The novelist and his wife survived successive crashes in Uganda in 1954. In the letter, Hemingway also describes shooting his first lion in Kenya with an old gun 'held together with tape.'
Ernest Hemingway, novelist, is seen at his country home in San Francisco de Paula near Havana, Cuba on Aug. 21, 1950.Ernest Hemingway, novelist, is seen at his country home in San Francisco de Paula near Havana, Cuba on Aug. 21, 1950.A few months after Ernest Hemingway and his wife survived two plane crashes in two days while on safari in Africa, he wrote a letter to his lawyer full of grisly details about his injuries — with the bravado that marked both his novels and his life.
that Mary was limping and Hemingway's head and arm were bandaged. But Hemingway was"carrying a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin" and"appeared to be in high spirits as he shrugged off the crashes."He sprinkles the details of his injuries amid more urgent seeming matters, asking his lawyer to pay a bill he never received, and said he hoped"the dept or Bureau will understand" that his receipts for the trip had burned in the second crash.
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