[HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961), association]. Original Two-Page Telegram from Esquire Editor / Publisher Arnold Gingrich (1903-1976) to Hemingway About To Have and Have Not. [New York, NY via Chicago, IL], Western Union, May 19, 1937. Telegram on Western Union paper with typed text with a few manuscript corrections (this may be a typed draft of this telegram before it was sent to Hemingway at the Hotel Barclay in New York). Each page approximately 6 ½ x 7”. Toned. Fine. In this telegram, Gingrich blasts the composition of To Have and Have Not, which had apparently been submitted to Esquire for a possible magazine appearance.

"Sleeping over it my considered opinion is that Harry Morgan and the Vets are as oil to water when forced between same covers with generic female study and that you should follow the instinct that tells you to disassemble the job and waste no juice on attempted revision that might better be employed on a new one that would start from scratch and be a smash Stop While you are due for a novel it should be a better one than Farewell and this on wouldnt be while chances are good that new one through impact of new experiences will be Stop Probably should offer Harry Morgan to Burton for Cosmo first on chance bigger dough Stop As for other matter / have not got wind back yet nor begun recover shock surprise Stop my first experience method modern combat which dispenses with formality of declaring war Stop Will write you fully frankly when have reacquired modicum of equilibrium meanwhile feels pretty funny being court martialed [sic] for treason by both apposing [sic] generals simultaneously Arnold:"