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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Typescript of Green Hills of Africa. 323 pages, 4to, clean carbon copy typed by Jane Armstrong, double-spaced on onion-skin paper, mild marginal discoloration to first and last pages, slight nicks and tears to a few edges, with the original box for the typing paper in a custom-made cloth folding case with the Hemingway letters and telegram, etc. below, the first page typed heading: "By Ernest Hemingway, Key West Florida, U.S. First Serial Rights Only." During late 1934 and into 1935 Hemingway was crafting--the result of his African safari the previous year--"an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action using the technique of a novel to describe the action" ( Green Hills of Africa ). Hemingway's treatment of this African trip was essentially the first non-fiction novel, published later in 1935. Working closely with him as the typist of his holograph manuscript was Jane Armstrong, who, with her husband Richard, head of the International News Service in Havana, had become close friends of Hemingway and his (second) wife Pauline. The friendship, which began in the early 1930s was to stretch into the '40s, and Jane later became a close friend of Hemingway's third wife Martha Gellhorn. In appreciation of her typing, Hemingway gave the original holograph manuscript of Green Hills of Africa to Jane Armstrong (the manuscript is now at the University of Virginia). No other complete typescript of the book is known to exist in a single place: between their holdings, the Kennedy Library and the University of Delaware can form another copy of the typescript. [With:] HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Two typed letters signed ("Ernest" in pencil) to Richard and Jane Armstrong (the first) and to Richard Armstrong (the second) in Havana; Key West, 5 January and 8 December 1935. Together, 2 pages, 4to, single-spaced, date, place and two postscripts (totalling 52 words) all by Hemingway in pencil, both on inexpensive tan paper, slight marginal nicks, with envelopes (one with address in holograph). With a telegram (10 January 1935) from Hemingway to Jane Armstrong (stating he has arrived back in Key West from Arkansas), and carbon copies of three typed letters from Jane to Hemingway mostly concerning the typing of the Green Hills of Africa manuscript (4 and 10 January 1935 and 5 April 1945 from Kenya). "MAX PERKINS AND DOS WHO HAVE READ IT LIKE IT VERY MUCH" 5 February: "I haven't written to thank Jane for the swell type-ing [ sic ] job because I have been waiting until I can send ms., i.e. the HOLOGRAPH [which Jane Armstrong termed the manuscript]. Think of old Hem having written Holographs all these years and not knowing it. As soon as I definately get it pared down and in Scribner's hands will send it [the original manuscript] over... It was a beautiful job of figuring out what the hell my holograph meant and I appreciate it very much. Max Perkins and Dos [John Dos Passos] who have read it like it very much and I am beginning to feel better about it. I was so damned pleased that you both liked it but was afraid maybe Jane liked it because she likes Africa and that Dick liked it because he likes or liked to drink. I have cut considerable garden manure and night soil out of it but have left in the Gulf Stream as you requested [there are also many differences between the typescript and the published version]..." Hemingway goes on to request that Richard get hold of Carlos Gutierrez (later his mate on the "Pilar") and have him rig baits (here he gives numerous specific directions) and asks Richard to photograph them: "I have promised to write a chapter on Cuban marlin fishing from a big snot and money limit edition book on Deep Sea Fishing due out the first of May and my copy due in on Feb. 15--They want to reproduce how we rig our baits..." Armstrong complied with the request as twelve photographs appear in Hemingway's chapter "Marlin off Cuba" in American Big Game Fishing, published by t