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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. An autograph letter signed ("Poor old Poppa" in ink) to Jane Mason ("Dear Madame") and a typed letter signed ("Ernest" in pencil) to Jane and Grant Mason ("Dear Citizens") in Havana; written from Havana and Key West, 14 June [1933] and 10 June 1934. Together 2 pages, 4to; the first in ink on pictorial letterhead of the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana, slight fold creases, with the envelope hand-addressed by Hemingway; the second on poor quality tan paper, a vertical V-shaped cut in the center injuring about six letters; place, date, a six-word insertion, and a seven-word closing in Hemingway's pencilled holograph, with the stamped envelope with address typed by him. "AM ON PAGE 100 [OF 'GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA']" In his autograph letter of 14 June [1933], Hemingway writes to Jane at the British-American Clinic in Havana. In early June, Jane had either jumped or fell from the low balcony of her home (a few days earlier she had been in a car accident in which she, her son Tony, and Hemingway's sons Patrick and Bumby had narrowly escaped serious injury). "The writer of these few lines having taken a purgative, sent his one suit to be cleaned and pressed and retired to bed with a filthy throat presents what are left of his compliments and desires to tell Madame that he will not be able to present them in person this afternoon as he had hoped, but that he hopes Madame has not passed too bad a day and will have a good night..." 10 June 1934 (his letter to Jane and her husband Grant): "...The boat [the Pilar ] is good. Much better sea boat than Josie's even and lots of comfort moderno. Will go 16 miles and can troll all day on ten gallons with the little motor. Big motor uses about 15 in a day's trolling but quiet as a watch ticking. Turn in its own length. It's swell below--lots of room...It is cool here and blowing a big breeze since about a week. Gulf full of sailfish. We caught one that weighed 119½ lbs (11½) bigger than the Atlantic record. Been catching lots with the boat going out in the afternoon after working and coming in at dark. Been working [writing] hard and thank god no bloody visitors for about ten days. Want to come over [to Havana] to fish as soon as get this work done and the big fish start. Am on page 100 [of Green Hills of Africa ] and think it will run maybe another hundred. Maybe less...Wish we would get lots of east wind and current and get the run of the little fish over and then have a fine july and august without hurricanes and what do you want for xmas Mr. and Mrs. Mason yourselves?..." (2)