HEMINGWAY ERNEST Autograph Letter Signed to Arnold Gingrich

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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Autograph Letter Signed, to Arnold Gingrich, editor of Esquire magazine, discussing business, Hemingway's daily life in Havana, fishing, Dos Passos, and other matters. 7 pages, 8vo; Hotel Ambos Mundos stationery, a few creases. With the original envelope. Baker 390-91. Havana, 24 May 1933

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"Dear Mr. Gingrich: I'll drop the Mr. if it means anything to you but have a strong tendency to Mr. anyone that I do not know well personally and prefer to be Mistered in turn. This may be a hangover from different times or it may be a protest against the Ernie, Spike, Ray, Bill etc-ing of Hearst organizations and the Horace, Tommy, Max, Whitney-ing of (Scribner) Publishing. I remember Max Perkins, of whom I am very fond, asking me in a letter when I would stop calling him Mr. Perkins. I wrote him that it would cost me at least $10,000 to stop calling him Mister . . . Have caught 29 marlin swordfish-caught 7 last Saturday (believe a record) . . . Dos Passos was very sick . . . you could reach him care of Gerald Murphy, Villa America, Cap d'Antibes, France . . . I was frank about the title (Esquire) not to be snooty nor because you know my own title was bad, but because, I believe you asked me to be. You should know what you are after--It may be all right."