Hemingway, Ernest Typed Letter Signed ("Ernie") to George Brown, his boxing coach andtrainer, regarding a visit from several Brookyn Dodgers, and his fightwith pitcher Hugh Casey Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, march 3, 1942 Superb letter from Hemingway in fine fettle, writing to his boxing coach about a visit from the Brooklyn Dodgers, which ended in a fight in Hemingway's living room: "Early this morning I though of sending you a wire to see if you could come down and get me in shape in about ten days to fight a guy named Hughey Casey who pitches for the Dodgers. We went five one-minute ones last night and I was under the impression that I needed a lot of work in order to come up against Casey again [his pencilled note: "Maybe he still thinks he can beat me but I really know he can't if I get out and run and lay off. Have drunk very little all month except twice and have been feeling good"], but when I saw him today it looks as though there won't have to be any again. So it is all right. Marty [Martha Gellhorn] is still very sore about it on account of it taking place in the living room which it seems took a lot of trouble to construct and maintain and will perhaps never be quite so good again...[pencilled note: "My left middle tow is broke but otherwise nothing but lots of loose skin on all the old marbles in my mouth. I had him down twice and he hit me with everything he had all the time and it didn't do me any harm. You would have enjoyed it. All the punches landed and there were lots of them he being a crowder like I have become"] "There are a lot of really good guys on the Dodgers [pencilled note: "Casey, Billy Herman, Augie Gulan, Rizzo, Art Davis, Larry French"]. We have shot pigeons against them three times and have now won $115 odd from them in the three shoots, and I would hate to think that any bitterness had sprung up from that... In his pencilled post scriptum, Hemingway adds: "Don't say anything about the Casey business. REALLY. It was one of those good ones not the publicity kind. I know I can beat him because he is throwing hundreds of right hands...He is one of those good Irishmen that likes to fight and is sure he can beat anybody..." 4to. 1-1/2pp., single spaced, with numerous marginal notations and a half- page autograph note in pencil. On personal stationery of Finca Vigia. Very good in custom brown morocco-backed protective case Price: USD 12,500.00 other currencies   order no. 35091    inquire

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