527. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Superb content "Ernest Hemingway", 1p. 4to., Finca Vigia, Cuba, June 3, 1952 to noted author and columnist Jim Bishop, then writing a biography of Hemingway's friend, writer-producer Mark Hellinger. Hemingway responds to Bishop's request to use a rather risqué 1947 letter Hemingway had written to Hellinger in an attempt to have him tone down the pace of his work (see previous lot). Remembering the letter, Hemingway replies in part: "...It is impossible to publish the letter I wrote Mark. It is too personal and was never meant to be published under any circumstances. It offends too many people. It is libelous and would do no good to Mark...I wrote it to try to cheer Mark up and get him to cut out over-work. I never wrote it to be published. To put it even plainer I expressly forbid its publication...I believe absolutely that personal letters should never be published and I certainly know that this one should not be...Mark and I joked tough about anything and about our friends. But it is one thing to make tough jokes in private...Mark is dead and what good does it do him...All it would do would make sensational and obscene copy for a book and do me and my family irreparable harm. So it's out...I only feel bad that Mark did not destroy it..." Margins a bit wrinkled, a chip at top blank margin, else very good. $2,000-3,000