Miscellaneous collection of four items, 1909, 1919, and undated. The first item is "Sports-man hash" edited by E. M. H. (Ernest) and T. H. (Ted H.), Oct. 10, 1909, a 4 pp. booklet with a story entitled "An adventure with a porqupine[sic]" about Ernest, Marcie, and Grace H. Hemingway, and some friends encountering a porcupine with picking blackberries. Ernest left to get a gun and shot the porcupine. The cover is hand drawn, p. 2 is the typed text, p. 3 is a photograph of Ernest holding a gun and a dead squirrel, with three other children on the beach. The back cover (p.4) is also hand decorated. The photograph is blue (a cyanotype) and entitled in handwriting "A good result". The booklet was made on stationery of Dr. Clarence E. Hemingway. The second item is a letter (4 pp. and the envelope) from Ernie to "Dear Dad", Dr. Clarence E. Hemingway, written and mailed from Boyne City (Mich.) on June 9 and 10, 1919 respectively, in which Ernie writes of having been told of Grace Hemingway's plans to build a separate cabin and that she engaged Warren [Sumner] to build it. Ernie refers to the cabin plan as "this selfish piece of damn foolishness". He also mentions the state of the alfalfa and apple trees, and fishing.The third item is a postcard from Ernie addressed to "Dear Pop" [Dr. Clarence E. Hemingway] dated Aug. 27, 1919, mailed from Seney (Mich.) in which Ernie brags about catching 26 brook trout in Seney and notes that he is returning to Horton's Bay (Mich.). Ernie also mentions his friends, Jack Pentecost and Al Walker. [This fishing trip, the last Ernie enjoyed with his friends in the summer of 1919, is discussed in Carlos Baker's definitive book, Ernest Hemingway: A life story on pp. 63-64. Ernie later wrote his book, Big two-hearted river, in which Nick Adams fishes while recovering from his war wounds, based on his experiences as a wounded veteran during this trip.] Completing the collection is a v. with 5 pp. of a handwritten, untitled, unfinished story by Ernest about a cook in camp 21 of the fictional Garron and Junerwelle's lumber company. The remaining 127 pp. of the v. are blank. Physically, the collection is in excellent condition.
