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ALS signed “Un abrazo, Papa,” three pages, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia (Cuba) letterhead, May 24, 1957. Handwritten letter to his friend Gianfranco Ivancich, in part: “Have started many letters to you but have always held them up waiting to hear from those two Princes Mondadori and Einaudi [the Italian publishers Arnoldo Mondadori and Giulio Einaudi]. Now Einaudi writes he paid Dr. Camerino 5 million lire (less taxes) May 20th. Sure he is Einaudi I have to ask: Did he really do this? / How much did he promise to pay? / How much does he owe? / Did he ever make a stock payment?
Thanks for paying…I feel badly you had to use some of farm money. Let me know so as to make a credit…I have called Mondadori May 10—. Nando letter gave no business details stop Einaudi did not mention collected editions stop impossible for me to give consent until Einaudi deposits money…he has owed and promised for so long stop must also know royalties proposed to be paid me all editions cheap and collected and see whether I agree with these royalties stop you can see impossibility allowing me Einaudi dispose of my property that he has not paid for and then me agreeing to accept reduced royalties on my property which he would sell to you stop First Einaudi must pay me what he owes stop then I must examine your terms which I have never received stop.
Sent this and he answered that he had written an exhaustive letter about terms etc. But it has never come and today is the 26th of May. So you please if you let me know exactly what Einaudi has paid since the first of the year. (I need to know that for income tax anyway) and what Einaudi has promised to pay and not paid.
Here we have rain, rain, rain just as we used to have drought. It has rained all but 3 days for 3 months. Sometimes day and night both. Very strange weather. We are now on the 3rd planting of the garden. I enjoy your letters about the country very much but each time I have started to write you on Sundays there has been some of this cursed Mondadori and Einaudi business that have been waiting an answer for. They want me to agree to something like a Pazzo without being given the details and I am afraid that they fear to give the details because they are crooked and so much to my disadvantage.
Denis, our friend in the game department in Kenya was supposed to come over here in June to fish. Now he doesn't arrive until July. That makes it impossible to go to Pamplona. I had hoped we all could go. Will have to figure out something else. Have not had a drink since March 5th except wine. It's lonely. Weight 209 – 210. Blood pressure good again. Mary is healthy but is fed up with the weather and not doing anything creative.
We both miss you very much. The pool is fine and the place green as a jungle. Politics uncertain but country very prosperous with 6 cents sugar. Skyscrapers everywhere now like in Caracas. Gregorio, René, Paco Garay, Sinsky all send their best. Your letters about the country and the people and the river make me very happy. Please forgive me for writing such poor letters. Much love to the family.”
Hemingway met Gianfranco Ivancich in 1949, at the bar of a hotel in Venice: they started a conversation about their first point in common: war wounds, which were still painful. In the process, Hemingway met Adriana, Gianfranco's sister, then aged 19, who would become his muse. She inspired Renata in Beyond the River and Under the Trees, for which she designed the cover for the Scribner edition.
Gianfranco made his first trip to Cuba in 1950. ‘Hemingway allowed him to live for three years in the Finca tower and offered him his paternal friendship’ (Jeffrey Meyers). Gianfranco was short, stocky, handsome, quiet, modest, and distant, and was hardly in unison with Hemingway's noisy companions, Meyers says. Between several trips to Venice, Gianfranco made another long stay at Finca Vigia, between 1954 and 1956. Hemingway saw in Gianfranco ‘a masculine version and a substitute for Adriana,’ but above all a confidant and discreet companion, whose absence weighs on him: ‘We miss you a lot, and it’s very sad to see someone leave who was always around, a bit like a brother. Now I have no more friends, no more drinking companions and no more brave banana pickers.’ In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in Hemingway's hand and by two export certificates from the French Ministry of Culture.
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