Ernest Hemingway's Typewriter
photo: invaluable
Ernest Hemingway's Typewriter Used to Write "A Moveable Feast", Impeccable Provenance From His Biographer A. E. Hotchner
Hemingway's "Royal" typewriter HH Serial #HHP-4938968. Circa mid-1950's used by him to write "A Moveable Feast". Superb condition with the original typewriter ribbon. Provided to Hemingway in the fall of 1959 by his close friend, A.E. Hotchner, who had found Hemingway an apartment at 1 East 62nd Street, just off Fifth Avenue. Hotchner and Hemingway both furnished the apartment just after they were in Spain for "The Dangerous Summer". Hotchner lent Hemingway this "Royal" typewriter which he used for many months working on "A Moveable Feast", his tale of early days spent among writing giants the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. Hemingway returned the typewriter to Hotchner in 1960, and it has remained cherished in his friend's possession since that time. Provenance: Accompanied with the typewriter is a signed letter of authenticity by A.E. Hotchner who includes the above information in the body of his LOA dated "December 23, 2019, and which he signed and had notarized; and a Signed Letter of Authenticity by John Reznikoff who personally received this photo directly from Hotchner. Both letters are transcribed below and are shown as images within this lot.
photo: invaluable
In the spring of 1948, A.E. Hotchner as a 20-something journalist, was assigned by Cosmopolitan to get from Ernest Hemingway an article on ""The Future of Literature"". He never did manage to finagle the predictive think piece from Hemingway --it burgeoned into two substitute short stories and came out Across the River and Into the Trees, which Cosmo ran in three parts -- but ""Hotch"" got to know ""Papa"" and ""Papa"" came to respect ""Hotch."" They drank together. And how they talked! Hemingway trusted Hotchner and opened up to him in Cuba, New York, Paris, Venice, on the Riviera, in Madrid, Sun Valley, and finally at the Mayo Clinic.
