Ernest Hemingway
Schriftsteller, 1899-1961
Hemingway war einer der erfolgreichsten und bekanntesten US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1953 erhielt er den Pulitzer-Preis für seine Novelle „Der alte Mann und das Meer“ und 1954 den Literaturnobelpreis. Er betätigte sich nicht nur als Schriftsteller, sondern war auch Reporter und Kriegsberichterstatter, zugleich Abenteurer, Hochseefischer und Großwildjäger. Von 1921 bis 1927 war er in Paris für den Toronto Star und andere Magazine als Korrespondent tätig. In dieser Zeit lernte er auch weitere wichtige Vertreter der Moderne kennen, wie etwa Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot und F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mit letzterem verband Hemingway eine sehr enge Freundschaft.
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American writer and Nobel Laureate (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed (“Ernest Hemingway”), to Mrs. Ralph Connable. Kenilworth Avenue, Oak Park (Illinois). 6 pp. on 6 leaves. 8vo, with the original envelope.
22.000 €
(104978)
An exceptional early letter of considerable biographical importance, written at a decisive moment in Hemingway’s development, and addressed to Harriet Connable, one of the most influential figures in his early career. Composed shortly after his stay with the Connable family in Toronto—where he took his first significant steps into professional journalism—the letter vividly captures the voice of the young Hemingway, still poised between youthful uncertainty and the beginnings of his literary ambition.
He expresses deep gratitude for the Connables’ hospitality: “You were awfully good to me […] the priceless time I had”, while at the same time revealing his characteristic restlessness and desire for experience. In particularly striking passages, Hemingway outlines plans to ship out as a seaman and travel to the Far East: “We will make 70 seeds a month and should hit Yokohama with quite a little money […] I am going to try and sign on as a stoker […] I’m getting my passport for China, Japan and India”. These remarks offer a remarkable early glimpse of the adventurous impulse that would later shape both his life and literary identity. Equally notable is the emotional warmth of the letter, reflecting the profound personal bond between Hemingway and the Connable family, whose support proved instrumental at this formative stage: “I miss Toronto and you and Mr. Connable and Dorothy and Ralph a lot […] the very nicest people I have ever known”. The tone combines sincerity, humour, and self-awareness, culminating in the disarming admission: “This letter is too long I know”. The present letter is accompanied by the original envelope, addressed in Hemingway’s hand, and further annotated by Ralph Connable Jr., adding an additional layer of historical immediacy. Harriet Connable had brought Hemingway to Toronto in 1919 and facilitated his work for the Toronto Star, thereby playing a crucial role in his transition from aspiring writer to professional journalist. Letters of this early period—particularly those documenting his relationship with the Connables—are of considerable rarity and importance. A highly attractive and unusually substantial early Hemingway letter, rich in autobiographical content and offering a rare insight into the formative experiences and ambitions of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers..
American novelist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961). Signed and inscribed photograph (on the verso of a bullfighter’s image). Pamplona. 125 : 90 mm.
8.500 €
(93497)
A privately taken photograph of Hemingway (105 : 75 mm) at Pamplona with English visitors Olive and Doreen Mills, unsigned. All three smiling at the photographer’s lense. There is a photograph of the Spanish bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez surrounded by a group of people. This photograph is signed, inscribed, and dated by Hemingway: „To Doreen with all good wishes always | Ernesto Hemingway | Pamplona | 12/7/59“. Hemingway visited Pamplona eight times between 1924-1959 and he stayed on his last visit to Pamplona from July 7-14, 1959. Included is also a photograph showing Antonio Ordóñez, the famous Spanish bullfighter, signed, inscribed on the image.
Ordóñez met a number of writers and actors, and he also starred in a few films. Antonio was a long time friend of Ernest Hemingway, whom he called Father Ernesto. Hemingway wrote an account of Ordóñez's rivalry with the matador Luis Miguel Dominguín (also Ordóñez's brother-in-law) titled The Dangerous Summer..
American novelist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961). Signed and inscribed photograph (on the verso of a bullfighter’s image). Pamplona. 114 : 88 mm.
7.500 €
(93498)
A privately taken photograph of Hemingway (75 : 105 mm) at Pamplona with English visitors Olive and Doreen Mills, unsigned. All three smiling at the photographer’s lense. There is a photograph of the Spanish bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez surrounded by a group of people. This photograph is signed, inscribed, and dated by Hemingway: „To Olive | always | Ernesto Hemingway | Pamplona | 12/7/59“. Hemingway visited Pamplona eight times between 1924-1959 and he stayed on his last visit to Pamplona from July 7-14, 1959. Ordóñez met a number of writers and actors, and he also starred in a few films.
