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in a letter written to Maxwell Perkins Grau-du-Roi, France May 27, 1927...
 
in a letter written to Charles Scribner Nice, France December 29, 1949...
 
“HEMINGWAY”
(Portrait of Ernest Hemingway)
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Dear Mr. Perkins: Here are two more stories for the book. I didn’t get a copy of the Little Review with the Banal Story in it - as I recall it wasn’t much but I remember Edmund Wilson writing that he liked it so it might be worth getting hold of in N.Y. It was the number of the R.L. which came out last summer. Did you see some pieces in the New Republic for, I imagine, the next week of May 5? If you think it advisable we could include them at the end of the book. How did it look as the length? They were three sketches called Italy 1927 and were more on the story side than anything else. I would put on a different title in the proofs (retitled “Che Ti Dice La Patria”). I think they would go rather well. So that makes three more things to go in and if they are set up (if it’s not too late) I can arrange their order in the galleys. I have your letter with the check for $750. Thank you very much. Dexter was very nice. He is still in Paris and I’ll see him when I go up there next week. I’m working pretty well now. Donald Friede (Friede), who is one of the partners in Boni and Liveright, came to see me in Paris. He was very worked up about getting me to come back to his firm saying that I would never have been allowed to leave if he had been there etc. He said he had made the trip especially to see me etc. and wanted me to sign a contract giving me an advance of $3,000 on my novels, $1,000 on any book of short stories or essays, 15% royalties, no cuts on by products and I forget what else. His argument was that Boni and Liveright had published In Our Time when no one else would and that I had only been allowed to leave because he wasn’t there. I told him that I could not discuss the matter as I was absolutely satisfied where I was, that I thought Scribners had advertised The Sun splendidly and had supported it and pushed it through a time before it began to sell when many publishers would have dropped it, and that I had only left Boni and Liveright when they turned down the Torrents which you took without ever having seen the mss. of The Sun. As for the In Our Time, I told him I was sure you would have published it as I found a letter from you; written a long time previously, waiting for me on returning to Paris after accepting Liveright’s cabled offer. Friede also offered to try and buy the Torrents and The Sun from yourselves and bring them all out later in a uniform edition. He said Scribners had offered to buy the In Our Time but that Liveright had no intention of selling it and were now bringing out a new edition. I don’t know whether there is anything to that story except the new edition part which I heard some time ago was coming out. I write you this for your own information so you will not get any garbled versions or think I am dickering with other publishers. The Cosmopolitan people came over here a few weeks ago but I told them before they could talk money that is was useless as I was absolutely satisfied. Friede, however, had his mind made up that he had to make this offer and I could not avoid it. This is a fine place below Aigues-Mortes in the Camargue and the Mediterranean with a long beach and a fine fishing port. Am going back next week to Paris for a month and then down to Spain until the $750 runs out. Am healthy and working well and it ought to be a good summer. Hugh Walpole writes me on May 16th that he is saying something in the English Nation of that week which sounds to me extravagant but which, if you encounter the Nation, might make good advertising. I hope you have a fine summer and that these stories are not too late. Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer were married in Paris on May 10, 1927 at L’Église de St. Honoré-d’Eylau, located at 9 Place Victor Hugo in the 16th Arrondissement. Selected as the location of choice, as opposed to the Protestant Temple de Passy, only a ½ mile in distance -- a detail remembered by Ada Mac Leish, and recorded in Carlos Baker’s Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (N.Y. 1969). Thomas H. Ward was Hemingway’s best man at the ceremony. The Mac Leishes did not attend the wedding. Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden was based on his honeymoon with Pauline in the Camargue fishing village of Le Grau-du-Roi.
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947) was the grandson of William M. Evarts; a U.S. Senator, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Secretary of State. He was the great-great-grandson of Roger Sherman; the Declaration of Independence signer, and uncle to Archibald Cox, the Watergate Scandal special prosecutor. Perkins descended from Puritans John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton, with roots tracing back to Henry II of England. He worked as a reporter for the New York Times before joining the publishing house of Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1910.  In 1926, Perkins published Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, followed in 1929 by Hemingway’s next novel and number one best-seller, A Farewell to Arms.
Charles Scribner III (1890-1952) of Charles Scribner's Sons, a publishing company founded in 1846, died quite suddenly after reading Hemingway’s classic The Old Man and the Sea manuscript, which  was dedicated to him and Maxwell Perkins. In 1978, Charles Scribner's Sons merged with Atheneum, becoming The Scribner Book Companies. This was followed by another merger with Macmillan in 1984. In 1994, Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan. The former imprint, Scribner was retained by Simon & Schuster. In 1999,  reference books went to Thomson Gale, a research enterprise active in educational publishing for schools, libraries, and businesses.
Dear Charlie: Thanks very much for Guns Wanted (J.K. Stanford, 1950). It is a hell of a funny book and shooting parts are excellent. Am on next to last chapter now. I don’t mind the snobism on account being a snob myself though not always about the same things. We drove down here from Paris with Peter and Virginia Viertel and piled in Hotch (A.E. Hotchner) at the last minute. Had Christmas eve at Saulieux after a lunch at Auxerre to end lunches and Christmas dinner below Valence. Then slept the next night at Nimes after seeing Avignon and the Pont du Gard. Went down to Aigues-Mortes at the edge of the Camargue and out to Le Grau-du-Roi and checked on the tuna fishing there. There are two big runs, one in April and the other in August.
     The girls had never seen Provence and Aigues-Mortes is a hell of a place. The only old fortified town that has remained intact without ever being restored. They never let Violette le Duc get his hands on it. Where Saint Louis took off for the Seventh and Eighth Crusades that you must be familiar with from Froissart’s Chronicles. He picked up the old Rale on the first one and probably dysenteric and died on the second; son finished building the town. St. Louis needed it for a port and supply base when the Dukes of Burgundy held Marseilles and le Grau-du-Roi was the only port he had and it was made by hand. I always love it down there and we had wonderful weather after two days of fog coming down through Burgundy and along the Rhone.
 
     Afterwards we drove across the Camargue and through Arles to Aix en Provence and spent the night there and yesterday loaded Viertels and Hotch onto evening train from here to Paris.
 
     Hotch to re-join in Venice if office okays. Otherwise to mail ms. registered that secretary still hasn’t finished copying.
 
     Let me know how long I have to stay away from it before I can get it to you. Longer I can stay away before I have to get it to you the better it will be as gives me a whole new chance to see cold and plug any gaps and amplify where there is any need.
 
     Think can keep out of jams in Venice since everybody will be at Cortina. Hope so anyway. Trouble is that when finished a book don’t give a damn about any form of consequences whatever. Virginia was going to fly top cover for me while Mary went down on the deck and strafed the roads shipping. But Peter put a stop to that brilliant idea. Probably for the best. Who knows? Not me.
 
     Hope you had good holidays.
  
   Must knock off and write the children. Can’t make Venice with the bad weather that has shown up this morning in time to shoot this week-end. But will be there fine and rested for next week, staying here for a day and getting my letters caught up.
 
     You can write to the Guaranty Trust and they will forward it or directly to Gritti Palace Hotel, Venice. They are very sound and reliable and will forward it wherever we go.
 
     Mary sends her love. She has been having a very good time.
 
     Best always and holiday greetings etc.
Ernest Hemingway Yours always, Ernest
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, American author Ernest Miller Hemingway is seen in rare video footage which captures his time spent in Cuba with Fidel Castro during the 1950’s. Approximately a decade earlier, Hemingway is shown in the South of France -- a place that he openly shared as being one of his favourites. Watch it here on LIM MEDIA QUICK VIEW.
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