Addenda to the Ernest Hemingway Collection

Donors to the Ernest Hemingway Collection

MARIA RIVA

These documents were donated to the Kennedy Presidential Library in 2003 by Marlene Dietrich’s daughter Maria Riva, under the condition that the letters remain closed until 2007. The Library opened these letters in April of 2007.

Spanning from 1949 until 1959, the thirty pieces of correspondence written by Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich include seven hand signed letters, eighteen type signed letters, four telegrams, and a Christmas card.

In addition to the Hemingway letters, Mrs. Riva also donated drafts of three Hemingway manuscripts – Across the River and into the Trees, The Good Lion, and The Story of the Faithful Bull – as well as two Hemingway poems, First Poem to Mary in London and Poem to Mary. The draft of Across the River and into the Trees is a carbon typescript, 234 pages in length, in ink with pencil corrections. The draft includes deleted passages that do not appear in the published version, making this early draft significantly different from the published version.

Manuscripts:

Across the River and Into the Trees
6a. Carbon Typescript, #3. 
Mixed chapters from a second carbon of another early draft. 234 pages with ink manuscript and pencil corrections, with full passages that have been deleted form the published version. An early un-sanitized draft of this work. Differs significantly from other early drafts and the published version. 1, 1-117, 234pp.

The Faithful Bull
377b. Typescript.
Titled "The Story of the Faithful Bull."  First draft of an original typescript with original manuscript corrections and annotations in the hand of Ernest Hemingway. 4 pages. 78 lines. Original typed layout.

The Good Lion
432b. Carbon copy typescript.
"For Gherardo Scapinelli, from his / friend, Ernesto Hemingway." Signed in type "Ernest Hemingway 17/1/50, Venezia." Carbon copy from an early typescript draft. 6 pages. 106 lines. Original typed layout.

Poems:

First Poem to Mary in London
395a.1. Carbon Typescript.
Presentation copy: "Marlene from Papa." 3 pages. 72 lines. Original typed layout.

Poem to Mary
653a. Carbon Typescript.
Original typed layout. pp. 1-5. 5 pages. 223 lines.

Outgoing Correspondence: EH to Marlene Dietrich