Letter from Ernest Hemingway's son Gregory following the death of his father on behalf of Roberto Herrera, Ernest's long-time secretary and friend.

by Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Gregory Hancock Hemingway ( 1931 – 2001); Roberto Herrera (died 1970)

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Bahia Honda, Cuba: July 10, [1961]. Als. 265 x 185mm., sheet size. Letter from Hemingway's son Gregory following the death of his father on July 2, 1961 asking "To Whom it May Concern" to help Roberto Herrera, Hemingway's friend and secretary in [settling the estate.]...Gregory Hancock Hemingway (November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001), also known as Gloria Hemingway in later life, was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer.... The tragic death in 2001 of Ernest Hemingway's son revealed him/her to have long been addicted to fetishistic transvestism. At some point Gregory had one breast implanted and later on underwent SRS. However, he only occasionally dressed as a woman in public, and was referred to by the Hemingway family as Gregory (rather than Gloria or Vanessa, names he sometimes used when dressed as a female). Even after SRS he usually appeared in public as a man, as in this photo with his wife Ida, in 1999. Such is often the case when a fetishistic man undergoes SRS but doesn't have any deep need to take on a female social role. For more about other cases of such transition failures after SRS... In the course of his first four marriages, Gregory Hemingway had eight children: Patrick, Edward, Sean, Brendan, Vanessa, Maria, John, and Lorian. One of his marriages, to Valerie Danby-Smith, Ernest Hemingway's secretary, lasted almost 20 years Gregory's fourth marriage, to Ida Mae Galliher, ended in divorce in 1995 after three years, though

• Publisher: Bahia Honda, Cuba: July 10, [1961]
• Binding: unknown

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