HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("Ernest") to Jane Mason in London; [Key West], 12 November [1932]. 4 pages, small 4to, in brown ink on three sheets of tan paper, slight fold creases; with the envelope (torn) hand-addressed by Hemingway . "YALE 7-0 OVER PRINCETON...PAPA ON A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH" Written, with the help of a bottle of Scotch, in a rambling and at times almost free-association style. Jane had gone to London where she intended to adopt a child. "So now it is November 12th and Yale 7-0 over Princeton in the 3rd quarter [from a radio broadcast] -- and your old friend Poor Old Papa on a bottle of Scotch...Poor Old Papa vs. Scotland (not broadcast) P.O.P. 3 - Scotland 4...don't sleep much -- but have finished 2 stories and 2500 words yesterday on one -- and 2,000 more on same today -- Then was sort of lonesome, or needed to go fishing or not to think so opened excellent Scotch -- (P.O.P. 4 - Scotland 0) -- will finish the story tomorrow tomorrow -- it is a very good one -- (I hope). The enclosed [probably a book review by Alexander Woollcott of the recently published Death in the Afternoon ] made me vomit a little bit -- you know -- delicately -- as in Little Women -- good old Louisa M[ay] Woolcott [sic] -- Remember the picture with Don on our old dinghy the Ile de France ? Another guy said I wrote it [the book] to make money -- Another hinted it was impotence (sublimation of something we impotents no puede hacer) ya lo creo . So anyway got a little sore and am going very good...Anyway, now, perhaps we go to N.Y. -- Bumby [his son] and I -- to see Messrs [Robert] Benchley, [Archibald] MacLeish etc -- was going to go before now but got started working -- Don't know whether we go or not -- That was a fine telegram you sent about the book..." "The letter is handicapped slightly by a tendency to dip the pen in the highball glass and drink the ink -- a tendency that will pass -- art passes all alone endures (all passed art alone endures)...In this are a few pictures from the hunt [the just completed stay in Montana]. It was a good hunt and was happy all the time...I count on next Spring's fishing more than anything...We are quite broke but excellent chance to sell title of this book to yr. old Joosh [Jewish] buddies in Holywood [sic] -- Maybe not too -- Not at all sure will go to N.Y. I need a little town life and to hear the language but might go later -- Depends on how work goes. I hope David [the intended adoptee] is a fine boy and what you want -- that you have a good trip -- and that God guards you very well -- (translated from the Spanish) you know -- in English that you have a good passage -- Ernest (ziz Eenglish langwige so difficul for us poor armericanos)..."
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("Ernest") to Jane Mason in London; [Key West], 12 November [1932]. 4 pages, small 4to, in brown ink on three sheets of tan paper, slight fold creases; with the envelope (torn) hand-addressed by Hemingway . "YALE 7-0 OVER PRINCETON...PAPA ON A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH" Written, with the help of a bottle of Scotch, in a rambling and at times almost free-association style. Jane had gone to London where she intended to adopt a child. "So now it is November 12th and Yale 7-0 over Princeton in the 3rd quarter [from a radio broadcast] -- and your old friend Poor Old Papa on a bottle of Scotch...Poor Old Papa vs. Scotland (not broadcast) P.O.P. 3 - Scotland 4...don't sleep much -- but have finished 2 stories and 2500 words yesterday on one -- and 2,000 more on same today -- Then was sort of lonesome, or needed to go fishing or not to think so opened excellent Scotch -- (P.O.P. 4 - Scotland 0) -- will finish the story tomorrow tomorrow -- it is a very good one -- (I hope). The enclosed [probably a book review by Alexander Woollcott of the recently published Death in the Afternoon ] made me vomit a little bit -- you know -- delicately -- as in Little Women -- good old Louisa M[ay] Woolcott [sic] -- Remember the picture with Don on our old dinghy the Ile de France ? Another guy said I wrote it [the book] to make money -- Another hinted it was impotence (sublimation of something we impotents no puede hacer) ya lo creo . So anyway got a little sore and am going very good...Anyway, now, perhaps we go to N.Y. -- Bumby [his son] and I -- to see Messrs [Robert] Benchley, [Archibald] MacLeish etc -- was going to go before now but got started working -- Don't know whether we go or not -- That was a fine telegram you sent about the book..." "The letter is handicapped slightly by a tendency to dip the pen in the highball glass and drink the ink -- a tendency that will pass -- art passes all alone endures (all passed art alone endures)...In this are a few pictures from the hunt [the just completed stay in Montana]. It was a good hunt and was happy all the time...I count on next Spring's fishing more than anything...We are quite broke but excellent chance to sell title of this book to yr. old Joosh [Jewish] buddies in Holywood [sic] -- Maybe not too -- Not at all sure will go to N.Y. I need a little town life and to hear the language but might go later -- Depends on how work goes. I hope David [the intended adoptee] is a fine boy and what you want -- that you have a good trip -- and that God guards you very well -- (translated from the Spanish) you know -- in English that you have a good passage -- Ernest (ziz Eenglish langwige so difficul for us poor armericanos)..."
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