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HEMINGWAY Ernest. (1899-1961).
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HEMINGWAY Ernest (1899-1961).
L.A.S. "Papa" and "EH", in margin of a L.S. "Mary" from his wife, Cuba August 25, 1954, to their friend Kit Figgis| 1 page in-4 headed Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba| in English.
While Hemingway is recovering from his plane crash in Uganda (January 1954), Mary Hemingway, in her typed letter, asks Kit Figgis, who lives in Africa, to check the taxidermy of several animals that "Papa" has killed, including a lion at Kimana Swamp, an impala at Salengai, a kudu and a buffalo at Magadi, and so on.
In the margin, Hemingway adds, in his own handwriting, this long postscript: "Dear Kit: Sorry to bother you with this but it seems bad for Mary to run any chance of losing her trophies [Wife's Game Trophies] she worked so hard for. With O.M. Rees as he is and Philip Percival laid up we turn to you to get the gen. Hope everything is well with you the chiltern [sic] and old Larry. Will write you properly soon. I do so hope everything OK with my god-child and you. Love Papa". He adds: "Excuse bad penmanship. Am scribbling this PS with the back of a Town and Country as a desk sitting in the old big chair. All parts getting in good shape. Mary fine and well. Our love to Ray and his Mary also. We plan to be back by this time next year. EH."
Mary in turn takes up the pen to give news of her husband: "Papa is very much better and improving - he was pretty beat up - M."
L.A.S. "Papa" and "EH", in margin of a L.S. "Mary" from his wife, Cuba August 25, 1954, to their friend Kit Figgis| 1 page in-4 headed Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba| in English.
While Hemingway is recovering from his plane crash in Uganda (January 1954), Mary Hemingway, in her typed letter, asks Kit Figgis, who lives in Africa, to check the taxidermy of several animals that "Papa" has killed, including a lion at Kimana Swamp, an impala at Salengai, a kudu and a buffalo at Magadi, and so on.
In the margin, Hemingway adds, in his own handwriting, this long postscript: "Dear Kit: Sorry to bother you with this but it seems bad for Mary to run any chance of losing her trophies [Wife's Game Trophies] she worked so hard for. With O.M. Rees as he is and Philip Percival laid up we turn to you to get the gen. Hope everything is well with you the chiltern [sic] and old Larry. Will write you properly soon. I do so hope everything OK with my god-child and you. Love Papa". He adds: "Excuse bad penmanship. Am scribbling this PS with the back of a Town and Country as a desk sitting in the old big chair. All parts getting in good shape. Mary fine and well. Our love to Ray and his Mary also. We plan to be back by this time next year. EH."
Mary in turn takes up the pen to give news of her husband: "Papa is very much better and improving - he was pretty beat up - M."