Typed letter signed

Lot 162
05.02.2026 10:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1540411
Lot 162 | Typed letter signed
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Typed letter signed ("Ernest Hemingway") to Green, Key West, 22 December 1936.

One page, 280 x 214 mm (moderate toning, small chip at lower right margin).

Hemingway discusses writing and leaving to cover the Spanish Civil War. In part: "I promised to do the piece and will do it sooner or later but also swore, last June, I wouldn't write anything for anybody until I finished this novel. Am in the stretch of it now. When it's done I want to go to Spain. ... When I've been over there will be able to write something worth writing." He left for Spain on 27 February 1937 and published To Have and Have Not the same year. His experience as a war correspondent formed the basis of For Whom the Bell Tolls, published in 1940.
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