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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

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Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Carbon DS, signed in ink, “Ernest Hemingway,” nine onionskin pages, 8.5 x 11, November 17, 1936. Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, “the Donor, being desirous of granting an irrevocable trust,” delivers 40 shares of “Second Preferred Stock of William R. Warner & Co., Inc. par value $100” per share to Hemingway as Trustee. In 1908, Pfeiffer Pharmaceuticals had merged with William R. Warner & Co. The “Trust Estate” is to be used for “the education, maintenance and support of John Hadley Hemingway, now residing at Chicago, Illinois, until such child attains the age of twenty-one (21) years…any part of the Net Income not so applied…thereafter to pay all of the Net Income to such child until he attains the age of thirty (30) years…Upon such child attaining the age of thirty (30) years, to convey, transfer, pay over and deliver the principal of the said Trust Estate, or the portion thereof, then remaining in the hands of the Trustee, to such child absolutely…” Hemingway has “the power from time to time, in his discretion, to sell, endorse and reinvest or otherwise dispose of, any or all securities and property acquired under orb in accordance with the provisions of this Deed of Trust…” Present also is “Schedule A” identifying the stock as “Certificate No. B-267.” Also present is another page being a November 17, 1936, carbon TLS “Gustavus A. Pfeiffer” in ink to Hemingway in Key West, concerning the stock, beginning, “You are hereby authorized and requested to hold and to continue to hold, as a part of the Trust Estate under the Agreement between myself and yourself, dated Nov. 17, 1936, establishing a Trust for the benefit of John Hadley Hemingway, the following property, as now invested, until further written notice from me, or until my death, if no further written notice to the contrary shall have been given to you by me…” On the back cover, Hemingway has handwritten in pencil: “Complete Copy Bumby’s Trust Fund, 2 copies–Stock Certificates for 40-40-23-Shares, 22.” Accompanied by a photocopy of the complete 14-page Deed of Trust. In very good to fine condition, with expected mild handling and document wear, small edge tears and creases, and Hemingway’s last name a bit light due to reduced ink flow. According to a November 18, 1936 article in The Miami News newspaper, ‘Papa’ was in the Sunshine State at this time en route to his Key West home to work on his novel To Have and Have Not after spending three months on a Montana ranch. John ‘Bumby’ Hemingway was one of three sons to survive the novelist, and had been captured by German forces during World War II and held as a POW. He later pursued a business career and retired in 1967 to become an educator. He was the father of actresses Margaux and Mariel Hemingway.
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