Mary Welsh Hemingway papers 1892-1977

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Mary Welsh Hemingway papers 1892-1977

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The Mary Welsh Hemingway Papers document the life and career of the journalist Mary Welsh Hemingway, and include correspondence, writings, and personal papers. The correspondence includes letters to Mary and Ernest Hemingway from a variety of correspondents, both family and professional; copies of outgoing letters written by Ernest Hemingway; correspondence related to Mary Hemingway's involvement with the Overseas Press Club of America; and holiday cards and notes written to her mother, Adeline Welsh. The bulk of the writings is comprised of typescript drafts of Mary Hemingway's autobiography How it Was. Writings related to her father, Thomas J. Welsh, her travels, and other topics are also present. Personal and other papers include clippings related to Mary Hemingway's travels and public appearances, and to memorials for Ernest Hemingway; financial documents; photographs; and ephemera. They also contain papers of Mary Hemingway's father, Thomas J. Welsh, including a typescript autobiography, correspondence, and other family papers.

8.5 linear feet (10 boxes)

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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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...

Overseas Press Club of America.

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The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in New York City in the 1940s by a group of 42 foreign correspondents. From the description of Records, 1976-1991. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 27137284 ...

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...

Welsh, Thomas James, 1870-1955

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Welsh, Adeline Beehler, d. 1957

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