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Lot 890
‘The present end on the bull piece is OK if anything should happen to me as things sometimes do’ HEMINGWAY ERNEST: (1899-1961) American novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1954. An excellent A.L.S., Ernest Hemingway, three pages (separate leaves), 4to, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula (Havana), Cuba, 2nd June 1960, to Edward K. Thompson. Hemingway thanks his correspondent for their letter and informs him 'Finally finished 108,746 words of first draft….It is being typed and will start correction, cutting and any necessary re-write', adding that he will have to go to Spain 'to get what I need for the end and to check certain things nobody will write or tell me on the telephone' and explaining 'They have put through a really severe decree about tampering with the bulls horns making the breeders responsible even if it is done after the bulls leave the ranches', suggesting that if the decree is enforced he does not believe that Luis Miguel will fight in Spain during the summer. Hemingway returns to the subject of his piece, 'When I have the present MSS in shape (we you) can decide how long the Antonio - Luis - Miguel piece originally contracted for should run now…..Bill Lang said you would like to see all of it rather than have me cut the part that was contracted for. This is OK with me as long as it does not change the fact that the article was contracted for and that I am giving more than I contracted to deliver. This must be worked out as I only took an advance to bind the contract. This is not meant to sound stuffy', also remarking 'The present end on the bull piece is OK if anything should happen to me as things sometimes do' and concluding 'Please check with me if you want to use any work sheets or MSS. Photostat as Bill Lang suggested so nothing will be run that, out of context, might make me trouble in Spain with work still pending there'. Accompanied by the original envelope. A letter of good content for its literary references relating to Hemingway's fascination with bullfighting. A few small, very minor staple holes and rust marks to the upper left corner of each page, VGEdward Kramer Thompson (1907-1996) American writer and editor who was employed as the managing editor of Life magazine from 1949-61. Will Lang Jr. (1914-1968) American journalist, a bureau head for Life magazine and friend of Hemingway.Luis Miguel Dominguin (1926-1996) Spanish matador who, in 1959, became engaged in a bullfighting rivalry with his brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez (1932-1998) which was chronicled by Hemingway. In 1959 Hemingway had been commissioned by Life magazine to write a series of bullfighting articles which were supposed to be no more than 10,000 words. The manuscript grew much larger and Hemingway sought the assistance of A. E. Hotchner in order to reduce the work to 40,000 words (it eventually became 30,000 words and was published in three consecutive installments by Life during September 1960). Scribner's also agreed to a full-length book version of almost 130,000 words which was published posthumously in June 1985 under the title The Dangerous Summer.
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