author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and other classic novels. Fine content A.L.S. "Ernest Hemingway" 2pp. 4to., Ketchum, Mar. 13, 1959, to James Starnes, a 16-year-old schoolboy who wrote to his favorite author and began a correspondence. In part: "...Sure was glad to hear from you again. We are peeling out of here to drive to Key West to go home to Cuba and I wished to write you before we left. Once we start moving it is hard for me to write letters. Hope you're doing good (that should be well) in school and everything goes good with you. We had a good fall and winter & worked hard on my book and had fine shooting too & still eating mallard ducks, pheasant, partridges out of the deep freeze. Also venison. It hasn't been a hard winter here and the game has wintered well...Thanks for sending the paper. The editor sounds like the type of man I could get along with O.K. Jim if you don't hear from me don't think I have forgotten my friend...Best luck to you and your folks and my regards to Miss Simms. I can't help her about the lazy children because that was what I was and the best part about school was vacation when we didn't have to wear shoes...". Boldly written in Hemingway's inimitable hand, just two years before his tragic, self-inflicted death in Ketchum. Fine.