American Literary Studies
The Charles D. Field Collection of Ernest Hemingway
The Papers
The Charles D. Field Collection of Ernest Hemingway is of particular
interest because it includes Hemingway's correspondence with Carlos Baker,
which begins in 1951 as Baker was writing Hemingway: The Writer As
Artist and continues until 1961. In these 31 letters, which are not
included in Baker's Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961,
Hemingway is remarkably generous in discussing his personal life and the
process of writing. Also important is another set of largely unpublished
letters Hemingway wrote to his close W.W.I. friend, Eric Edward "Chink"
Dorman-Smith from 1950 to 1955. Frank and humorous in their tone, these
revealing letters cover such topics as their shared war experiences, the
political climate of the day, and Hemingway's reaction to receiving the
Nobel Prize.
Additonally, the Field Collection of Hemingway features numerous first
editions, many inscribed, as well as translations, articles, and galley
proofs covering vitrually all of Hemingway's printed output, other Hemingway
letters and Hemingway manuscripts from 1908 to 1961, along with documents
relating to the writer's life, and correspondence about him from 1918
to 1963.
The Ernest Hemingway Collection of Charles D. Field (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1985) is an annotated catalogue of the collection.
It does not, however, include details of the more recently acquired Dorman-Smith
correspondence.
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Call Number: M0440
Size: 1.25 linear feet
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading
room of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of
this finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet
Explorer version 6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version
on the Stanford server; if not, click here for the html version on the
Online Archives of California server.
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department
of Special Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special
Collections' Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading
Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Photocopies, photographs,
and microfilm can be made of some materials in the collections. For more
information about the collections and access policies, please contact
Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail
at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Career of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961):
Journalist, short-story writer, essayist and novelist, Ernest Hemingway
was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. The author of numerous
works, he first achieved critical success with The Sun Also Rises
(1926). Throughout his life, he was renowned as much for his eventful
personal life as his contributions to literature. Decorated for bravery
in W.W.I, he embodied a masculine vigor in his pursuits of hunting and
fishing. He was married three times: to Hadley Richardson in 1921, to
Martha Gellhorn in 1940, and to Mary Welsh in 1946, and had three children:
John Hadley Nicanor (first marriage), Patrick and Gregory (second marriage).
His terse, economical prose style and a rejection of traditional values
for a more individual moral system made his work distinctive. Though some
critics argue that his early writing is his strongest, he received the
Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. In the last few years of his life
he was in poor health and unable to write. He committed suicide on July
2, 1961.
Arrangement of the Hemingway Papers:
The Hemingway collection is arranged as follows:
PART I: Writings by Hemingway
A. Books and Pamplets: American, English and English Language Editions
B. Contributions and First Appearances
C. Translations
D. Adaptations
E. Ephemera
PART II: Writings about Hemingway
A. Books and Pamphlets about Hemingway
B. Newspaper, Periodical and Ephemeral Material about Hemingway
PART III: Correspondence and Manuscripts Relating to Hemingway
A. Hemingway Correspondence
B. Hemingway Manuscripts and Documents
C. Correspondence Relating to Hemingway
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July 5, 2006
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