Autograph Note, signed “Papa” , 11 April 1959, responding to student reader Frank Crowther’s inquiry about A Farewell to Arms, and alluding to the celebrated Paris Review interview
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10 lines in ink on the bottom of the letter to Hemingway, with the mailing envelope. 4to. Generally fine address on envelope struck through for forwarding . Item #374887 Nobel Laureate Ernest Heminway answers a young reader’s long query about the indeterminate sex of the unborn child in A Farewell to Arms, and P.S. concernign a phrase that appeared at the end of George Plimpton’s interview of Hemingway for the Paris Review.
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