The collection contains manuscripts of essays, poems, and short stories including "The dangerous summer"; a clean carbon of "Green hills of Africa" typed by Jane Armstrong; and galley proofs of "The old man and the sea," "A farewell to arms, " and "Death in the afternoon." The collection also contains the manuscript of a dramatization of "The snows of Kilimanjaro"; the manuscript of Peter Viertel's screenplay of "The sun also rises" with Hemingway's extensive autograph corrections, together with the mimeographed first draft and final script; the transcript of an interview with students in Hailey, Idaho; and page proofs of the original version of "Papa Hemingway." In letters to Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead, Hemingway chiefly discusses publication of "The undefeated" including printing problems with "This quarter." He also discusses writing "The sun also rises," the fall of Herriot's government, a Tyrolean walking tour, and mentions Sylvia Beach, H.L. Mencken, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and the current French and Italian governments. Correspondence with Horace Liveright discusses the publication of "In our time," including the replacement of a censorable story, sales potential and possibility of favorable reviews. Letters also discuss "The torrents of spring" and its satirization of Sherwood Anderson, and mention James Joyce's "Finnegan's wake, " an appearance in an anthology, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louis Bromfield, and Ralph Barton. Correspondence between Ralph Ingersoll and Joseph Losey discusses a production of "The fifth column." Letters to A.E. Hotchner discuss work for Cosmopolitan magazine, Italy after World War II, fishing, hunting, bull-fighting and travels in Spain, "Across the river and into the trees," "Old man and the sea," Hotchner's adaptations of Hemingway's work for the theater, and the writing of and events and people in "The dangerous summer" including matadors Antonio Ordóñez and Luis Miguel Dominguín. There are comments on Ingrid Bergman, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Flaherty, Joe Di Maggio and baseball, Ava Gardner, John O'Hara, Ted Patrick, Eric Sevareid, Gary Cooper, Valerie Danby-Smith, Alfred Rice, cock-fighting, sailing, the 1948 election, Korean War, Cuban revolution, Peter Buckley's "Bullfight," business arrangements, health and sobriety, and family. Several letters from Mary Hemingway to Hotchner discuss Hemingway's health and writing as well as her own writing. Individual letters mention hunting in Idaho, Leonard Bernstein, the Cuban revolution, bull fighting and "Death in the Afternoon." Correspondence with Jane and Richard Armstrong concerns the typing of "Green hills of Africa." The letters also mention John and Katy Dos Passos, Max Perkins, requested photographs of Carlos Gutiérrez rigging baits, work on Cuba, H.L. Woodward, and response of old timers in Kenya to "Green Hills." Additional letters discuss James Joyce, life in Paris, discrepancies between views of critics and readers, bullfighters, being struck by lightning, John Hemingway's World War II service, and editorial decisions about "Farewell to Arms." He also responds to collectors, and lists the best three books of 1932. People mentioned include Sidney Franklin, Samuel Goldwyn, and Archibald MacLeish.
