Hemingway/Lanham Correspondence 1944-1961

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Hemingway/Lanham Correspondence 1944-1961

Consists primarily of letters that American novelist Ernest Hemingway sent to his friend General C. T. Lanham during and after World War II, with related photographs.

0.4 linear feet; 1 box

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SNAC Resource ID: 6321269

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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...

Lanham, C. T. (Charles Trueman), 1902-1978.

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Charles Trueman Lanham (1902-1978) was born in Washington, D.C. He received his commission in the infantry from West Point in 1924, and later saw duty in the Panama Canal Zone from 1927 to 1930. He was an instructor at the Infantry School from 1932 to 1934, and served with the National Guard Bureau from 1935 to 1938. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1939, then at the training branch of the War Department in 1941 and 1942. He was head of visual aids at headquarters of Arm...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...