Key West, Florida. Information about various editions of his books, thoughts on Cohn's bibliography.

New York. Hemingway's ideas on what an author should write, thoughts on Gertrude Stein and critics, Allen Tate and Edmund Wilson; will not sign or write for the bibliography.

[Cooke City, Montana]. Typed questions sent by Cohn to Hemingway, with the autograph answers and a letter written by Hemingway. Also comments by Hemingway about the book he is writing, and about the copyrighting of poems in Der Querschnitt.

Cooke City, Montana. Contains a comment by Hemingway that autograph manuscripts of almost all his stories and books exist, more thoughts about the poems in Der Querschnitt, information about translations of his books and stories, mention of an unpublished story on the Greco-Turkish War entitled "Death of the Standard Oil Man"; contains a drawing by Hemingway of his face with a cut from a recent accident.

Billings, Montana. Hemingway will return "Little Review" and "Three Stories."

Billings, Montana. Written from St. Vincent's Hospital, after a hunting accident. Hemingway tells Cohn that he is returning some books and will be returning to Piggott, Arkansas, for Christmas.

[Piggott, Arkansas]. Hemingway explains his inscription on the enclosed manuscript and notes "...a bibliography may be of interest to you because you love books but I do not love them at all." He also comments on the healing of his arm. The enclosed sheet of manuscript is entitled "Death of the Standard Oil Man" and bears a typed note to Cohn: "You may have this for your book if you want it but truly, very truly, I think it is all balls to publish bibliographies of living writers. E.H."

Key West, Florida. Hemingway asks about the receipt of the page of manuscript he sent and about books sent from Piggott. Included here is the autograph envelope used by Hemingway to send one package of books.

Key West, Florida. Enclosing pamphlet and letter from Edward Titus. Also mentions that he is writing well and notes the fight between Cohn and Max Perkins over the manuscript of the unpublished chapters of The Sun Also Rises. Also includes two copies of the letter from Edward Titus concerning Kiki. (These letters were originally laid in a copy of Kiki: Spec PS 3515 .E37 I67 1929).

[Kansas City, Missouri]. Hemingway's comments on his newborn son, Gregory. He also discusses books that he wants to write including a French translation of Kiki for Dr. Guffey.

[Key West, Florida]. Contains a thank you for the books and gift of silver for his son sent by Cohn, comments on a translation of Kiki he has done for Dr. Guffy, and why his correspondence has "gone to hell." He also notes that his writing is the best in years, offers some thoughts on the "Milwaukee thing," and thanks Cohn for returning the typescript of the unpublished initial chapters to The Sun Also Rises.

Cooke City, Montana. Hemingway offers to look through his manuscripts in Key West for something for Cohn to publish in his "booklets."

Key West, Florida. Hemingway notes that he is returning the enclosed galleys and a Ts. copy but keeping the manuscript. Hemingway comments on the number to be printed, about the title, about having a disclaimer for names to avoid libel suits and that the copyright is to be in his name. The enclosed galley proof of "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" has autograph corrections, additions and the inscription: "ok, EH" (dated March 3, 1933). Galley Proof shelved separately in SPEC MSS oversize galleys.

Key West, Florida. "Use longer form of disclaimer ok to print 300 Hemingway."

These sheets of Ts. questions from Cohn concerning bibliographical information about Hemingway's publications bear autograph and typescript responses by Hemingway. They contain significant information about some of Hemingway's stories.

Mailing receipts signed by Hemingway.

Two checks from Louis Henry Cohn for books and one check from Liveright Publishing Co. for royalties on In Our Time. Each check is signed by Hemingway.

An introductory letter from Cohn to Hemingway, stating that he is doing a definitive bibliography of Hemingway's works for Random House. He states his interest in and qualification for doing this compilation. He asks Hemingway if he would consider writing an introduction to the volume and signing copies of it.

Cohn offers a brief description of the intended bibliography, comments on A Farewell to Arms, notes that separate slips with bibliographical questions are enclosed (cf. I.1), and remarks on "Up in Michigan."

Contains questions concerning the poems which Hemingway wrote which were published in Der Querschnitt.

New York. Contains comments on Hemingway's birthday, his wish to buy a copy of Kiki's Memoirs and transmits Random House's request for Hemingway to sign book sheets.

New York. Cohn discusses his plans to marry, to open a book shop (House of Books), and to make a gift of his Hemingway collection to his future wife, Marguerite, so that it will never be sold. He notes Hemingway's gifts to needy friends of his manuscripts and quotes from John Galsworthy about A Farewell to Arms. Cohn is enclosing galleys of "Four Poems" and asks about the copyright. This letter is incomplete.

