BIB_ID
432830
Accession number
MA 23470.2
Creator
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1964 March 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.2 x 17.5 cm
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead: "Mrs. Ernest Hemingway, 27 East 65th Street, New York 10021."
Acquired with another letter from Mary Welsh Hemingway to the editors of the Oversea Press Club, cataloged as MA 23407.1.
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."
Acquired with another letter from Mary Welsh Hemingway to the editors of the Oversea Press Club, cataloged as MA 23407.1.
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
Sending along "the Blitz piece on which I've worked like a Trojan-woman" (the article is no longer with the letter); mentioning that though Will Yolen said it would only have to be two thousand five hundred words, the article grew to nearly four thousand words; requesting that her article be separately copyrighted in her name "since, after the OPC's book has gained its name and fame, I may wish to use this bit as part of something else of mine. Also I don't like publishers lifting my stuff without having to pay for it"; asking for Bruner's opinion: "Do let me know what you think of the piece as soon as you have a chance to read it. I'm ever the cub reporter."
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