If I’m ever asked to choose a character from the past to have a dinner with, my answer is always going to be Papa Hemingway. Not just because I’d want to talk endlessly with him about his Paris years, but also because for me (and surely I’m not alone), Ernest Hemingway is simply the paradigm of what a man strives to be.
But enough about my date with Hem. I’ve come across an incredible archive of his personal photographs, papers and scrapbooks that I can’t believe took me so long to find…
The JFK Library’s Ernest Hemingway Collection is a treasure trove for fans of the writer including up close and personal (and rarely shared) photos, letters, receipts, book lists, fishing logs and other notebooks. Much of it has been digitized, but onsite research with permission from the archivists to see the collection is also possible. I went through as much as the digital archives as I could and picked out some highlights to get you started:
Grace Hall Hemingway created and annotated six scrapbooks to document her son Ernest’s first eighteen years of life, long before he became a Nobel Prize-winning author:
Rico says he still hopes to get to Havana and see Hemingway's house, Finca Vigia...
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