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HMY545Mv6 HemingwayNewsletter06 6/8/06 12:39 PM Page 1

Kennedy Library Launches New Website The Friends of the 2006 Featuring ~ Archives Spring/Summer On March 21, 2006, the John F. research. There is also a section Friends of the Hemingway Collection, Hemingway Kennedy Presidential Library and that highlights recent news about News about the Hemingway Archives, Museum went “live” with a newly the collection. The side bar to the Online Resources available Collection designed website. Highlighted left outlines the major areas of the through the website, Statement in this new design is the site: Hemingway Research Grants, about Publishing and Copyright Newsletter. Archives. Holdings Related to Ernest Permissions, and information about Hemingway, Membership in the the Hemingway Research Room. John F.Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Preserving Hemingway’s Scrapbooks

Funding from the Save America’s Once the photographic portion of the The Hemingway site is easily located Treasures Grant has allowed the Library project has been completed, our goal under the Historical Resources to preserve extraordinary and rare is to make the photographs available section on the main page of the Hemingway scrapbooks, posters and digitally via the new Kennedy Library Library’s webpage www.jfklibrary.org works of art. web site, fulfilling the objective When you arrive at the main page Ernest Hemingway’s mother, Grace of providing access to the holdings of of the Hemingway Archives, Hall Hemingway documented her the Library via the Internet to anyone, you can read a brief overview of son’s childhood with five scrapbooks anywhere, at any time. how the collection came to the filled with photographs, letters, Kennedy Library and its importance ephemera, and her own handwritten to Hemingway scholarship and notes. These books have long been withdrawn from research use due to fragility, but photographs of the books’ pages will once again make this material available to all. Letter from The scrapbooks arrived at the We hope you will be pleased to learn that the preservation work funded by Library in 1975 in one of the first the Save America’s Treasures preservation program is proceeding on course, groups of collection material from as the Kennedy Library’s Hemingway Curator, Susan Wrynn reports in this Mary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s Newsletter. The preservation project with the Museo Hemingway is also fourth wife. Although the Northeast proceeding smoothly, and we hope to see its completion this year. Document Conservation Center Interest in the Hemingway Collection continues to grow. Many educational performed de-acidification and groups have visited the Hemingway Research Room to learn about the other preservation work on the books The Friends of the Hemingway Collection Collection and Ernest Hemingway since the last Newsletter. The Curator also soon after they arrived, these was founded in 1990 by Patrick Hemingway, son of the one-hundred-year-old plus volumes Nobel-prize winning author, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis assists a constant flow of researcher visits and requests in addition to to provide financial support and resources to preserve and critically needed preservation. The Salon Series is continuing; last fall are inherently vulnerable to damage. make accessible the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the Volume 1 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. featured A.E. Hotchner reminiscing about his relationship with Hemingway. As part of the Save America’s of ’s And the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award ceremony drew a huge crowd on a Treasures grant, the books have Tax-deductible donations and bequests may be made to: five scrapbooks of beautiful Sunday afternoon. been re-housed in custom boxes, “Dark blue eyes, red cheeks. Friends of the Hemingway Collection, Ernest growing up. John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Your support makes all of the above activities possible, and for that and each page of each book is being White lacy dress with pink bows. Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125. photographed with 4” x 5” color Light blue shoes from Grandma Web Site: www.jfklibrary.org we are deeply grateful. Much remains to be done, of course, and we will continue to work to earn your support. negative stock for preservation and Cherrie that Marcelline wore in Masthead photo by reproduction purposes. her year old photograph.” Earl Theisen, courtesy of Earl Theisen Archives. Sincerely, HMY545Mv6 HemingwayNewsletter06 6/8/06 12:39 PM Page 3

