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Edward P. Jones sites that offer lesson plans and 2006 classroom guides. The Friends of the Missing an old Friends of the Fall/Winter Collection Newsletter or can’t recall what Richard Russo Hemingway said as guest speaker at the 2005 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Awards? Collection Visit the News section of the Collection at www.jfklibrary.org You can also register Newsletter online for the Forum on December 3. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum The News section also provides the transcripts of past forums, past Hemingway Foundation/PEN Not dated, 1950’s, Ernest Hemingway with transcripts, past news releases, the his cat Cristobal Colon, at the Finca Vigia, Patrick Hemingway to reminisce about his father, the Hemingway home in John. F. Kennedy Library Foundation Newsletter and the Friends of the Ernest Hemingway, at an upcoming Kennedy Library Forum Website Update Hemingway Collection Newsletters. 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., is Edward P. Jones. Mr. Jones won the Since the launch of our new website at Join the Friends of the Hemingway This winter, Patrick Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway has written and the National Book Critics Circle www.jfklibrary.org we have continued to Collection section allows you to join the son of Ernest Hemingway, will discuss forewords to other works of his father Award for The Known World and won a add information about the Hemingway Friends of the Hemingway Collection his father’s life and legacy with Chris including: Hemingway on War, MacArthur Award Fellowship in 2004. Collection. The Finding Aid for the and help preserve the manuscripts and Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball Hemingway on Hunting, the Finca His fi rst collection of short stories, Manuscripts and the Outgoing and writings of Ernest Hemingway. You now and a long-time admirer of Ernest Vigia Complete Short Stories, and Lost in the City, won the Hemingway Incoming Correspondence series is have the option of making a donation Hemingway’s writings. The Kennedy the , Easton Foundation/PEN Award in 1992 and now available online. The Outgoing online. Library Forum will take place at the Press edition. was short-listed for the National Book Correspondence series is searchable Save the Date ~ Sunday, April 1, 2007 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Following his graduation from Award. by either date or name. and Museum on Sunday, December 3 Harvard, Magna Cum Laude, Patrick The Hemingway Foundation/PEN The judges for the 2007 Hemingway The Online Resources section from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. We hope that Hemingway left the United States Awards and the L.L. Winship/PEN Foundation/PEN Awards will be has been updated to refl ect other you will join us for this rare opportunity Ernest Hemingway fishing with his 3 sons, Patrick, for , , where he New England Awards ceremony is held Elizabeth Berg, Chang-Rae Lee, Jack & Gregory institutions that contain either some to hear the personal recollections of operated his own company each spring at the John. F. Kennedy (winner of the Hemingway Foundation of Hemingway’s papers, fi rst editions Patrick Hemingway. To learn more for twelve years. Later, for an equal Presidential Library and Museum. /PEN Award in 1995 for Native of his books or other interesting items. about this event or to make reservations length of time, he taught at the College We hope that this information will be We are happy to announce that Speaker), and Sue Miller. visit the Kennedy Library website at of African Wildlife Management in useful to the researcher, teacher and the keynote speaker for the 2007 We hope that you will join us for www.jfklibrary.org Mweka, Tanzania, a United Nations Hemingway afi cionado. Teachers may Hemingway Foundation/PEN Awards, this exciting literary event. Patrick Hemingway is the leading sponsored school to train young be interested in visiting several of the taking place on Sunday, April 1, from expert on Ernest Hemingway’s life and Africans to be game wardens in the works. As his second son, Patrick lived national parks. Letter from Patrick Hemingway The Friends of the Hemingway with his father in , Florida, Patrick Hemingway was born in Collection was founded in 1990 by Patrick and in , Cuba. While living in Kansas City, Missouri. His birth was Hemingway, son of the Nobel-prize winning This spring we celebrated the second successful year of the preservation of my author, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Tanzania, Patrick was the only family a diffi cult one for his mother, Pauline father’s papers as part of the Save America’s Treasures grant. Denis Zaphiro, game ranger, Ernest and to provide fi nancial support and resources member to be near his father at the Pfeiffer Hemingway, an event which no to preserve and make accessible the Ernest Your continued support makes all of the above activities possible. And as the Patrick Hemingway in Africa Hemingway Collection at the John F. Save America’s Treasures grant winds down in 2007 your generosity will become