Gellhorn, Martha Collection of 13 Typed Letters and one Autograph Letter, all signed("Marty") to George Brown ("Flash"), who was Hemingway's and Martha'strainer, tennis partner, and friend Sun Valley, Idaho, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, and one from Washington, D.C., on White House stationery, oct 18, 1941 - dec. 2, 1946 A fascinating glimpse into the marriage of Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway in this series of letters from the journalist, war-time correspondent, novelist, and, for five years, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway - all but the final letter written while she and Hemingway were together. As George Brown was their most athletic friend - Hemingway's boxing coach and personal trainer, Martha's tennis and shooting partner - and her letters are filled with humorous reports of their physical condition, orders for Brown's rubber reducing pants, etc. "...our weights are fairly okay. I can}t seem to get under 127 and Ernest can't get under 215...But we are definitelyt out of the stylish stout class, and into the husky category. I wish I were one of those delicate wan women, looking like a piece of transparent paper and able to eat a horse and still apear frail and tubercular..." "...I returned [from Europe] weighing 121 pounds, and feeling slightly more glamorous than Miss Dietrich. After two weeks at home I weigh 123-1/2 but am not going to gain more. Ernest on the other hand looks exactly like Toto the Gorilla, and weighs about 230 I think and that, plus his flowing white beard, has made him into a phenomenon..." And again: "Ernest has a black and white beard and looks like Moses if Moses had been a seagoing man, and he weighs 234 pounds. He is so big around the middle that he has allmosrt gotten out of the human into the whale class...It is of course ghastly for him to weigh so much but I don't know what to do about it; the only way he could lose would be to cut down on liquor and really take exercise and I guess only you can make him do that. And you are not here. So hell..." At one point she speculates on rumors that Hemingway has a mistress: "He is now so sick of Tom Collinses that he has a tendency to be nauseated when he sees anything pale yellow. I see by the gossip columns that Ernest is supposed to have an unknown 19 year old Russian actress down here: he is taking picture of her himself, as a film test for the part of Maria. If she is here, God knows where she is keeping herself. I wish she would get out of the basement or wherever she is living and come upstairs..." (HEMINGWAY, ERNEST) 4to. In all 16pp. Generally very good to fine. With two accompanying envelopes Price: USD 5,000.00 other currencies   order no. 35131    inquire

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