$2,500
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Madrid, Hotel Suecia, [June] 27, [1959]. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 26.8 x 20.5cm.) 1p. autograph letter on Hotel Suecia, Madrid letterhead, signed “Love Papa”; light creasing along folds; with the original air mail postal envelope addressed in Hemingway’s hand. Addressed to Aaron E. Hotchner, arranging to meet in Alicante, touching on boxing matches & bullfighting. “Dear Hotch: We’d figured out all the combinations of meeting and still making Zaragoza. But then got your wire departure delayed...Flight at Alicante is 6pm June 28th. We will meet at Carleton Hotel - (Biggest there) will leave tickets. To get to Alicante you can fly to Valencia and take taxi from there. But Bill[ Nathan “Bill” Davis] says best take taxi from here via Albacette. ALBACETTE...Antonio in fine physical and mental shape. But this is his first with Luis Miguel since L.M. retired and it is rough to make your comeback fight after such a bad wound. Am also betting on the Swede [Ingemar Johansson?]S...bet him at 4/1 and thinks he should make it...See you soon Hotch. Wish we were meeting you and driving up together. Love Papa. We have Salmon pink English Ford with Gibraltar license plates E H.” Contents & signature clear but light. Framed with silver print portrait of Hemingway.
Aaron Edward Hotchner, born in St. Louis in 1918 or 1920, editor, novelist, playwright, and biographer, was a close friend of Ernest Hemingway, and adapted many of his works for theater and television. He was the author of "Papa Hemingway," a biography of his friend and fellow writer.