In Motion: University Libraries acquire Hemingway Letters

In Motion: University Libraries acquire Hemingway Letters

"Hemingway Writing Home: Letters to His Family 1917-1957" is on display through May 30 in the exhibits hall of the Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, University Park. The exhibit presents family photographs and a selection of heretofore-unseen letters, amassed by his sister Madelaine "Sunny" Hemingway Mainland and passed on to her son, Ernest Hemingway Mainland. This collection of Ernest Hemingway correspondence is the last sizeable and significant known collection of the famed novelist's letters still in private hands. Acquired by Penn State University Libraries from Hemingway's nephew Mainland, the set includes more than 100 unpublished letters, telegrams and notes from Hemingway to his family between 1917 and 1957.