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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Legal Contract
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Legal Contract concerning the dramatization of A Farewell to Arms by Lawrence Stallings. Five legal-sized folio sheets of carbon typescript, printed rectos only; laid into typed light blue cover stamped with address of Howard E. Reinheimer, Counsellor at Law, 11 E. 44th St, New York, few rust marks from paper clips; one provision is lined out in ink; with original mailing envelope from Scribner's which is labeled "Contracts Not Approved" in Hemingway's hand. New York, January 1930
- Notes: Listed in the Marcia & John Goin Collection of The Works of Hemingway as Item number III in Section One of Joseph The Provider catalogue, Santa Barbara, 1992. The contract is between Hemingway and Stallings and addresses the latter''s attempt to tie up all future dramatic rights to A Farewell To Arms, including television rights. His dramatization was a failure, closing just three weeks after it opened in New York in September 1930. The demise of the play did, however, open the way for a movie sale to Hollywood which netted the author $24,000, while the play''s advance royalties had only amounted to $750.
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