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ruined. The east side of Garda is still o.k.

FINCA VIGIA, SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA, CUBA

A ny place would seem good after the bloody bughouse and I hope you get out
quick and have the good luck to never meet your admirers. Even a son of a bitch
like me that never wanted them has them and there is nothing worse nor sadder
than a god-damn admirer. Friends are something else.

I'm very proud of how wonderfully you have worked and I hope you get

what you want on your terms. "aveing so many people fighting over the disposal
of the body once it is ambulatory again must not be any bloody joke.

My best love to Dorothy. I always felt much stronger about her than
she felt about me but that is a thing that happens all the time. It all evens
up. My black dog feels about me more or less the way I feel about Dorothy. But
then my dog is getting old but so is Dorothy and so am I, and so are you.
Only the aircraft are young and new each year. What's really old is Africa.
Africa and Wyoming. The Etruscans, that you showed me first, are just a
bunch of juvenile delinquents.

No matter what happened to us in Africa nor how I hurt more or less
bad most of the time it was all worth it many times over. I am working hard
now to get back.

Hope such a long letter hasn't bored you. Don't be rough
and single tracked and say friendship is all very well but why don't you do
something logical and positive to get me out of this Bedlam. I do, really,
but today I just wanted to write to you and talk and joke the way we
did in the old days.

tu am go

July 6th 1956

Illustrious y nunca bien llorado detenido :

Many Riveros here. Can't give you any gen on your lady visitor. Think it would be a sound idea for the Govt. to detain the majority of your visitors and free you.
Yes I had heard McAlmon had lated on us but no details. Had not seen him since 1934 when accompanied by the late Jerry Preston I went to the opening of a place Jimmy Charters was opening more or less across from the Rotonde where close to where the old Chez Vikings was. The late McAlmon had been using his mouth too much for his own good and I asked him out into the street and hit him with a very short left hook that sort of re-did his mouth and he sat down while the Hon. Preston and I went back into the opening which was being very sparsely attended. The Hon. Preston having had a good look at the Hon. McAlmon said, "I'd have that hand cauterized if I were you." The Hon. McAlmon told the police that I had hit him with brass knuckles. However we were gone and the Hon. McAlmon made little progress with that story. He had three particularly atrocious stories he was putting out about me, several about you, several about the late Joyce and I thought somebody ought to hit him on the body he issued these stories from. Now I wish I had hit him in the body a couple of times. But at the time, and I know how wrong this is, it was nice to feel his face go like a sack of marbles.

Cows here for milk. Make butter and cream cheese. M, cottage cheese rather. It takes milk for the cats. They also reproduce, the cows, just like the great Mantovan says. I trade or sell off the produce or butcher for vitello. eep the heifers. Cave one yearling bull calf last year to Rene the boy who runs the house and has worked here since he was eleven. Now twenty six four. Another to old Mundo who does the milking etc. This makes them incipient big cattle men. Have heard of Pelo Pardi.
I can't look at television except a few fights and baseball.

Yes they still do make money with cows in Tyrol and Dolomiti. But very hard life. Was up there north of Toblach (Dobbiaco to you patriots but they still can't speak Italian) One year Mary and I had the Villa Aprile near Cortina down along the meadow above the creek just above the place where Il Tintoretto was born. Quite a lot of girls very intense kraut patriots even there. So I would wear my Gut Mit Uns belt some days, just letting it be glimpsed, and occasionally my SS belt (we get good belts from the krauts every twenty years and they last until we fight them again) One girl says very proudly, "Wait till Herr Hemingway's ax falls."

Have forgotten kraut but it comes back again when drinking kirschwasser or wicker the high mountain distilled products. You being a scholar probably don't lose and regain languages the way us self taughts do. Spanish ruined Italian for me but when I have nothing else to read can read Italian as easily as English. But late at night or when I'm in a cafe with the characters the other languages that I could speak come back French I've never lost but think that is from the constant renewal through the wars. You would not think to read the writing of our military men in general that war teaches a great precision of speech. But did you ever read the memoirs of the Marechal de Saxe? Tell me really because if you happened to have missed them will send them to you. You have read Sun Tzu of course? I will send for them both. If you don't find them interesting will eat them. See the book: Robert Graves is popping off. J dealousy

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must be a great stimulant to criticism. Aldington jealous of T.E. Lawrence, Graves of everybody.

