ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba letterhead, November 27, 1958. Hemingway writes from home in Ketchum, Idaho to Mr. Palmer, ordering several books. In full, “Could you please send me by air parcel post Beloved Infidel - Sheilah Graham - and by regular post John O’Hara’s new novel and three more each of Green Hills of Africa and collected stories of EH. Thank you very much and best holiday greetings. I know how busy you must be.” Hemingway goes on to add a postscript, “Harry Braque has given me the word on the African stuff and it will be along. Have one book already and the Rowland Ward catalogue. Thank you very much. I am sorry to have been such a nuisance at such a busy time. EH.” In fine condition, with several small pencil check marks, small red spot to bottom edge and a date of November 30, 1958 (in pencil). A letter with interesting Hemingway-Fitzgerald association, as one of the books Hemingway orders is Sheila Graham’s Beloved Infidel. Deep in debt, F. Scott Fitzgerald had moved to Hollywood and taken a job writing film scripts as he struggled to complete a final novel. Sheila Graham, gossip columnist and aspiring novelist, became Fitzgerald's lover and inspiration as he tried to escape alcohol and focus on work, but he died of heart failure, with Graham at his side, before completing The Last Tycoon. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
