Three Telegrams from Hemingway to his wife, Mary
Price: $3,000.00
1957 - 1959, 1926. Very Good. 1) Sept. 2, 1959. Ernest to Mary. “Thanks hovehy letter stop got duplicate escopeta permit yesterday Algeciras stop no word from Chuck Atkinson stop hoping arrive Madrid tommorow wight leave word cohere you are if out wonderfoh about chip love from all to Carmen and Mister too much stop best love to my kitten kuss = Papa.” [All capitalized] 2) Sept. 26, 1959. Ernest to Mary. “We made it okay hope your train got through please wire imperator nines best love from all love big kitten = Hemingway / Madame Hemingway Hotel Ritz Paris. [All capitalized] 3) Oct. 12, 1959. Ernest to Mary. “Hope good trip and that every things fine workeng hardest pieces very difficult one to write biggest love papa.” [All lowercase] 4) March 2, 1957. Mary to Ernest. “Dearest Beaties address 105 East Deleware Place Love Mary” [All capitalized] *105 East Delaware Place is the address of The Whitehall Hotel in Chicago.
Three telegrams from Ernest Hemingway to his fourth wife, Mary, and one telegram from Mary to Ernest. Very good, with some small creases and tears, light soiling, markings in pen and pencil, and old tape to paper strips on Sept. 26, 1959 telegram. Overall, an excellent little trove of Hemingway’s telegrams. Housed in a custom navy clamshell box, with spine lettered in gilt, and a navy folder. These telegrams were written by Hemingway to his fourth and final wife, Mary, just two years before he committed suicide in 1961. In the telegrams, he checks in with his wife from Paris, Málaga, and Havana, and signs them affectionately, as “Papa” and “Big Kitten.” In the longest telegram (~30 words), Hemingway mentions Chuck Atkinson, his longtime friend from Idaho, who was with Hemingway the day before he died. Ernest and Mary were married from 1946 until Ernest’s death in 1961. After his death, Mary became his literary executor and was responsible for publishing important posthumous works like A Moveable Feast (1964) and Islands in the Stream (1970).
