HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed letter signed ("Ernest" in pencil) to Jane Mason ("Dear Janey") in Havana; Key West, 21 July [1936]. 1 page, 4to, single-spaced on a sheet of poor quality tan paper, two pencilled holograph corrections (three words) and a nine-word pencilled holograph closing by Hemingway, a few small, faint dampspots, with the envelope (torn) addressed by him . "TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I FEEL NO GLOOMIER THAN I USUALLY DO ON IT" Hemingway had just arrived back in Key West from Bimini; on July 27 he and his family would leave by car for Piggott, Arkansas, and the Nordquist ranch in Wyoming. "Damn it daughter I kept waiting to write to thank you for the things [she had sent to Bimini] and they never came and never came and never came and then like Gregory's old man in the story they never came and never came. Never. The bastards. Neither the racks of lamb, nor the vegetables. Nada. But the papers, magazines and magazines did. So thank you just the same. And thank you for the [birthday] telegram which came this morning. Thank you very much Mrs. Mason...Have taken off 13 pounds...Have decided to abandon slobhood... Hope I wasn't too cross with you [at Bimini]. I'd gotten the people on my nerves jeebies and took it out on you. Jinny [Virginia Pfeiffer, his wife's sister] thinks you're a wonderful girl. I told her you were and are and that she had been seeing the best of you; the part we all used to see. Don't think I've seen you by yourself to talk to more than about a couple of times in two years..." "I'm not sore at you and I'm damned sorry I was cross to you. There's some things I don't like but it's a long time since I liked or disliked everything and I'd rather not be stuffy and get along. Today's my birthday and I feel no gloomier than I usually do on it [he had turned 37]. Plenty gloomy at that...My mother sent me a present which proved to be three towells [sic]. Now I've seen the time when I'd give quite a lot for three towells [sic] but I'm a son of a bitch if that was what I'd asked Santa Claus for today. Think the trouble is am getting ready to write again and have the bear with sore paw disposition..."
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed letter signed ("Ernest" in pencil) to Jane Mason ("Dear Janey") in Havana; Key West, 21 July [1936]. 1 page, 4to, single-spaced on a sheet of poor quality tan paper, two pencilled holograph corrections (three words) and a nine-word pencilled holograph closing by Hemingway, a few small, faint dampspots, with the envelope (torn) addressed by him . "TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I FEEL NO GLOOMIER THAN I USUALLY DO ON IT" Hemingway had just arrived back in Key West from Bimini; on July 27 he and his family would leave by car for Piggott, Arkansas, and the Nordquist ranch in Wyoming. "Damn it daughter I kept waiting to write to thank you for the things [she had sent to Bimini] and they never came and never came and never came and then like Gregory's old man in the story they never came and never came. Never. The bastards. Neither the racks of lamb, nor the vegetables. Nada. But the papers, magazines and magazines did. So thank you just the same. And thank you for the [birthday] telegram which came this morning. Thank you very much Mrs. Mason...Have taken off 13 pounds...Have decided to abandon slobhood... Hope I wasn't too cross with you [at Bimini]. I'd gotten the people on my nerves jeebies and took it out on you. Jinny [Virginia Pfeiffer, his wife's sister] thinks you're a wonderful girl. I told her you were and are and that she had been seeing the best of you; the part we all used to see. Don't think I've seen you by yourself to talk to more than about a couple of times in two years..." "I'm not sore at you and I'm damned sorry I was cross to you. There's some things I don't like but it's a long time since I liked or disliked everything and I'd rather not be stuffy and get along. Today's my birthday and I feel no gloomier than I usually do on it [he had turned 37]. Plenty gloomy at that...My mother sent me a present which proved to be three towells [sic]. Now I've seen the time when I'd give quite a lot for three towells [sic] but I'm a son of a bitch if that was what I'd asked Santa Claus for today. Think the trouble is am getting ready to write again and have the bear with sore paw disposition..."
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