No gen on E.Olson It couldn't be Bobo Olson could
it; the friend of the canvas ?

Keep my copy of your grandson on the mulch heap unless it
is his own mulch heap and he is visibly crowing.

I had to abandon the use of those suffix letters on account
of when was working an Honorary Game Warden of Kenya and Acting
Game Ranger like my best pal the real Game Ranger who I was doing odd
jobs for while he was occupied with other duties in the Emergency
always addressed each other by cleft sticks On Her Majesty's
Service stationary as so and so G.C. This, to us, stood for
Gin Crazed but some British babu interpreted it as an
unjustified use of the George Cross a gadget neither of us possessed
nor had ever seen and had no great respect for. Occasionally when
I had performed some utterly intrepid feat such as driving a lion out
of the streets of Laitokitok or showing the flag by doing slow
rolls down the streets of Laitokitok preparatory to buzzing my
Wakamba fiancée's shamba to drive the elephants away from my
father in law's crops the other Gin Crazed permanent, not acting
ranger, would address me as xxxxx Gen. E.H. V.C.; G.C. etc.
But we decided we better stop joking before some jerk took umbrage.
Umbrage is one of the few places that I have never taken; the nearest
being our trip to Orbetello following the campaigns of the late
Sigismundo where we took or lost everything but Umbrage including
Piombino. Coming back from Africa on the Andrea Critti out of Genova via Livorno, Napoli, La Guira, Curacao etc. I gave a short
but stern lecture on that campaign to officers and other ranks
as we passed Elba. Haveing just read an excellent book on Etruscan
art am prepared to repeat the lecture now with cultural overtones
the next time we run along that stretch of coast. They always cross me
up by passing it in the dark.

No omertas hooked up with the gent you mentioned.

Have received several delegations of your
admirers recently ( this Finca which was once dedicated to what I hope
is prose or may eventually be regarded as such is now one of the
stations of the Pilgrimage ). I give them drinks and make
The Speech. Those of your admirers who do not drink I offer
un-pasteurized milk to hoping that Their Faith will protect them
from undulant fever. After all a pilgrim should go through
certain privations and provings and even when embarking at Le Grau de Roi
from Aigues Mortes a knight was required on the voyage to furnish his
own chamber pot. Have read the regulations.

Archie was here and in good form. Hope he was
the same with you.

To preserve a semblance of work in progress I
am trying to canalize your admirers into meeting me at the Club Nautico
where I have taught several bartenders the speech. Pound el mejor
Poeta de America del norte en un manicomio ? Esta no !

Si ustedes creien que nosotros los Cantineros de Cuba vamos al supportar
esta crimen del Coloso del Norte que vds. se vayan,

Pound para nosotros es Lincoln, es Shakespeare, es Jefferson,
es Washington, es Tom Collins.

Segundo Cantinero - Y no hay de acuerdar que Pound es
casado con una hija legítima de Shakespeare y vivan en Washington.

Tercero Cantinero - Pound es en contra de las empressas de
las Guaguas, odian al muerte a los garoteros, es enemigo declarado
de la Compañia Cubana de Electricidad, ha luchado contra El Trust
Telefonica,

Primer Cantinero - Pound acaba con Mussolini.

3 Gritos de varios Marineros - Pound acaban con el Fascismo.

Viva el Vorticismo y la Libertad.

Gritos: Que Viva Pound. Abajo los Manicomios.

El onorable Hemingstein: Pound. Pound. Pound.

He is beating on a large drum known as a bongo: "Companeros un dia Dante ma dicho," Yo infeliz ciudano de Firenze solamente existen bajo la sombra de esta gran Ezra. ' No es decir mentiras campagneros. Esta estuva la ultima palabra de Dante. Companeros, Hermanos, Hijos de la Mar y de la Tierra, ellos, estos sinistre individuous, tine nuestro gran lider, el companero de mis estudios de Tom Jefferson y Tom Collins en un lugar asceroso. Companeros a la Calle.

This is only a very mild meeting. Will give you a reading on one where enthusiasm is really engendered.

un abrazo

13 Sep 57

To the Admired author of the Torrents of Sprint.

