[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, 1934 Nov 26 . Telegram on Western Union paper with pasted telegram text. Approximately 6 ½ x 8”.
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Toned, some general wear, creases. Very good.
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"Thanks okay about money swell to see you and Scott caught good sailfish three big grouper three barracuda three bonito out half day yesterday with Dos Regards = Ernest." In this delightful telegram, Hemingway describes a fishing trip with his friend, John Dos Passos (1896-1970). It is unclear who "Scott" is at the beginning of the telegram, but there is a possibility that he is referring to his sometime friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). Fitzgerald and Gingrich became close in 1934, when Gingrich became Fitzgerald's only source of income as Esquire Magazine starting publishing his stories in 1934 (1934 was also the year that Fitzgerald's final novel, Tender Is the Night, was published, but it sold poorly). Esquire published nearly all of Fitzgerald's important later stories.