Toby and Betty Bruce collection of Ernest Hemingway, circa 1877-2008

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Toby and Betty Bruce collection of Ernest Hemingway, circa 1877-2008

circa 1877-2008

https://aspace.libraries.psu.edu/repositories/3/resources/11174?fbclid=IwAR2jBJ02gKOC9cwgz0WIYy3LWJFS5k-obi-obbuk_5CHAMUUz6XNlGkwXGA

A collection of materials related to writer Ernest Hemingway, including correspondence, ephemera, galleys, manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts. This collection also contains material relating to the Bruce family and their relationship to Ernest Hemingway, including correspondence between the Hemingways and the Bruces, photographs, and inventories of the collection materials. Highlights of this collection include drafts and galleys of Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway's childhood notebook containing perhaps his first work of short fiction, Hemingway's World War I Red Cross uniform, a satire of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and correspondence with Martha Gelhorn and Mary Hemingway.

18 Linear Feet (Housed in 2 Hollinger boxes, 10 Paige boxes, 1 6.5" CD box, 2 13.25" drop front boxes, 1 13.75" drop front box, and 1 37.25" clothing box)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11667163

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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

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Born in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children born to Grace Hall and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. Ernest developed a love of literature and music from his mother, a trained opera singer and music teacher after her marriage, and gained a keen interest in outdoor sports--hunting, fishing, woodscraft--from his father, a doctor and avid naturalist. Divided between the family's home in Oak Park, Illinois, and their summer cottage on Lake Waldoon in Michigan, Ernest's chil...

Bruce, Toby

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Otto "Toby" Bruce was a long-time friend, assistant, carpenter, handyman, and driver of Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida. At the request of Mary Hemingway, Toby acted as pallbearer at Ernest Hemingway's funeral. Toby and his wife Betty retained these materials, collected primarily from Sloppy Joe's Bar, with the permission of Mary Hemingway following Ernest Hemingway's death in 1961. Following Betty's death in 1994, their son Benjamin Curry "Dink" Bruce inherited the collection, and, along ...