E.Z. sal. m DAT.

IF you can turn yr/ satiric talents OR capacity for analysis on
the CHOINulist as such

I wd/ be grateful.

This son of a Gun (Merin, in Tempo 29 Ag/ in apparently benevolent
splurge

runs in THE godDAMNdest lot of sheer bunk, invented
by himself or the s.o.b. who let him past copy desk /

that I have seen fer some time/
apart from the s.o.g br aking promise NOT to print interview, but
to stick to facts accessible without

DIEKKH pezzo di colore.

that I said to Adolf whom I never met or saw save on cine/
at TOTALLY lying account of interview with Muss/ and the old
gag to offend yr/ self/ as from Jew Pork 1939. etc.

Wash slosh had one with Overholser a while back, saing Ov/ sd/ I got
separate room cause patients complained I wdn't wash.

a statement I find very difficult
to credit as communique from head of the Nations leading bughouse.

For one fact they make 7 falsities / whether this started with my
getting once a week a tub bath instead of shower in the hell hole
after I taken the kikietrist by singing him my immortal

Yittischer Charleston Bank /

who can say.

At any rate the remark Gun attributes to me re/ E.H. is a damned lie.

As formerly re/ McAlmon. What I SAID was that a lot of sprouts
had been able to make USE of McA/ cause he never wd/ tidy up his
writing

and they cd/ go on from it /

as after you got thru, they was thanar on their arse / with
their own incapacities.

or words to that effect.

Fotos in Tempo are contraband.

if some of the allegations re/ claims unknown to me, are so
they are interesti.

2/

the malice of the small / the impression ( a la Fordie )
how much is that they merely get a blurr and then like to wr.
fiction /

YU tell me, you have seen mo e of 'em in yr/ formative
and impressionable years , than I did.

I spose the " TV" interview with that louse Spivak : their way of
getting a story. "

Bloke in Esquire , seed seemd also to mean well, but includes
buncomb

some of it contradicted even in Brit/ Who's Who.

it is MESS / is it simple lack of any direction of mind toward
doing ANYthing save fill so much space on paper ?

Blighter seems to want me out / and then puts in half a dozen lines
certainly NOT conducive to sd/ result.

any how saluti and luvv to the ka!

BRUNNENBURG
TIRAOLO (MERANO)
ITALIA

30 Oct '58

the Vonn HEMM !

Having yester come on a remark of yrn/ perTinent to the Pasternik/ alzo some 30 or uncounted le'rs fromthe VON hemm to the Ez/

and CONSidering the state of the market. The late McAlpitt having reQUESTer permisn/ to sell a doggymint of the Ez to the Yalek for $10 bucks, etc.

and the VoNN hemm having desisted largely from ePistOlatry correspondence when the average yanko started sellin his HhandschriftS to dealers fromTel or not fromavid.

And Mr Reid or Read, anyhow Forrey having reQUESTed permission to print 30 EPizls to James Jayzus no enstored in Kernell Univ. ( peace to its founder ).

I dun't see why the von Hemm shdn't cash in on a collection of his owne letters/ rather than leavin' it to

AWGH phwats phosterity done fer ME ???

At any rate there is the start of a lively a llovely Kollection here present at at his disPosition.

Just got to the files / back to some torn pages from Quinn used fer notes on Eliz. Classicists.

BUT there iz a second item. Hem/ cd/ cert/ git as much fer a collection of his letters as from lambastin his mind to git a new nuvl/ past the date line( if enny ).

BUT alzo, in lookin at my files, I find considerable doggymentation/ one fromCapehart, several from Cutting etc. back to 1951, and

Why Ez. Broadcast.

with doggymints, even one unimportant frontickes, saying he wd/ support the stinkhole fer a third term.

Question does Look or any paying proposition/ want 'em.

Illustrazione woptalian gimme a cover and canto and paid amurkn rate, but probably has been told NOT to repeat purrformance.

I spose Regnery or Kevin Adair might take a book/ don't know as they have always been against going beyond vertain boundries.

Laughlin is doing what he can.

Harvard still stalled on proper edition of Confucius, with seal character and sound graph.