New York. Cohn thanks Hemingway for the introduction to Kiki which he received. He then discusses the unpublished chapters of The Sun Also Rises manuscript which he is returning to Hemingway. Also included are comments on Death in the Afternoon and on the poem of Hemingway's appearing in Faulkner's Salamagundi.

[New York]. Includes questions to Hemingway about Navire D'Argent and Men Without Women.

Dallas, Texas. This response to a letter from Cohn gives Cohn information about Hemingway's work for the Kansas City Star newspaper and about Caper's correspondence with Hemingway during and after World War I.

Berlin. [German]. Offers issues of Der Querschnitt.

Berlin. [German]. Concerning the purchase of copies of Der Querschnitt.

Berlin. [German]. Concerning the issues of Der Querschnitt available.

New York. Cohn wishes to buy more issues of Der Querschnitt.

New York. Requests bibliographical information about Hemingway's works published in Navire d'Argent and Commerce and wishes to purchase issues containing Hemingway's works.

New York. A request to purchase an issue of La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, copies of Cinquante Mille Dollars and other French translations of Hemingway's works.

[New York]. Cohn encloses payment for copies of Cinquante Mille Dollars and wishes to purchase more copies.

New York. Requests bibliographical information on German edition of A Farewell to Arms.

[New York]. Cohn wishes to purchase the first editions published by Rowohlt of Fiesta and Manner.

Oslo, Norway. Gives Cohn bibliographical information about two Hemingway books translated into Norwegian; The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.

New York. Notes that the wrong issues of Der Querschnitt have been sent to him.

Berlin. Invoice for issues of Der Querschnitt.

Berlin. [German]. Writes concerning Cohn's recent payments for copies of Der Querschnitt.

Berlin. [German]. Discusses copies of Hemingway's books translated into German.

Paris. [French]. Offers bibliographical information about French translations of Hemingway books, including Cinquante Mille Dollars.

Berlin. [German]. Billing Cohn for purchases.

New York. Julian Messner to Cohn about bibliographic information on Liveright's printing of In Our Time. Enclosed are two copies of the brochure (16 pp.) which listed In Our Time. These items were originally laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 I5 1925 c.2.

Chicago. Gingrich is sending Cohn some books and additions to the list of Hemingway materials in Esquire.

Chicago. Adds "The Heat & the Cold" to the list of Hemingway materials in Esquire.

Chicago. Sending list of Hemingway materials used by Esquire from the KEN files.

Consists of page three of a review of Cohn's Hemingway bibliography.

Notifies Cohn of a publication by Bretano, called American Big Game Fishing which includes a story on marlin fishing by Hemingway.

Schruns, Austria. Notes that he has received a cable from Liveright accepting in our time and asks Fleischman to hold his manuscript in Paris until he returns.

Schruns, Austria. Hemingway is accepting Liveright's offer to publish the short stories ( in our time).

Schruns, Austria. "Delighted accept=Hemingway."

[New York]. Contract to publish Hemingway's short stories and an option on the next three Hemingway books (one to be a novel).

[New York]. Carbon copy of the contract.

[New York]. Letter which accompanied the contract, explains that one story must be cut because of censorship.

Final contract signed by Liveright and Hemingway with a sentence added at the end of the second paragraph reading: "Royalties in Canada shall be one-half of the above."

Paris. Encloses signed contract (I.4) and a new story to replace the censored one. Hemingway writes about censorship, book selling and requests his stories not be changed or cut.

Hemingway informed Liveright (May 11) that he has not received $200 payment for his stories. Liveright responds (May 20) the check has been sent and "this letter will be an official notice on our part that we understand we have no rights to your book in any foreign language."

[Paris]. Requests permission to reprint "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" and "Cross Country Snow," both of which appeared in Transatlantic Review.

Paris. Returns the corrected galleys, discusses short stories, has eliminated the obscene image in "Mr. & Mrs. Elliot" story; he doesn't wish his first book suppressed because of a few lines and comments that in reading the proofs he feels "it is even a better book than I remember."

New York. Have received galley proofs and will send page proofs soon and will ask Sinclair Lewis to write a blurb for the jacket.

[New York].

No place. Grants permission to reprint the Hemingway short stories as requested with the provision that they wait until two months after the Liveright publication of Hemingway's book.

No place. Enclosing letter to Beede (previous item) and does not like the anthology idea.

