Letter added to Clarke Historical Library Hemingway Collection; endowment grows, too
With the help of MHC, the Clarke Historical Library at CMU was able to purchase the letter auctioned by North Central Michigan College. It was written by Ernest Hemingway to his father and discusses his living arrangements in the fall of 1919 when he decided to live in Petoskey and make a serious effort to live as a writer. The letter lists a number of books the young Hemingway was reading, although he unfortunately doesn’t share any opinions about the authors, according to Frank Boles, library director. The Windemere home tour offered by Ernest Mainland to benefit the Michigan Hemingway Endowment, together with other recent pledges, has grown the fund by $10,000 to a present balance of approximately $30,000, Boles reports. “Two traveling exhibits, using two sets of the banners that were first shown at the Hemingway exhibit at Petoskey’s Crooked Tree Art Center this summer, are now making their way around the state, along with copies of the exhibit catalog and the dvd created as part of the exhibit. We are equally pleased with our partnerships with the MHS and the MHC in the Great Michigan Read program,” Boles said.