Antonio was a long time friend of Ernest Hemingway, whom he called Father Ernesto. Hemingway wrote an account of Ordóñez's rivalry with the matador Luis Miguel Dominguín (also Ordóñez's brother-in-law) titled The Dangerous Summer..
American novelist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961). Collection of 2 typed letters (1 with some autograph lines, both signed ("Ernie"). San Francisco de Paula (Cuba). Large 4to. Altogether 2½ pp. on 3 ff. With one autograph envelope. On Hemingway's personal Finca Vigia stationery.
12.500 €
(44185/BN30219)
To George Brown, the owner of a gymnasium in Manhattan, Hemingway's personal trainer, boxing coach, and friend. - I: Hemingway's affection for his sporting pal is evident in this revealing and highly personal letter, written shortly before Ernest and Mary left for an African safari: "How are you kid? Mary sends her best. We are fine and in very good shape and think of you often. Were out on a trip together on the boat for two weeks and we go to bed every night after it gets dark and have plenty of time to talk and to sleep good [...]".
Hemingway then gives news of his sons, and mentions his youngest son ("Gig"), who, in his early twenties, was turning violently hostile to his father: "I am sorry I spoke against Gig since he is a friend of yours and used to be of mine as well as my favorite son. But he changed very strange very fast. As bad as though the devil was managing him. I couldn't ever see him again; not even to go and see him hanged. But if he seems good to you, O.K. I haven't heard from him since last November when he came of age [...]" (Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, May 12, 1953). - II: Written from his sickbed. Preparations were still being made for the film mentioned above, and Hemingway had spent September trying to get actions shots of leaping marlins for the producer Leland Hayward. Apparently, too, Hemingway was making an effort to get Brown involved in getting Spencer Tracy in shape, for he writes: "I am very sorry about [Peter] Viertel [wrote the screenplay] behaving so carelessly. He is a very selfish boy but I think he has a little bit of an excuse in that he was with Zinneman[n] on the script and was expecting you out there. While Zinneman[n] was down here we discussed the whole thing about your getting Spencer in shape and agreed it was absolutely necessary and we spoke about it again on the long distance phone […]" (ibid., November 25, 1955; with several autograph lines in pencil)..
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Signed and dated album page.
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Nice signed „With best wishes | Ernest Hemingway“ and dated album page with an image attached to it. Slightly irregular trimmed borders. Some age toning.
Autograph letter signed (“Ernest”), to Dorothy Connable.
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A vivid and highly personal letter from the year of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize, containing extensive and unusually candid remarks on literary biography, privacy, and authorship. Writing to Dorothy Connable, a close acquaintance from his early Toronto years, Hemingway vehemently criticises Charles A. Fenton, then engaged in one of the first scholarly studies of his life: “The man Fenton is one of those Jr. G. Men who think that literary history […] lies in old laundry lists […] I could have written 3 good stories in the time he cost me”. He complains of repeated invasions of his privacy and the distortion of facts, noting that even after extensive assistance Fenton “retained all his misinformation and gossip”. The letter offers a striking reflection on the vulnerability of the living author: “It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive […] You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful”. Hemingway further insists on the strictly private nature of his early years in Toronto, sharply rejecting any external appropriation of this formative period. In addition, he writes about his son John (“Bumby”) and his wartime service, recalling with characteristic irony that he was “the only person I ever knew to parachute into occupied France with his fly rod”, and comments on his recent literary success, including The Old Man and the Sea. The letter concludes on a nostalgic note, evoking the shared past in Toronto and expressing a desire to write about it himself rather than leaving it to others. In a revealing postscript, Hemingway calls his own letter “stupid”, yet admits to having been deeply moved by Connable’s message. Dorothy Connable was the daughter of Harriet Connable, who played a decisive role in Hemingway’s early career by bringing him to Toronto in 1919 and facilitating his work for the Toronto Star. The present letter thus connects Hemingway’s late reflections with a formative phase of his life. A document of exceptional biographical interest, illuminating Hemingway’s complex attitude towards literary scholarship, authorship, and personal memory.
Eigenh. Albumblatt mit U.
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"To Richard Ehm | with all good wishes". – Mit alt montiertem Portrait (Zeitungsausschnitt).
