cat Cay / B.W.I." The date is also written by hand.
Summary
Telling him that he "just wrote to Waldo [Peirce] about the second jacket" [for To Have and Have Not]; calling Peirce's first dust jacket design "sloppily done"; noting that he doesn't want the cover "to give impression it was a fishing book"; observing that it would be better to "have nothing" than to "sabotage what the writer creates by a totally opposite conception"; commenting favorably on Peirce's other drawings for the book; giving details of his upcoming travel plans; mentioning that he caught a marlin last week.
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