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` 42. T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," The Sacred Wood (London: Faber, 1972), p.
49. Although Hemingway's public comments on Eliot were scathing, the number of works by Eliot in his library is
striking.
43. Green Hills of Africa, pp. 21-22.
44. EH to Charles Scribner. Sept. 1, 1949. Princeton.
45. Wagner, Five Decades, pp. 24-25.
46. A Moveable Feast, pp. 25-26.
47. A Moveable Feast, p. 27.
48. EH to Charles Scribner. Sept. 8, 1949. Princeton.
49. Lorine Thompson to D & JS. Tape, Sept. 17, 1978.
50. Mary Hemingway to D & JS. Tape, Dec. 11, 1978.
51. Lloyd Arnold, Hemingway High on the Wild (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977), p. 7.
52. EH to Bernard Berenson. May 27, 1953. "i Tatti."
53. EH to Malcolm Cowley. Oct. 17, 1945. Kennedy Library. Morley Callaghan recognized this side
of Hemingway's personality: "He spoke so casually, but with such tremendous authority, that I suddenly couldn't
doubt him. Without knowing it, I was in the presence of that authority he evidently had to have to hold his life
together. He had to believe he knew, as I found out later, or he was lost. Whether it was in the field of
boxing, or soldiering, or bullfighting, or painting, he had to believe he was the one who knew." That Summer in
Paris, pp. 29-30.
54. We have benefited from John Blair Hemstock's "Hemingway's Awareness of Other Writers,"
unpublished M.A. thesis, McMaster University, 1979. See also Leicester Hemingway, "Ernest Hemingway's
Boyhood Reading," Mark Twain Journal 12 (Winter 1964): 4-5.
55. Wagner, Five Decades, p. 34.
56. Green Hills of Africa, p. 22.
57. Green Hills of Africa, p. 22.
58. Esquire 3 (Feb. 1935): 21.
59. "Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter," Esquire 4 (Oct. 1935): 174A-174B. These two
articles with many of Hemingway's other journalistic pieces are conveniently available in By-Line: Ernest
Hemingway, edited by William White (New York: Scribner, 1967).
60. See Wagner, Five Decades, p. 23. Plimpton records: "Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader,
Ben Ames Williams' House Divided, The Partisan Reader, Charles A. Beard's The Republic, Tarlé's Napoleon's
Invasion of Russia, How Young You Look by one Peggy Wood, Alden Brook's Shakespeare [sic] and the Dyer's
Hand, Baldwin's African Hunting, T.S. Eliot's Collected Poems, and two books on General Custer's fall at the battle
of the Little Big Horn."
61. Plimpton in Five Decades, p. 29. The "good" Kipling may have been defined in a letter to a young
author who had asked a similar question of Hemingway in 1953. Hemingway advised the young writer to read
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