[New York]. The first letter (June 19) is from Beede to Liveright stating they will publish only one Hemingway story ("The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife") because they did not wish to wait until two months after Liveright's publication of In Our Time. The second letter (June 29) is Liveright's response to go ahead and publish it.

[Paris]. Thinks that the anthology may help his book and does not want trouble with Ford.

Has written to Beede giving permission and does not think In Our Time will be censored.

Paris. Sending manuscript, The Torrents of Spring. F. Scott Fitzgerald likes it. This is not the novel; that ( The Sun Also Rises) is being rewritten. Comments that "Torrents" is a satire and wishes it illustrated by Ralph Barton. Also comments that it may offend Sherwood [Anderson], would like a $500 advance and stresses need for more publicity than was given In Our Time.

"Rejecting Torrents of Spring Patiently Awaiting the Sun Also Rises Writing Fully Liveright".

Explains is rejecting Torrents of Spring because it is a vicious caricature of Sherwood Anderson, it is too cerebral, and not a true satire. Expresses desire to have The Sun Also Rises and is angered by Hemingway's criticism of the advertising done for In Our Time. He encloses a copy of his letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (next item).

Explains rejection of Hemingway's Torrents of Spring; thinks Doran might do better with it; expects to continue with contract with Hemingway and likes The Great Gatsby.

[Paris]. Recommends Hemingway's Torrents of Spring as "best comic book ever written by an American" and as a satire of literary pretensions. He hopes Liveright doesn't like it so Scribner's can have it.

Schruns, Austria. Discusses the rejection of Torrents of Spring; states that if Boni & Liveright rejects the second book they lose their option to publish the third book and considers himself free to give Torrents of Spring and future books to other publishers. Includes a penciled note on the recto stating that Hemingway did come in [to New York] and proved that indeed a rejection of Torrents forfeits their option for future books. Letter also bears a note in shorthand.

Transcription of penciled note on Hemingway letter (previous item). Hemingway proved contract specifies loss of option on the third book if reject Torrents of Spring and that Torrents was a good and honest deliverage on the second book. Hemingway offered to take Torrents from other publisher if we would reconsider but "our decision on Torrents of Spring is irrevocable."

[Havana]. Hemingway notes that he will be sailing from Havana for Boulogne via Spain on April 5 and be in Paris by April 22. He speaks of getting the proofs for correction and does not want omissions in his text.

[Key West, Florida]. Autograph note on verso of envelope: "somebody told me they paid $160 for a Paris In Our Time--What do you sell it for? Maybe I better buy one before it's too late--." Included with this envelope are: a note to Dr. Guffey from an unidentified author, a sales slip and marked catalogue of Ritter-Hopson Galleries for a Hemingway item, and a bibliographic card. These items were originally laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 I5.

Key West, Florida. "=ok with me regards hemingway=".

Key West, Florida. "Couldnt receive nicer wire deeply regret causing you both trouble but double fai banner extremely grave business on book by supporter Spanish Republic best regards= Hemingway." See also F9 for correspondence between Cohn and The Savage Press concerning this book.

[Kansas City, Missouri]. Asks for an inscribed presentation copy of the Hemingway bibliography, refers to self as a "bibliomaniac" and says Hemingway is in great form for writing now.

Kansas City, Missouri. "Wonderful nine pound boy arrived safely seven forty everybody happy= Dr Don Carlos Guffey."

[Kansas City, Missouri]. Thanks for Hemingway item and wishes to have two copies of "Twenty Best Stories."

San Antonio, Texas. Going to Mexico.

Paris. Part of original wrapping used to send a book to Guffey.

[Piggott, Arkansas]. (Addressed to Mrs. Ernest Hemingway.) This one sheet consists of two autograph letters. The recto is from Luis [Quintanailla] to Hemingway in Spanish. The verso is a note from Hemingway to Dr. Guffey explaining the Quintanailla letter. Says it accompanied original material of Tauromachia of Goya given to Hemingway by the Spanish government and comments "all I got out of the war (except 2 years of invaluable experience)."

[Key West, Florida]. Concerns a friend's pregnancy and notes that she and Ernest are just back from hunting in Africa.

[Key West, Florida]. Thanks him for his help to her and to Mrs. Dos Passos and another woman. Notes that Ernest is on a fishing trip and that his next book will appear in Scribner's serially in May.

[Piggott, Arkansas]. A thank-you and an invitation to visit the Hemingways in Key West.

"Merry Christmas from Pauline and Ernest Hemingway."

