Ernest Hemingway letter to Peter Viertel [manuscript], [1954?] August 21.

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Ernest Hemingway letter to Peter Viertel [manuscript], [1954?] August 21.

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Hemingway discussess an upcomng fishing trip; writing progress; and the "comic aspects" of screen adaptations, particularly in reference to Gregory Peck in "The purple plain." He sends thanks for mocassins and mentions a postal strike and other interferences in his life including people "louseing up the time should be re-charging the batteries...." Mentions Hans F. Koenekamp, Don Page, George Brown who is coming down to get him in shape, and Bob Parrish.

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Koenenkamp, Hans F., 1891-1992.

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Brown, Georg Stanford

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