The sit( sic. omitting the acca)uation Va ¼. STOPPED dead / wont give 2 pages an issue to reviewing books I find interesting. I dunt mean having ME rev/ 'em or anyone I think fit, but to have even their own mudheads review 'em.

haven't yet found Uncle George's Tinkham's letters/ only some House velopes, and carbons of mine to him/ which however Indicate WHY I did not start to ventilate 20 years later.

also the "ensdorf" letter re/ causes of war/ whether someone has LIBerated em I dont yet know.

Farchie's 1 test prank is to have snuggested that I interjuice pore old and needy Sharmel Iris to woptaly by writin a preface. To at least hint / --

spend yr/ time readin in Ferior writers. 4 requests in the
fartnight to augment the glory of D.H. Lawrence, J. Jheezus ,
collboreate in the Lewis (W.) epistolary by a prof from
Amherst, I tink it wuz) name Rose. BAIA MEN ALLA , with
rought breating HR,da.)

The roofs are covered with dust , gradually extending the
portions of o my son in row's domicile so as to render
habitable in warm weather.
but hope to

No ice plant yet, but hope to
have it ready to receive you by sprung time, with Miss Mary
if you can stand the local vintage( no additives) which can be
downed tepid.
the burgomeister addressing me

downed tepid.
Fordie's dream of the burgomeister addressing me
is scheduled to concretize at six this p.m. approx/ or rather
it wuz the maire of Tarascon or Foix or somewhere.
have oodled at these

it wuz the maire of Tarascon or Foix or somewhere.
geeHeeZZ wdn't the Huffer have oodled at these
gothic, ( roman basic) settings. Like as Brancus' sd/ Ce sale
Quinn, pourquoi il allait mouRir.

at any rate many happy returns of
the day, whether you can be bothered to
return yr/ attention to
documentations, etc.

MAJ EZ

The item ref/d in opening pp/ is dated 1931,

there is alzo one from the late Wyndham containing some
liveliness/ and one from Maj. Eliot's sekkertary , considered
a masterpce by my staff.
enedictions.
YAZ

Couple of dazzle orficers I wd/ admire fer ya to meet. JFC Fuller
and 'edro del Valle. also the naval Crommelyn or howso he spellzit.

Sr Don Ernesto di Hemingnonlo.

that the mayor of Munich
companions

offers me 5 days swank with TWO

in hope that my larangytis will be by June, plus 1000

RM plus railway fare, surface.

sufficiently cured to premit declamation of the Capolavoro etc.
non premiato by the Pasternikians.

To you they

offer THREE days, with air transport hin und zuzuk

no mention of Miss Mary, but dare say she MAY have the eat
usually reserved Ehh for Roosevelt descendents's colly dwag

when veterans' wive are having difficult parturition.

mu op/ is that mr cummings is more likely performer, for the
moderate RM. milie.

One of the worst bores in Austria most Pithetically seeking
a mere word from you (at Wastein, where in contradiction you
are supposed to be, i.e.

contradic/ to cuban radio, to local
press.

Hope yr/ ambiguous political whatever hasn't got you shot by
the wrong side YET.

dev/mo

Possom claims he cant crack my last cipher, in re/ religion
of Faber's grandpaprent and in fact of Faber ibse.

ever yrs/ in a wavering would.

21 Jan 59

Dear Walker

Please express my appreciation to Dr Hohenemser.
The one thing I can definitely do is to send another note
to the phantom and ambiguous Hemingway, who has not paid
any attention to the previous communiques.

June 3. is O.K. as far as predictable, BUT I cannot make
it more definite simply because of health and voice. Everyone
here down with flu. Tried a week at Limone on Garda, but
hotel not germanically heated.

Can we say that F.P. hopes to
be in condition to come,
and by April ought to know whether
he is coming up in the spring, or going down under the daisies

yrs

Dear Hem.

The city fathers of München agree to my suggestion that you wd/ probably prefer TWO passages by air ONE way, than a single HIN und Zuruk.

The idea that you probably do not give a damn and have not responded to earlier suggestions does not readily penetrate the ultramontine regions.

yr astral presence reported variously in Idaho, Italy, AND the disrupted CuBA. may confuse 'em.

All I can do is to accede to their request to forward their message.

dev/mo etc.

Yes, everyone here down with flu / one should NOT venture into Boreal regions after maturity.

