Hemingway legal files collection 1899-1971 1935-1960

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Hemingway legal files collection 1899-1971 1935-1960

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18572

The Hemingway legal files collection contains the records of Hemingway's lawyers, Maurice J. Speiser (1929-1948) and Alfred Rice (1947-1969). The papers include letters, contracts, and documents concerning foreign and domestic licensing of Hemingway's work for stage, ballet, radio, film, and television; litigation concerning the use of his writings and libel cases; and the management of Hemingway's estate (both property and literary) before and after his death. The collection contains letters and telegraphs written by Hemingway, some autographed, in which he discussed legal matters and occasionally provided updates on writing progress, travel, and other personal news.

3.15 linear feet; 8 boxes

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6312089

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Hemingway (Family : Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961)

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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...

Rice, Alfred, 1907-1989.

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American writer Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and Grace Hall. After high school, Hemingway worked briefly as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, before joining the Red Cross as an ambulance driver on the Italian war front during World War I. There, Hemingway suffered injuries to his legs and spent six months in a Red Cross hospital in Milan. Upon recovery, he returned the United States and was hired as a foreign co...

Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Charles Scribner, 1821-1871, was a partner in the publishing firm of Baker & Scribner, 1846-1871, and carried on alone after Baker's death in 1850. He formed Scribner & Welford in 1857. Charles Scribner's Sons was established in 1870, the same year SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY began. His son Charles, 1854-1930, became president in 1875. He began SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE in 1887. It ceased publication in 1930. His son Charles, 1890-1952, became president in 1932. From the description of Char...

Hemingway, Mary Welsh (1908- ).

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Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908-1986), journalist and author, was the wife of Ernest Hemingway. She grew up in and around Bemidji, Minnesota, where she attended public schools. Her fondest childhood memories were of canoe trips with her father in the lake country. "Up to the late teens of our century we lived in a world that was then remote and has now vanished at the insistence of lumbermen, plowmen, and road-builders," she wrote in her autobiography, How It Was (1976). Her father''s business declin...

Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), 1880-

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