Exceptional group of four letters from Hemingway to his close friend Guy Hickok.
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Exceptional group of four letters from Hemingway to his close friend Guy Hickok, comprising one ALS, two partial autograph letters, and a one-page TLS. The longest ALS, signed “Ernest,” nine pages on five sheets, May 7, [1931], was written aboard the S.S. Volendam of the Holland-America Line. In part: “When my kidney was being weird had to give up drinking for about 6 weeks but now can drink and have drunk for ever since a year ago last February—I may have made a certain amt. of dough which has all been give away, loaned or spent but I am a son of a bitch if I have become respectable and no later than last winter was forced to sleep all night on the front porch—not being a good size for Pauline to carry up stairs—and on going to church the next morning was supposed to be healed…just because I had bumped into the holy water fount, that I saw the car was standing with the top down and the 3/4 empty bottle very visible (it had been invisible in the dark) in front of the church with the French nameplate to identify it! Don’t want to claim to be a drunk like you but have not become respectable Gros—The reason I didn't write you about the book is because it is hard enough to write it without writing about it. But listen if you will come down to Madrid you can read it typed…besides which we could see who can drink and who not and see the bullfights—The dope is this…will go to Madrid and work like a bastard on this book until finished—Have 280 some pages done—most to be written over and 1/3 or more to be added—I think you’ll like the damn book.” He goes on to discuss his travel plans and the repayment of a loan, before discussing an arm injury suffered in Montana: “I couldn't write then because my arm was still paralyzed. Have only been able to write since 3 weeks. It will be absolutely all right if keep after it. Anyway can shoot, fish and write with it now, but can't sock anybody.” Here, he sketches a diagram of his arm’s range of motion. Hemingway also provides a sketch of his new home in Key West, pointing out his favorite features, including a “flat roof, see all over town and sea.” The second, a partial autograph letter in pencil, unsigned, one page both sides, June 18, [1935], in part: “Listen stupid when you get in a money jam why in hell don’t let me know?…God dammit I was always suspicious of that Syndicate job…Gingrich of Esquire is coming here July 3-6 to fish and I will talk to him about your staff.” The third, a partial autograph letter in pencil, signed “Ernest” and “E. Hemingway [within his address],” one page, no date, in part: “Address here is E. Hemingway, c/o Captain George D. Kreidt, 1437 S.W. 5th Street, Miami, he brings mail on pilot boat once a week. Just got Mary’s letter last night. Don’t be afraid to cash this check as have 438 in bank by latest statement. Also 1000 coming in on July 1.” The fourth, a TLS signed in pencil, “Hemingstein,” one page, no date, in part: “It was swell to hear from you and thanks the hell of a lot for sending me the 100 bucks. I appreciate it like hell and know how damned hard it is to get money together in chunks as big as that. It came in damned handy because have been writing on this novel since last March First and during that time make no dough. Had seventy four bucks in my bank account when got your hundred.” At the conclusion, Hemingway jots down his Cuban address: “Address, Hotel Ambos Mundos, Havana—Cuba.” Also includes three letters in another hand (apparently dictated by Hemingway) as well as one unsigned typed letter, frequently referencing loans between the two. In overall very good to fine condition, with tears to the bottom of the typed letter. A young Ernest Hemingway first met the recipient of these letters, Guy Hickok (addressed here as “Gros”) in the early 1920s when they were both acting as foreign correspondents for North American newspapers in Paris. Hemingway, working for the Toronto Star, began what would become an enduring friendship with the good-natured Hickok, who was on assignment for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Hickok even provided the inspiration for Hemingway's short story ‘Che Ti Dice La Patria?’ (collected in Men Without Women, 1927). This fabulous correspondence is congenial, unrestrained, and mildly profane, and lends tremendous insight into Hemingway’s life and work.
Autograph envelope signed.
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Envelope addressed to „Monique Lange de chez Gallimard“ with his signature and address on the verso of the envelop „E. Hemingway Apartado 67 Malaga Espagne“.
Eigenh. Albumblatt geschrieben unterhalb seines Portrait mit Unterschrift.
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Das montierte Porträt stammt aus dem Life Magazine vom 8. November 1954, das sich auf acht Seiten dem gerade gekürten Literaturnobelpreisträger desselben Jahres widmete. Das ikonische Photo wurde von Leonard McCombe in Hemingways kubanischem Domizil aufgenommen. – Die obere rechte Ecke des Trägerkartons leicht knickspurig.