Clara Gatzert Spiegel was a longtime friend of Hemingway. Her husband (of mail-order catalogue fame) was in the Italian Ambulance Corps with Ernest in 1918. When they divorced, she moved to Ketchum Idaho near the Hemingways. She was herself a hunter, sportswoman, and author; she helped Hemingway type and edit For Whom the Bell Tolls.


Green Hills of Africa. Later Edition. New York, 1953. inscribed by hemingway: "to clara who has seen and been in africa , this attempt to do the same / with love / Papa" The Hemingway Reader. Later Edition. New York, 1953. inscribed by hemingway: To Clara on her birthday with love from Papa Ketchum 1958 December 6." Johns. Valley of Life: Africa's Great Rift. Introduction by Patrick Hemingway. Inscribed and Signed in Swahili and with a TLS by Patrick Hemingway laid in. Charlottesville, (1991) Buckley. Ernest. Inscribed for Spiegel and Signed twice by Peter Buckley. New York, 1978 Burrill. Hemingway: The Toronto Years. Inscribed and Signed by Burrill for Spiegel; a photo of her also laid in. (Ontario, 1994).