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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Autograph Letter Signed, to Arnold Gingrich, Editor of Esquire magazine, discussing bus...
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Autograph Letter Signed, to Arnold Gingrich, editor of Esquire magazine, discussing business, Hemingway's daily life in Havana, fishing, Dos Passos, and other matters. 7 pages, 8vo; Hotel Ambos Mundos stationery, a few creases. With the original envelope. Baker 390-91. Havana, 24 May 1933
- Notes: "Dear Mr. Gingrich: I''ll drop the Mr. if it means anything to you but have a strong tendency to Mr. anyone that I do not know well personally and prefer to be Mistered in turn. This may be a hangover from different times or it may be a protest against the Ernie, Spike, Ray, Bill etc-ing of Hearst organizations and the Horace, Tommy, Max, Whitney-ing of (Scribner) Publishing. I remember Max Perkins, of whom I am very fond, asking me in a letter when I would stop calling him Mr. Perkins. I wrote him that it would cost me at least $10,000 to stop calling him Mister . . . Have caught 29 marlin swordfish-caught 7 last Saturday (believe a record) . . . Dos Passos was very sick . . . you could reach him care of Gerald Murphy, Villa America, Cap d''Antibes, France . . . I was frank about the title (Esquire) not to be snooty nor because you know my own title was bad, but because, I believe you asked me to be. You should know what you are after--It may be all right."
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