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Vintage semi-glossy 3 x 5 deckle-edge candid photo of Ernest Hemingway on a ship, evidently the Italian ship Francesco Morosini, signed in blue ballpoint and fountain pen, "To my friend, Best always, Ernesto Hemingway." Annotated on the reverse in another hand: "Arrivo a Habana, 29-6-54." In fine condition, with light silvering to the darker areas of the image, and Hemingway switching pens mid-autograph due to poor ballpoint ink flow.
In the summer of 1954, Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveled aboard the Italian ship Francesco Morosini from Europe to Cuba. Mary made a record of the journey in her 1970 memoir How It Was, fondly recalling their stop in Madeira: 'At Funchal where the ship had stopped forty times in its voyages and he [the captain] had never gone ashore, Ruggiero this time decided to look at the town. He took me in a car to a café where we sipped sweet Madeira wine, then to the chapel on the mountaintop where Carlos I, last Emperor of Austria, is buried, his life much less violent comic-opera than those of his granddads, his uncles, and his cousins and his aunts. What I had not noticed during earlier visits were the porcelain plaques of Saint Fátima with her sweet, young face and elegant blue and white dress. Down the mountain we skidded in the basket sled, the runners being wood, not steel as I had earlier recorded, to the fish market where we found big fresh 60 to 70 pound tuna and also bright-eyed fresh dorado. Back on the Francesco Morosini, the captain decided to send for some fish, and that evening the chef did well by them.'
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