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Ernest Hemingway ALS

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Ernest Hemingway ALS
"WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED AFTER THE AUCTION ENDS BY THE AUCTIONEER ONCE ALL BIDS HAVE BEEN PROCESSED TO DETERMINE THE WINNER FOR EACH LOT."
Ernest Hemingway autograph letter signed along the margin of a typed letter signed by his wife Mary, dated 25 August 1954, on ''Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba'' stationery as Hemingway was recovering from two plane crashes while on safari. Hemingway twice-signs the letter to his friend Kit Figgis that reads, ''Dear Kit: Sorry to bother you with this but it seems bad for Mary to run any chance of losing her trophies she worked so hard for. With O.M. Rees as he is and Philip Percival laid up we turn to you…Hope everything is well with you the chiltern [sic] and old Larry. Will write you properly soon. I do so hope everything OK with my god-child and you. Love Papa / Excuse bad penmanship. Am scribbling this PS with the back of a Town and Country as a desk sitting in the old big chair. All parts getting in good shape. Mary fine and well. Our love to Ray and his Mary also. We plan to be back by this time next year. EH.'' With additional autograph note signed by Mary Hemingway who writes, ''Papa is very much better and improving - he was pretty beat up - M.'' In the typed letter signed, Mary Hemingway asks to Kit Figgis, who lives in Africa, to check on the taxidermal progress of several game that she killed, including a ''black-maned lion'', impala, lesser kudu, buffalo, wildebeest, kongoni, gerenuk, etc. Letter, measuring 8.5'' x 11'', has minor toning, else near fine.