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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Typed Letter Signed, to Jane Mason,
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Typed Letter Signed, to Jane Mason, wife of Pan American Airways Cuba director, G. Grant Mason, addressed "Poor dear old daughter" discussing his work on the story "Fathers and Sons" in Men Without Women, his family and their Havana residence, and his feelings about Esquire magazine. 3 1/2 pages, 8vo; fragile, toned, and with some separation, chipping along top edge, some tape repairs where thinning paper has split. With the original envelope. Not in Baker and presumably unpublished. Havana, 28 July 1933
- Notes: "It is July here and prickly heat. It seems a long time since anything was cool except drinks. And if this is a bad letter daughter just skip along and I''ll write along because on tal dia como hoy there''s no such thing as a good letter . . . Pauline has fixed this place up wonderfully. My work house coolest place in town. Bum [son John "Bumby"] in great shape. Griggy [son Gregory] understands everything but can''t talk. Would be a hell of a popular fellow if he could stay that way. . . . Worked like hell yesterday on story ("Fathers and Sons"). Started 7:30 and didn''t knock off until 3. Finished it. One I had to re-do for Max [Perkins]. Day before wrote 2500 words on fishing for that bludy [sic] de luxe magazine, sort of a quarterly like Fortune, to be for men and called of all lousy titles Esquire. Esquire my derrier [sic]. My derrier, Esq. . . ."
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