A Different Side of Papa Hemingway
A cache of personal letters and postcards written to his immediate family by the famous author Ernest Hemingway has been donated to the Special Collections Library of the Penn State University Libraries by Ernest Hemingway Mainland, the nephew of the famous author.
Many of the letters and cards were written to Mainland's mother, Hemingway's younger sister.
This is especially evident in the letters to his little sister Madelaine, a confidante to whom Hemingway refers in letters by the nicknames "Sunny" or "Nunbones." Madelaine Hemingway collected the letters, which were passed on to her son, Mainland.
"Keep sensible, don't get tragic and don't write silly things," Hemingway signed off in one letter written Feb. 19, 1930, to his mother.
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