ALS, two onionskin pages, 8.5 x 11, March 13, 1959. Written from Ketchum, Idaho, a letter to James Starnes, a sixteen-year-old schoolboy who began a correspondence with Hemingway, in part: “Sure was glad to hear from you again. We are pulling out of here to drive to Key West to go home to Cuba and I wished to write you before we left. Once we start moving it is hard for me to write letters. Hope you’re doing good (that should be well) in school and everything goes good with you. We had a good fall and winter & worked hard on my book and had fine shooting too & still eating mallard ducks, pheasant, partridges out of the deep freeze. Also venison. It hasn’t been a hard winter here and the game has wintered well. There have been 15 head of elk only a couple of miles from this cabin up Trail Creek. Thanks for sending the paper. The editor sounds like the type of man I could get along with O. K. Jim if you don't hear from me don't think I have forgotten my friend. It is just that I will be traveling and working and I don't write letters the way I should. Best luck to you and your folks and my regards to Miss Simms. I can’t help her about the lazy children because that was what I was and the best part of school was vacation when we didn’t have to wear shoes. Take good care of yourself.” Hemingway adds his permanent address in Cuba below. In fine condition. Accompanied by a newspaper clipping relating to the Starnes–Hemingway correspondence.
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