[Key West, Florida]. Thanking him for birth certificates.

Key West, Florida. Asks for length of article he wants, encloses article of 2500 words and notes "contrary to your estimable opinion `A Clean Well Lighted Place' is a damned fine title and `Give Us a Night Light' is lousy."

Key West, Florida. "Pictures mailed Monday Marlin off Moro ok but objected second deck your heading in letter mailed air mail yesterday which returned corrected typescript= Hemingway."

Paris. Notes various editions of Hemingway titles that he is bringing to Cohn: Lettres de Grognards, A Portrait and a Poem, Three Stories and Ten Poems, and In Our Time.

Paris. Collecting items for the bibliography, he has in our time and Three Stories but he does not want to sell his copies.

Sending August 14th letter (cf. previous item).

[Paris]. Sending books to Cohn, can not locate out of print material and does not wish to sell his copies. The Exile issue by Ezra Pound is available in New York.

New Haven, Connecticut. Notes uncorrected errors in a Hemingway publication. This letter was originally laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 A7 c.2.

Rome. Writes about his book, Two Christmas Tales, which included writing by Hemingway. This letter was originally laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 T86 1959, Two Christmas Tales.

Wishes to pay for any copy of Two Christmas Tales. Also laid in the copy of Two Christmas Tales.

Berkeley, California. Sending copy of Two Christmas Tales. Also laid in the copy of Two Christmas Tales.

Berkeley, California. Writes concerning Transatlantic and Ford; also mentions the suppressed chapters to The Sun Also Rises which were once in Cohn's collection.

Ann Arbor, Michigan. Discusses reprint of Louis Cohn's A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway. This photocopy was sent to Mrs. Cohn.

New York. Requests permission to reprint Cohn's Hemingway bibliography. This photocopy was sent to Mrs. Cohn.

Princeton, New Jersey. Returning the enclosed photocopies of Hemingway's letters and he has supplied year-dates. Notes that the suppressed chapters of The Sun Also Rises "disappeared this summer in Ketchum." Enclosed with this letter are a typescript (carbon) list of letters and the photocopies of those letters (19 items/42 pp.).

[New York]. Clipping of an article entitled "At Mary Hemingway's, Mementos of a Great Writer" by Fanny Butcher.

Philadelphia. Asks permission to reprint 50 copies of A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway.

[New York]. She cannot consider request for reprints because Quality Books is unknown to her.

Working on bibliography of Hemingway, seeking information on Four Poems and asks other bibliographical questions. She encloses a typed letter (carbon) on which to answer questions. Autograph note by Mrs. Cohn on the bottom.

Information concerning the withdrawal of The Resistentialists. She encloses a copy of a typed letter signed from Harper & Row (1967: April 13). These items were originally laid in a copy of The Resistentialists: Spec CT 120 .S8 1962.

Writes concerning the withdrawal of The Resistentialists and its possible reissue. Originally laid in: Spec CT 120 .S8 1962.

Greenwich Village, New York. A review of Audre Hanneman's Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography taken from The Villager.

Westport, Connecticut. Wishes to sell his Hemingway collection.

Is interested in his Hemingway collection, would like a list and indicates she too has a private Hemingway collection.

Westport, Connecticut. Enclosing list of items in his Hemingway collection, not urgent but treat confidentially. Enclosed here is an eight page typescript. of the inventory.

Talks about confidentiality, the need to advertise if wishes to sell and also having his collection appraised by a disinterested party, possibly by Robert Metzdorf.

Westport, Connecticut. Talks about treating the sale as a private deal versus public information and had material appraised by Lew Feldman of El Dieff Books who indicated the potential value to be between $75,000 and $80,000.

New York. A receipt from the House of Books stating: "received from Mr. A. E. Hotchner Hemingway material...".

Beverly Hills, California. Has to postpone their meeting and did not collect the photographs for the University of Virginia.

Paris. House where Hemingway lived in Paris which contains the room described in A Moveable Feast.

Ketchum, Idaho. Photograph by Olle Tannebo of Hemingway's grave.

Detroit, Michigan. Thanks her for the "In Their Time" keepsake and is sorry he missed the exhibit.

Concerning the Thomas McNamara forgeries. Laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 |58416 1978b.

New York. Originally laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b, Anthony Burgess's Ernest Hemingway and His World.

