Subject: Re: Seymour
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 11 1997 - 23:30:26 GMT
tim, nice research on the hemingway/salinger nexus...I do have the
letter's text (if it's the same one--i think jds wrote several and my
source is the princeton library's rare books collection of story archives)
and thought it was fawning but salinger seemed to imply that hemingway had
taken an interest in the younger writer...anything more on that? will
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 oconnort@nyu.edu wrote:
>
> > I read somewhere that JDS met Hemmingway in Paris or something. ANyone
> > else know about that?
>
> Yes, they met in France after D-Day. Hemingway is said to have shot
> the head off a chicken to show off a gun of his; a fictionalized
> version of this appears in "Esme," where the narrator is disgusted
> by his buddy.
>
> I have a copy of the letter JDS wrote to Hemingway. (It's at the JFK
> library in Boston, as part of their Hemingway collection.) It was a
> sweet letter -- sweet if you imagine JDS writing *fan mail* -- and
> indicates that he hopes to find his own version of Catherine, the nurse
> in "A Farewell to Arms."
>
> This episode is covered briefly in Carlos Baker's bio of Hemingway. I
> suspect it's also in the Ian Hamilton bio of JDS, but I don't recall
> exactly, and don't have my copy at hand. 8-(
>
> --tim o'connor
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