BIB_ID
432828
Accession number
MA 23470.1
Creator
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1964 February 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19.5 x 14.5 cm + envelope
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead: "Mrs. Ernest Hemingway / 27 East 65th Street / New York 21, New York."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Will Yolen, Esq. / Book Publishing Committee / Overseas Press Club of America / 54 W. 40th street / New York 18, N. Y."
Acquired with another letter from Mary Welsh Hemingway to the editors of the Oversea Press Club, cataloged as MA 23407.2.
The book discussed in this exchange of letters appears to be the Overseas Press Club's collection I Can Tell It Now (1964). Hemingway contributed an essay titled "The Blitz: What Americans Could Not Be Told."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks: "Will Yolen, Esq. / Book Publishing Committee / Overseas Press Club of America / 54 W. 40th street / New York 18, N. Y."
Acquired with another letter from Mary Welsh Hemingway to the editors of the Oversea Press Club, cataloged as MA 23407.2.
The book discussed in this exchange of letters appears to be the Overseas Press Club's collection I Can Tell It Now (1964). Hemingway contributed an essay titled "The Blitz: What Americans Could Not Be Told."
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2502, lot 217, 21 March 2019.
Summary
Saying that she will "do my damndest" (in terms of providing an essay for an OPC collection) but that she is about to spend several weeks fishing in the Caribbean and won't return to New York until early March, "which does not leave much time for research and memory-checking"; mentioning that she has a piece on "Fidel and Cuba, but it cannot Now Be Told because it involves friends of Ernest's and mine who are still there and it might make trouble for them"; suggesting that she could instead write "a piece about the Blitz which would have been censorable then"; asking for guidelines on what type of essay he is looking for; referring to the "Munich agreement which was one of our best farces of those days"; sending her phone number and best wishes for the OPC book.
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