A Letter from Hemingway to Fitzgerald

January 27, 2010

Here’s an excerpt of a letter from Hemingway (Ernest) to Fitzgerald (F. Scott) that I dug up somewhere…

To me a heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors and one house would be fitted up with special copies of the Dial printed on soft tissue and kept in the toilets on every floor and in the other house we would use the American Mercury and the New Republic.

Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Check out my article about A Moveable Feast for more about Ol’ Ernest.

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