The Friends of the Hemingway Collection was founded in 1990 by Patrick Hemingway, son of the Nobel-prize winning author, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to provide financial support and resources to preserve and make accessible the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
The Ernest Hemingway Collection contains ninety percent of existing Hemingway manuscript materials, as well as a wealth of letters, scrapbooks, and other material spanning the author’s life and career.
Without the private and generous support of friends and admirers of Ernest Hemingway, the Kennedy Presidential Library would be unable to pay for the critical preservation work that is needed to protect and safeguard this historical and cultural treasure.
Please consider joining now. Your donation and membership will help preserve this priceless collection, purchase new materials, and support public programming that examines American literature and the creative process of writing as personified by Hemingway’s legendary career.