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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Two autograph letters signed (the first: "Ernest" with "Papa" and "Ernest Hemingway" in a postscript; the second: "Papa" "Ernest Hemingway") to Virginia Viertel ("My dearest Jige," "Jigée", Nice, 29 and 30 December 1949. Together 4 pages, 8vo, in ink on three sheets of light tan stationery of the Hotel Ruhl. "I LOVE YOU TOO DAMNED MUCH AND ALWAYS WILL" 29 December: "Please forgive no-good letter this morning. It is still raining and we had a good lunch and I write to you from where saw you last...I can beat this but will not beat it down. It's a wonderful distinction anyway to be the loneliest worst dressed man in the world. Please know how much I love you, Ernest." At bottom margin Hemingway has added: "Papa = Ernest Hemingway - his mark [here Hemingway has drawn a sad-faced self-caricature] etc." 30 December: "Raining and blowing hard today again. Wrote all necessary this morning and lunched well...and now write you for pleasure and for everything. Write at Bar and if you were here it would be the same as if you were here. I mean you are here. While I kid myself. Let's keep it that way. Last night we went to Monte Carlo, a sad joint...AWFUL people, all with rolls of fat on their necks that would scare you...This is a three day storm so we may be here tomorrow. I think it is silly to go through the beauty parts of Italy with wind-shield wiper and fog. It is raining hard too...I love you too damned much and always will. I remember every move your face made since I ever saw you and remember every word you ever said: uncritical or critical and love them all as you/me might love the good marbles in your pocket when you are a boy with good shooting marbles in your pocket..." (2)