Enclosed is a draft of the letter to Burgess (cf. previous item). Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

Charlottesville, Va. Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

New York. Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

Monaco. Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

London. Encloses a typescript. (photocopy) of 1 p. Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

London. Encloses 2 copies of an invoice (2 pp.). Also laid in: Spec PS 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

London. Also laid in: Spec 3515 .E37 Z58416 1978b.

Princeton, New Jersey. He is working on an edition of Hemingway's selected letters (with Mrs. Hemingway's permission) for the benefit of the Hemingway Foundation. Thanks her for allowing two Hemingway letters to Horace Liveright to be included, a credit will appear in the acknowledgements.

New York. Wants to buy Collected Hemingway as well as Tortilla Flat and Manhattan Transfer. Also asks about locating a copy of To Have and To Have Not. Pleased with his copy of Green Hills [of Africa].

Two copies of a note reading: "Is there any news from Hemingway, yet?"

New York. Explains the cost of the particular copies of Three Stories and Ten Poems.

A note on the publication dates of Guns and Castenents, The First 48 and The Fifth Column.

Paris. "Herbert Mathews is the straightest the ablest and the bravest war correspondent writing today stop he has seen the truth where it was very dangerous to see and in this book he brings that rarest commodity to you stop in a world where faking now is far more successful than the truth he stands like a gaunt lighthouse of honesty stop and when the fakers are all dead they will read Mathews in the schools to find out what really happened stop I hope his office will keep some uncut copies of his dispatches in case he dies= Ernest Hemingway."

Habana, Cuba. Apologizes for not sending any stories and can't allow him to serialize the "bull book," will look for a story among his material at Key West. Also talks of fishing, finishing the correction of proofs and going to Wyoming.

Cooke City, Montana. Sorry about not sending stories, what he has been written is unprintable, is working on bullfighting book since February and nearly finished, "sooner or later I'll have some swell stories for you." "You have the best writer of short stories in the racket anyway in Somerset Maugham. By the time he starts to slip on you I'll just be getting in my prime."

Cooke City, Montana. Is sending a good story, actually 3 stories in one, with a dialogue form. Asks him to print the story without changes or deletions or if it's unsuitable to send it back.

Key West, Florida. Has been sick and has left Piggott, Arkansas for Key West.

Key West, Florida. Enclosing story, print without changes. He knows it is short..."I don't sell them by the yard or the word because I will cut out a thousand words to make one word important."

Key West, Florida. Thanks for gifts and books, talks to him about reviewers and writing and says "Don't pay any attention to any of it and write is Papa's advice."

Finca Vigia, Cuba. [Spanish].

Finca Vigia, Cuba. [Spanish].

Malaga. [Spanish].

"On Safari." [Spanish].

Finca Vigia, Cuba. [Spanish].

Original autograph text by Ernest Hemingway for a Cohn bookplate: "From the works (Give him the works) of Ernest Hemingway in the Library of Louis Henry Cohn." Includes pencil notes on sizes.

Same inscription but smaller.

A photocopy of the smaller version of the text from the bookplate.

Actual bookplate created from the inscription.

With note on verso: "Ernest Hemingway on board 'Normandie.'"

(On the verso is pasted a copy of a press release dated 1/24/54 by the United Press stating: "Hemingway Thought Dead in Plane Crash Uganda, East Africa . . .")

With autograph note by Hemingway on verso: "Rainbow trout"

With autograph note by Hemingway on the verso: "My big buck"

With autograph note by Hemingway on the verso: "The big bear / for your information / that I wrote you about--Isn't that a pretty hide?"

With autograph note by Hemingway on verso: "Pauline with big buffalo I killed"

With autograph note on the verso by Hemingway: "Weight 468 (on custom house tested scales) Length 12 feet 8 ½ inches-Black Marlin - Jumped ten times - caught trolling - hooked in top of mouth. Landed one hour and 5 minutes- Record on rod and reel for Cuban waters Day before fought one 2 hours and 20 minutes Landed on hardy Hickory - Bamboo No. 5 rod - 9/0 reel - 36 thread line- you can use any of these pictures you want/"

Using information recorded by Hemingway on the verso of #24

All from Cohn's collection, photographed by American Studio, New York

By American Studio, New York

With note on verso: "Barrett - Hem. ephemera"

Ernest Hemingway, who has written the complete story of bullfighting in his new book, "Death in the Afternoon" (Scribners). (For release in the morning papers of September 23).

Left to right: Carol, Ursula, Hadley, Ernest Hemingway, Mrs. Hemingway, Leicester, and Dr. Hemingway, September 3, 1921

With caption: Ernest Hemingway in Florida - Loaned by Sylvia Beach