Save America’s Treasures Grant Protects Hemingway Collection Preservation. The Library has is the son of Gregory and grandson completed its second year of a of Ernest. Save America’s Treasures grant from Colette is an art historian and is the National Endowment for the currently writing a book on the art Douglas Trevor, Jennifer Haigh, Daniel Alarcon, Joyce Carol Oates Yiyun Li, Patrick Hemingway, Deborah Leff, Joyce Carol Oates, Yiyun Li, and Patrick Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway John Crawford PHumanities for the preservation of collection of Ernest Hemingway. As the Hemingway Collection. In recent a result of her research the Library months, the Hemingway staff has has gained a far better understanding Joyce Carol Oates Keynotes PEN/Hemingway Award concentrated its efforts on a critical of the significance of a watercolor On Sunday, April 2, a record 600 language, Chinese, she never spoke Princeton University. Ms. Oates preservation function: refoldering and stored as Oversized Material within people came to the John F. Kennedy of her emotions, but when she learned did not disappoint her admirers as the Other Material series. It is in reboxing the Hemingway Collection. Presidential Library and Museum this new language, English, she she presented an impressive essay. The task involves removing Hemingway’s fact a wonderful watercolor portrait for the presentation of the 2006 was able to speak of her emotions. She introduced it as an essay papers from acidic folders and boxes of Ernest Hemingway in a beret. awards ceremony. NEDCC created Hemingway Foundation/PEN and A former immunologist, Ms. Li said because “if I say lecture, everyone’s in which they were stored and an 11 x 17” print of the poster before The title on the verso in violet rehousing them in appropriate non- ballpoint pen is “Ernest Hemingway L.L. Winship/PEN New England the same thing was true for her eyes glaze over.” conservation so that attendees could Awards and to hear distinguished and that it wasn’t until she began Patrick Hemingway presented acidic folders and boxes. To date all compare it to the recently conserved by Antonio Gattorno / 1934.” keynote speaker, Joyce Carol Oates. writing in English that she found a the award honoring his father to of the Manuscript series including document. People appeared to be A Farewll to Arms, For Whom the fascinated not only by the poster but Thanks to the generosity of the whole other side to her life. Ms. Li and the finalists. Patrick and Bell Tolls and In Our Time and all of by the wonderful restoration of the Hemingway❧ family, the Kennedy Finalists for the award were Daniel his wife Carol had a Hemingway the Outgoing Correspondence series poster. The encapsulated poster will Library is the major repository of Alarcon for War by Candlelight and family reunion with daughter Mina, including letters to his mother and now be stored in a secure area in a Ernest Hemingway’s manuscripts, Douglas Trevor for The Thin Tear in grandson Patrick Hemingway Adams, father and to other writers such as flat file. It will no longer be folded photographs, correspondence and the Fabric of Space. Coincidently, cousin John Sanford and his wife F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood when stored. other literary materials. Douglas Trevor was a former Judy, and nephew Sean Hemingway Anderson, and Gertrude Stein have Other posters to be conserved The Hemingway Foundation/PEN student of Joyce Carol Oates’s. and his wife Colette present. been rehoused in 57 Hollinger boxes. include the performance poster for Award, America’s best known and Ms. Oates is the author of many The staff has started to rehouse the To Have and Have Not, publicity largest award for first works of works of fiction, poetry, and The L.L.Winship/PEN New England Award Incoming Correspondence series posters for Islands in the Stream and fiction, was presented to Yiyun Li non-fiction. Her latest novel is the honors a book with a New England setting or by a that includes letters from Carlos New England author. Named for longtime Boston , Scribner’s for A Thousand Years of Good highly praised The Falls. A recipient Globe editor Laurence L. Winship, it was presented Baker, John Dos Passos as well as poster for , 20th Prayers. Ms. Li read a poignant of the National Book Award and the by John Crawford, grandson of L.L. Winship. family members. Century Fox’s poster for The Sun This year the award was given in fiction to passage from her novel describing PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence Jennifer Haigh for Baker Towers (Hemingway/PEN Book and Movie Posters. A group Also Rises, the poster for the play a conversation between a young in Short Fiction, Ms. Oates is Award winner 2004) in nonfiction to Leo Damrosch of posters advertising either the The Fifth Column, and Universal woman and her father in which the the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius and in publication of a Hemingway book or poetry to Stanley Kunitz for The Wild Braid. Pictures poster for The Killers starring woman says that in her native Professor of the Humanities at a movie based on a Hemingway novel Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. have been selected for preservation. The watercolor portrait is adhered During their lifetime the posters have into an old mat with “Scotch” tape, A.E. Hotchner spoke about his old friend, Ernest been stored in a variety of locations masking tape and strips from a Two Hemingway grants were awarded for 2006 and in a variety of ways, all of which Hemingway, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential gummed address label. affects their condition and conservation Library and Museum on November 28, 2005. They were awarded to: needs. The most significant damage The portrait is slightly cockled and Hotchner is the recent editor of the book, Dear Mayuri Deka from Kent State University for the topic to the posters occurred as a result has surface grime. Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest “At the Interstices ~ Rethinking the Self in Ernest Hemingway” of being folded multiple times. Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner, in which he Mark Cirino of New York University for his topic The posters have a variety of Antonio Gattorno (Cuban, 1904- explores their relationship. The moderator for this “Hemingway and Consciousness.” conservation issues including 1980) was one of the pioneers of Kennedy forum was Justin Kaplan, winner of the darkening due to age, tears, surface the modern art movement in Cuba. Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The grants are awarded to scholars requiring the use of the Hemingway Collection. Ernest Hemingway and John Dos his biography, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. They range from $200 to $1,000. Preference is given to dissertation research by soiling, tape residue, cockling, and Ph.D. candidates and research in recently opened or relatively unused portions of small losses of color and paper. Passos sponsored Gattorno’s first You can hear the forum at the WGBH website for the collection, but all proposals are welcome. Application deadline: November 1. They have been sent to the Northeast U.S. exhibit. From the 1930’s Kennedy Library forums Awards announced: December 15. Applications received after the deadline will be

Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) “Ernest Hemingway by Antonio Gattorno / 1934.” through the 1970s, reviews of his http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id held for consideration in the next cycle. Please visit our website for additional to establish the cost to conserve. solo exhibitions in the New York =2064 information http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK+Library +and+Museum/Kennedy +Library+Foundation/Programs+and+Library+Support/Research+ Grants+ and+ Times and other important newspapers Save the date: The movie poster of For Whom the Watercolor Drawing. A recent Fellowships/Ernest+Hemingway+Research+Grants.htm Bell Tolls starring Ingrid Bergman researcher in the Ernest Hemingway consider him a major talent and The 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN April Or contact: and Gary Cooper was conserved and Collection was Colette C. Hemingway ~ compare him to artists as diverse and L. L. Winship/PEN Grant and Fellowship Coordinator: as Eduard Manet and Salvador Dali. 2007 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum displayed at the PEN/Hemingway the wife of Sean Hemingway who New England Awards will be held on Columbia Point, Boston, MA 02125

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