HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("Poor old Papa/Ernest Hemingway") to Charles Thompson ("Dear Karl") in Key West; Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, 15 April [1943]. 5 pages, 4to., mostly black ink on five sheets of Hemingway's onion-skin stationery with his address imprinted in red, very wrinkled and creased, a few small fold holes in last sheet with loss of a couple of letters . [ With ]: (1) An autograph letter from Hemingway (signed in full) to Captain John Phelan of the Havana-Key West ferry boat, in Havana harbor, written in Havana, 9 October, n.y. [probably 1943], 2 pages, 8vo, in brown ink on tan stationery of the Hotel Ambos Mundos, wrinkled, first page a bit stained, with original envelope addressed by Hemingway (torn) ; (2) Typed letter signed from Max Perkins to Charles Thompson, New York, 8 November 1929, 1 page, 8vo, on Scribner's letterhead, with envelope and "With the Compliments of the Author" card : "I am sending you for Ernest, one of the copies in the limited edition of A Farewell to Arms ..." In June 1942 Hemingway had secretly armed his boat the Pilar as a Q-boat and began patroling for German submarines in the Caribbean, under the guise of scientists gathering specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. 15 April (to Thompson), requesting supplies and asking his correspondent down: "...We haven't made a real trip in a long while together Carl and you would like this. Are out most of the time working for Museum of Natural History...From now on is the best time for collecting [i.e., hunting for German submarines]. There is nobody I would rather have on such a collecting expedition than you and you would like the other members. We have all been working together since November and have done some very good scientific work...it is now that the real migration of the marlin and broadbill and the other big fish commences...You probably think Papa is nuts but really we could make a marvelous trip and I wish you would try to figure it...Marty [his third wife Martha Gellhorn] is about .2/3 through a novel. She hopes to finish in June and be off to the wars in August. The war news is damned good isn't it?..." 9 October (to Captain Phelan): "Would you mind turning this small tuna or albacore over to Charles Thompson when the ferry arrives in Key West? Could it be kept in the ice box until you get there? It is a specimen the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences asked me to send them and I wired Charles to have a box to ice it and send it to Philadelphia..." (3)
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("Poor old Papa/Ernest Hemingway") to Charles Thompson ("Dear Karl") in Key West; Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, 15 April [1943]. 5 pages, 4to., mostly black ink on five sheets of Hemingway's onion-skin stationery with his address imprinted in red, very wrinkled and creased, a few small fold holes in last sheet with loss of a couple of letters . [ With ]: (1) An autograph letter from Hemingway (signed in full) to Captain John Phelan of the Havana-Key West ferry boat, in Havana harbor, written in Havana, 9 October, n.y. [probably 1943], 2 pages, 8vo, in brown ink on tan stationery of the Hotel Ambos Mundos, wrinkled, first page a bit stained, with original envelope addressed by Hemingway (torn) ; (2) Typed letter signed from Max Perkins to Charles Thompson, New York, 8 November 1929, 1 page, 8vo, on Scribner's letterhead, with envelope and "With the Compliments of the Author" card : "I am sending you for Ernest, one of the copies in the limited edition of A Farewell to Arms ..." In June 1942 Hemingway had secretly armed his boat the Pilar as a Q-boat and began patroling for German submarines in the Caribbean, under the guise of scientists gathering specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. 15 April (to Thompson), requesting supplies and asking his correspondent down: "...We haven't made a real trip in a long while together Carl and you would like this. Are out most of the time working for Museum of Natural History...From now on is the best time for collecting [i.e., hunting for German submarines]. There is nobody I would rather have on such a collecting expedition than you and you would like the other members. We have all been working together since November and have done some very good scientific work...it is now that the real migration of the marlin and broadbill and the other big fish commences...You probably think Papa is nuts but really we could make a marvelous trip and I wish you would try to figure it...Marty [his third wife Martha Gellhorn] is about .2/3 through a novel. She hopes to finish in June and be off to the wars in August. The war news is damned good isn't it?..." 9 October (to Captain Phelan): "Would you mind turning this small tuna or albacore over to Charles Thompson when the ferry arrives in Key West? Could it be kept in the ice box until you get there? It is a specimen the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences asked me to send them and I wired Charles to have a box to ice it and send it to Philadelphia..." (3)
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