Hemingway, Ernest Autograph Letter Signed (“Ernest”) to his friend Jane Mason in Havana [Cooke, Montana, at the Nordquist L-Bar-T Ranch], 19 september [1932] Superb letter from Montana where Hemingway has been hunting. In the first two pages Hemingway writes of his experiences hunting ram: “We were sheep hunting when your letter came (saw 16 rams and climbed the godamndest peaks and spooked the rams every time on the stalk — you know — not the kind of stalk that broccoli grows on but the kind you make crawling on all fours across the face of a hill to frighten the sheep). Wonderful country but scary…” Hemingway continues with matters concerning arrangements for his son Bumby’s proposed visit and the chance that Jane might bring Bumby out if she doesn’t go abroad (“But don’t let the Bumby show influence your plans in the least because we can always get someone to bring him over…”). “…That was a masterly treatise and exhaustive treatise on fish and fauna of the Carribbean — damned fine report — it was a rotten shame to find the Bübi dog [Mason’s pet] killed. The late Mr. Kipling wrote a poem on the subject — will look it up…We feel very badly. It is a damned shame.” “About Hollywood, daughter, that is your decision to make — if you will always want to go there it is best to go young and give yourself all the breaks — I wouldn’t think you would like it — But I have never been there and know nothing about it and there are plenty of things people tell you that you won’t like that you like very much when you try them — It seems like a hell of a big lttle shop to oen but then if I could get down to 118 lbs and hand]t been Cecil Beaton-ed for a long time and were Mrs. George Grant Mason Jr. the notorious vanishing coed cream beauty of our times fed up on the tropics and with my dog killed why Hollywood by any other name would smell as sweet…” “…Anytime you’re broke you can sell the enclosed Mss. and buy one good meal and a skiff (maybe) and we can all follow the garbage scows together…Ernest.” Hemingway closes with the amusing remark: “Those giant dolphins aren’t our gold ones but the same we call porpoises (jesus what a handler of the English language is poor old papa!” Folio. 4 pages on 2 sheets of tan, unruled paper, in blue ink. Creased at folds, otherwise fine and crisp, with the accompanying envelope addressed in Hemingway’s hand, and signed in full on the envelope Price: USD 10,000.00 other currencies   order no. 31676    inquire

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