time of the horrendous double airplane doubt inspired his father’s description Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. crashes in Africa in 1954. of a similar hard delivery, this time especially important as we continue to support the preservation of this wonderful Tax-deductible donations and bequests and unique collection. In 1999, Mr. Hemingway edited his fatal, for nurse Catherine Barkley in the may be made to: If you are not a member of the Friends of the Hemingway Collection, please father’s posthumous novel, True at First famous novel set in Italy, Light, published by Simon and Schuster . Friends of the Hemingway Collection consider joining now. Your donation and membership will help preserve the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, collection and support programming that examines and the and appearing for weeks on the best Patrick Hemingway now lives in Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125. seller list. Bozeman, with his wife, Carol. Web Site: www.jfklibrary.org creative process as personifi ed by my father’s literary career. He has one daughter, Edwina, who lives Sincerely yours, with her husband and her four sons in Naples, Florida. Masthead photograph by Earl Theisen, Ernest and Patrick Hemingway, 1946 courtesy of Earl Theisen Archives Save America’s Treasures Oversized Material Hemingway Artifacts tentatively titled “At the Interstices- The National Endowment for the As we are rehousing the many The Hemingway Collection contains -Rethinking the Self in Ernest Humanities (NEH) has extended the letters that Hemingway received from a variety of objects including fl asks, Hemingway,” focuses on the effects Save America’s Treasures grant to family as well as contemporaries paintings, medals and compasses of cross-cultural experiences and the end of June 2007. The Library such as William Faulkner, F. Scott identifi ed as Ernest Hemingway’s. Hemingway’s creation of a Self. received the grant in April 2004 for Fitzgerald, and Ford Maddox Ford, An objects conservator, Alexandra The Hemingway Collection also the preservation of the Hemingway we are also identifying oversized Allardt from ARTcare Resources hosted international researchers over Collection. The extension was material within the correspondence. recently visited the library to examine the summer from Japan and France. granted to allow additional time In the past, some of this material a sampling of the objects in the Mr. Miyamoto and Ms. Watanabe, for the completion of preservation The Hemingway Room at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was folded and included with the Collection. She identifi ed individual from Japan, are currently working on an exhibit about Ernest Hemingway tasks in house as well as by outside Shades and Shutters Alfred Rice, Hemingway’s lawyer correspondence. We are unfolding it, items at risk of further deterioration, conservators. fl attening it and rehousing it in fl at and suggested some basic changes to at the Hiroshima Museum of Art. This summer the Hemingway Room for many years, was instrumental in The largest, most time consuming, boxes or in fl at fi les. Paper in the form our storage methods. She is scheduled Florence Ferriol, from France, has just at the John F. Kennedy Presidential having these items donated to the and least glamorous task of the project of fl yers or magazine articles that is to return to the Kennedy Library later completed her fi rst graduate degree and Library and Museum received a Library. They are available for viewing continues ~ the refoldering and folded eventually develops a wear line this Fall to conserve a number of items was at the library for the month of July wonderful update through the generosity in the Library’s audiovisual research reboxing of the collection. This effort and may perhaps tear along the folded including a briefcase that Hemingway researching the stories for of Carol and Patrick Hemingway. room. An appointment is recommended, removes the fragile documents from line. As the paper ages it becomes used to carry his manuscripts. her doctorate. Also conducting research The dark wood blinds which were part and may be made by calling folders and boxes that have become brittle and may break or split along in July was Ms. Hiromi Tsuj of Japan. of the initial decorating were showing 617.514.1622. The audiovisual archives highly acidic over time and places them the fold. In order to minimize that type She is studying Hemingway’s Garden the effects of being raised and lowered hours are Monday ~ Friday 8:30 am in acid-free boxes that are buffered to of damage we are opening oversized of Eden and is one of the leading young many times. through 4:30 pm. retard the effects of migrant acidity material, refoldering it and storing the scholars of Hemingway in Japan as well With Carol’s able assistance we While the collection is not complete, and atmospheric pollutants. Since material fl at. as a member of the Hemingway Society now have wonderful new bone mesh it comprises an impressive list: our last Newsletter, we have rehoused Oversized movie posters including of Japan. vinyl coated shades and complimentary Carlene Brennen