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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016
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A museum visitor, left, walks past a photograph of Ernest
Hemingway in the exhibit: “Ernest Hemingway: Between
Two Wars” at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
and Museum on Tuesday in Boston. Original drafts of Er-
nest Hemingway works along with personal items are on
display for the first time at the museum.
AP Photos/Steven Senne
Museum visitors examine a 1927 photograph that shows
Ernest Hemingway, center, at a bullfight in Pamplona
Spain in the exhibit: “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two
Wars” at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and
Museum in Boston.
ERNEST MONEY
Manuscripts among
rare Hemingway
items shown at
JFK library
in Boston and runs through December.
“He always felt responsible for being
where the action was,” said the 87-year-
old Hemingway. “A lot of writers just
retire to their rooms and describe their
childhood. He didn’t do that.”
By BOB SALSBERG
Associated Press
The Kennedy library, which opened in
1979, is a repository for the world’s larg-
est collection of documents, photographs
and personal mementos belonging to the
literary icon. The collection is one of the
library’s “greatest treasures,” said curator
Stacey Bredhoff.
“Ernest Hemingway: Between Two
Wars,” includes material rarely displayed
in public. It enjoyed an earlier run at the
Morgan Library & Museum in New York
City last fall.
Hemingway and Kennedy never
met, but the late president was clearly an
admirer. Kennedy wrote Hemingway for
permission to use his oft-quoted phrase
“grace under pressure” in the opening to
B
OSTON — Ernest Hemingway
penned 47 possible endings to “A
Farewell to Arms,” eight of which
are on display at a new exhibition on the
famed American writer at the John F. Ken-
nedy presidential library along with the
one that actually concluded the classic
World War I novel.
“If a person wants to make their mark
as a writer they have to work very hard,
and this exhibit really shows how hard
he worked,” said Patrick Hemingway,
the author’s only surviving child who on
toured the exhibition that opened Monday
Largest collection
Patrick Hemingway, son of Ernest Hemingway, stands
near a 1918 photograph of his father on crutches in Italy
while recovering from war wounds during World War I, left,
as he visits the exhibit: “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two
Wars” at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Mu-
seum in Boston.
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Hemingway was too ill to accept an invi-
tation to JFK’s January 1961 inauguration, his Cuban home, at the time of Fidel Cas-
tro’s revolution, leaving behind much of
and would commit suicide later that year.
his personal estate.
After his death, Kennedy, despite the
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20th century,” said Patrick Hemingway.
passions.
The story of how Hemingway’s papers
“He worked very hard in the morning
ended up at the Kennedy library carries but he never worked in the afternoon. He
overtones of modern-day developments had a great life,” Hemingway said of his
in the long and complex relationship father.
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