26 Maggio.

ALBERGO GRANDE ITALIA & LIDO

DIRETTAMENTE AL MARSE

RISTORANTE ALL'APERTO TUTTO L'ANNO

SPIAGGIA PROPRIA - GARAGE

de majo RAPALLO Quevedo.

TEL. CENTR. 54.92 - 50.30 - 50.14

" Murio el santo J(h)ob il venete seis

Dear hem

Thanks for getting something real onto cinema. House not packed, so apparently too good for 'em.

old porter at r elugo's
been in despair , simply can't GET any good ones. so cheer to
several sad hearts.

Problem : what wd/ it come to if the old man had grown trees ?
younger generation says : wouldn't make a film.

Note 4 Anschauungs. Hunting tribes, killers of bulls, butchers of lesser cattle, AND the agriculturalist.

( Cain villain in the
smear sheet. )

benedictions

26 Maggio

Dear Vanni

Please send a copy of Walter's Giono to E. Hemingway
Finca Vigía, San Francisco de Paula, CUBA.
I
might have thought of this sooner

Jaime Garcia Terres, says he will pay for all new E.P. published by
Vanni.

I don't know how much of the earlier stuff he has. Rates
review copies for large display in Eccelsior, big Mexican daily.
address Universidad Nacional de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

Laughlin has announced Thrones /шенner waiting for a copy, etc.

PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPY: ORIGINAL MATERIAL RESTRICTED

ande Italia

PALLO

5 Ag/ '59

r hem.

For gawd'zache stop payment on that memorable cheque.

I sent it, with definite inscription that it was NOT payable, to a german firm that preserves papyri etc. in a clear substance, to make it a paper weight.

And have not heard from 'em.

Bayerische Kunststoffverformung. Grobenzell. b/ Munchen, Eschenrie str. 11.

If they are clever enough to offer form, etc. they may be clever enough to efface my efforts to make the thing non negotiable.

If this dont convince you that I am nuttsz, I spose nothing will.

yrz.

Naturally I sent it registered / but the old world postal system is old.

2 what was actually said. If you would have made it up, i.e. created it then it would not go bad because it would be a little different. There would have been something different about it because it would have been a work of art instead of a remark made by some one. The trouble with working with things that actually happened is that the artist is constantly tempted to leave in the actuality just because it happened and it impressed him because it was true. To the reader all that is bad because he should have the whole thing all of one piece.

See Luxembourg sculptors with actual knives etc. inserted in the stone.

I've just hunted for and can't find the specimen page of the Cantos which had your statement of the plan and purpose of the whole show so there isn't any use for me to go on with this. I've thought the hell of a lot about that dialect business and I think that is the danger that can wreck the whole damned project of the cantos which Christ knows is a swell project.

So that ought to do for now today. You ought to be able to puncture all my arguments in detail because I have no felicity in presenting them. But think over my general proposition.

Irecognize the value of both McAlpin and Beasely. That would bring me to my only other major bone i.e. your hatred of These or Those United States. You give Beasely credit beyond her due simply because she shows up U.S.A. Why get excited about U.S.A.? It means nothing to me. Why in hell should it mean anything to any intelligent person? You are so indignant about it that I can't believe sways your judgement. I hate Benito. That doesn't prejudice me in favour of all the stupid bastards that hate Benito too. Beasely is a documenter. McAlpin, when he is at his best, is a documentor too. His interests are all those of a scientist. He just happened not to be born with a good enough brain to be a scientist. Village is a splendid document. So are a couple of the Distinguished Air stories. What Mc remebers is nearly always interesting. What he creates is just awful.

Why in hell should you get all excited about the States. You don't have to live there.

When you get excited about U.S.A. read Ecclesiastes. How long since you've read Ecc? I am not referring purely to the literary style of King James's translators. Don't let your just disgust with the so called Christian religion keep you from reading Ecclesiastes. The only preachers who ever use it as texts do so to show that it was all wrong and a great mistake to have been allowed to stay in the bible.

Anyway thanks for the letter. Will re-read it now while going downtown on the bus. It is a very good idea to read the prefaces. Thanks for the letter.

A mrs. something Yr. affect. Nephew

Hem sent around a chasseur with a letter from you and her card. we will ask her to tea. Anything else? Have me look after you. Das Ferne

Herr