is a frequent approximately half of the “Incoming Theatrical fi lms: “The Killers” starring Lee Marvin, wooden shutters. They brighten the researcher in the audiovisual portion of Correspondence series.” Among the A Farewell to Arms, 20th Century Fox Angie Dickinson and Ronald Reagan appearance of the room and create an the collection. The extensive time spent interesting correspondence that we have , Warner Brothers are being conserved at the Northeast ambience similar to the living room at there has resulted in her publishing rehoused is a postcard that Hemingway , United Artists Document Conservation Center the Finca Vigia. The shades will Hemingway’s Cats: An Illustrated received from his high school classmate, Adventures of a Young Man, 20th Century Fox (NEDCC). They will be returned to reduce heat and diffuse the sunlight Biography. As a result of her research M.M. Musselman, written in purple ink, Under My Skin, 20th Century Fox the Library this fall and will be stored in the room further protecting the and addressed to “Dear Stein.” , 20th Century Fox in individual folders to ensure their she identifi ed the names of many of the paintings and objects. He wrote the postcard while Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 20th Century Fox protection from rips or tears when the cats in various photographs that are Researchers will be able to adjust Recent Researchers in the was recuperating in Italy in 1918 after Islands in the Stream, Paramount fi les are accessed. part of the Kennedy Library’s extensive the shades and shutters so that they Hemingway Room sustaining injuries to his leg from Soldier’s Home, Perspective Films audiovisual collection. may enjoy the water view or block out Scrapbooks shrapnel during World War I. The Researchers continue to pursue the sunlight. postcard titled “A Shot in the Arm,” is a Adaptations for television: In addition to the scrapbooks new avenues of study and publication utilizing Ernest Hemingway’s extensive photograph of a young soldier receiving Ultraviolet Light Protection Playhouse 90: created by Grace Hemingway, Ernest’s mother, that were highlighted in our manuscript and correspondence an immunization shot. Musselman Prior to the installation of new Seven Lively Arts: The World of Nick Adams last Newsletter we are continuing to collection held at the John F. Kennedy muses that after he receives his shot the shades and shutters in the Hemingway Omnibus: address the conservation needs of other Presidential Library and Museum. next day he may be joining Hemingway Room, the Library had the windows Omnibus: The Capital of the World scrapbooks contained in the collection. The two award recipients of the in the hospital. coated with a fi lm that will reduce Buick Electra Playhouse: The Killers Two of these scrapbooks contain 2006 Hemingway Research Grants Other preservation efforts include transmitted and refl ected sunlight, Buick Electra Playhouse: The Fifth Column predominantly newspaper clippings have recently visited the room to use the rehousing of diaries and fi shing providing additional protection for Buick Electra Playhouse: from Ernest and Mary’s plane crashes the Collection. Mark Cirino, also a logs that Hemingway maintained and the Andre´ Masson and Waldo Peirce The Snows of Kilimanjaro in Africa. The newspaper headlines, recipient of a grant from the Hemingway where he recorded the type, quantity paintings recently conserved and on Buick Electra Playhouse: in a variety of languages, initially Society and currently writing his and size of fi sh he saw as well as the The Gambler, the Nun & the Radio display in the room. doctoral dissertation at The Graduate count and size of those caught. As part Kraft Television Theater: announced the demise of Hemingway. Hemingway on Film and Television Center-City University of New York, of our preservation effort they have been The Playwright Hour: The Battler The scrapbooks also contain telegrams measured for individual boxes and will A little known sidelight to the from many of his friends including is pursuing research into the function , Marlene Dietrich of consciousness in Hemingway’s November 1946, Ernest Hemingway and sons be placed in an individually labeled Hemingway Collection is the theatrical We hope to provide additional Patrick (left) and Gregory (right) with cats Microclimate clam shell box to limit fi lms and television fi lms or kinescopes and Charles Scribner. They express fi ction. Mayuri Deka, awarded a Good Will, Princessa, and Boise, at the Finca Vigia, information on individual shows in the Hemingway home in San Francisco de Paula, deterioration from handling, acidity, based on Hemingway’s novels and short their worry and the ultimate relief felt 2006 Hemingway Research Grant, is future newsletters. currently pursuing her graduate work Cuba. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway light and rapid changes in temperature stories that are housed in the Library’s when it was established that Ernest Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy and humidity. Audiovisual Archives. and Mary were safe. at Kent State University. Her work, Presidential Library and Museum, Boston