Ernest Hemingway Documents at the Disposal of Specialists

[Judi Lynn]

Ernest Hemingway Documents at the Disposal of Specialists


HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 29 (acn) Havana’s Ernest Hemingway Museum will put a collection of documents of the celebrated US writer at the disposal of specialists, beginning January 5, 2009.

Cuban News Agency

Experts, writers and scholars in general will have access to the digitalized documents of the work of the author of The Snows of Kilimanjaro, reports Granma newspaper.

After the death of the Nobel Literature Prize winner, some 2,000 documents belonging to his mail and to the manuscripts of some of his works, approximately 900 maps, 3,000 photographs, and 9,000 books, magazines and booklets, were left at La Vigia Farm, on the outskirts of Havana, where he lived for several years.

This entire legacy is being preserved, restored, and digitalized by specialists from the Hemmingway Museum, the National Center for Preservation and Restoration, and the Cuban National Council for Cultural Heritage.

Some 3,200 pages of documents are so far reproduced in digital format, like telegrams, letters, and clippings of manuscripts of some of his works, like the epilogue to For Whom the Bells Tolls and the film script of The Old Man and the Sea.

http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/1229doc_hemingway.htm

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This is the only other material available right now on the Hemmingway papers. Oddly enough, it's from the New York Post. They took it from the Times of London:

CUBA UNVEILS PAPA'S LOST PAPERS

By GRAHAM KEELEY

Last updated: 1:05 am
January 4, 2009
Posted: 1:05 am
January 4, 2009

Unpublished texts by Ernest Hemingway about the hunt for German U-boats off the Cuban coast during the Second World War are part of an important collection of the writer's works to be released tomorrow.

While serving on a ship tracking Nazi submarines in the Gulf of Mexico, Hemingway wrote in code about his exploits. The notes are among 3,000 letters and other writings by the Nobel laureate to be made accessible online starting Monday by curators at the writer's former residence in Cuba, where he lived from 1939 to 1961.

Scholars and fans hoping to read some unpublished fragments of stories may be disappointed as curators at the Finca Vigia museum in Havana say that there are not known to be any new literary texts in the collection. Among the array of documents, though, they may find clues to some previously unexplained chapters in Hemingway's colorful life.

The collection includes the epilogue of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and the screenplay for "The Old Man and the Sea." Inaurys Portuondo, the museum's digital specialist, said: "This is an exquisite selection. There are no unedited literary {pieces}, at least as far as we know, but we know that specialists might be able to come up with new theories after consulting the archive."

After the United States entered the Second World War in 1941, Hemingway joined in efforts to hunt German submarines threatening shipping off Cuba and the US. Ada Rosa Alfonso, the Finca Vigia curator, said that the documents relating to U-boats could serve to "corroborate Hemingway's theory that they were refueling in the north of the island."

More:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01042009/postopinion/postopbooks/cuba_unveils_papas_lost_papers_147088.htm