HEMINGWAY MARY Two Typed Letters Signed Mary H to editors of

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HEMINGWAY, MARY. Two Typed Letters Signed, "Mary H.," to editors of the Overseas Press Club of America. The first, to Will Yolen, agreeing to write an essay for a proposed book project, and asking how serious the tone should be. The second, to "Dear Mr. Bruner," sending her essay on The Blitz [not present]. Each 1 page, small 4to, personal stationery; the first with minor paper clip stain at upper edge and horizontal fold. The first with the original envelope. New York, 15 February; 16 March 1964

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15 February 1964: ". . . I'm off in a couple of days for Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean for a couple weeks of fishing . . . .
"I have a piece on Fidel and Cuba, but it cannot Now Be Told because it involves friends of Ernest's and mine who are still there and it might make trouble for them.
"While I'm fishing, I'll keep groping around in the dank morass of my memory to dig up a piece about the Blitz which would have been censorable then. . . ."
In October of 1964, Mary Hemingway's essay, 'The Blitz: What Americans Could Not Be Told,' was published in I Can Tell It Now, edited by Brown and Bruner.