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[HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961), association]. Original Telegram from Hemingway to Esquire Editor / Publisher Arnold Gingrich (1903-1976). Key

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[HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961), association]. Original Telegram from Hemingway to Esquire Editor / Publisher Arnold Gingrich (1903-1976). Key West, FL via Chicago, IL: Western Union, 1936 Mar 26. Telegram on Western Union paper with pasted telegram text. Approximately 6 ½ x 8”.

Condition

Toned, some general wear, creases. Very good.

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"OK to let Readers Digest reprint Blue Water Stop Gave fiction parade Parade permission reprint story but they havent paid Stop Wire latest deadline next piece Best Regards = Ernest." This letter refers to Hemingway's story, On the Blue Water: a Gulf Stream Letter, which first ran in Esquire Magazine in the April 1936 issue. This story was reprinted in the May 1936 issue of Reader's Digest.