According to the AP, the Finca Vigia Foundation is working with Cuba to preserve and digitize papers left by Papa in Cuba after his passing in 1961.
More than 2,000 items have been digitized and sent to the United States. This enhances the collection of 3,000 documents – including a manuscript with an alternate ending to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” as well as corrected proofs of “The Old Man and the Sea” – to include passports showing where the Nobel Prize-winning novelist traveled, as well as personal correspondence.
From the AP:
“…On Monday at the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Rep. James McGovern of Massachusetts and the Boston-based Finca Vigia Foundation announced that 2,000 digital copies of Hemingway papers and materials will be transferred to Boston’s John F. Kennedy Library…”
Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was a Nobel Prize laureate, author, and adventurer. His writing style continues to be a strong influence many writers, and the adventures he had through two World Wars, in Africa, as an ex-patriate, and as a journalist would become the stuff of legend. Continue reading