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110. Later this building was sold and Hemingway's possessions were moved to a room on the first floor
of the bar itself. According to James McLendon, after Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn were married by a justice of
the peace in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Hemingway "sheepishly presented himself at his house with Sloppy Joe Russell,
Joe's Negro bartender, Skinner, and a pickup truck, and hauled most of his belongings off to the back room of
Russell's bar.... " See Papa: Hemingway in Key West (Miami: Seemann 1972), p. 206. Toby Bruce has explicitly
rejected the account: "I did that. I hauled all the stuff." For confirmation of Toby Bruce's account, see EH to
Waldo Peirce. July 14, 1941. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
111. One particularly difficult item was the water-buffalo head which is now on the wall in
Hemingway's study at Finca Vigía. The head was too large to check as luggage on the airplane, and Toby Bruce was
obliged to buy a ticket for it and ride with it in the seat beside him.
112. Toby Bruce to D & JS. Tape, Feb. 19, 1979.
113. Toby Bruce to D & JS. Tape, Sept. 11 and 12, 1978, and Feb. 17, 1979.
114. Toby Bruce to D & JS. Tape, Sept. 17, 1979.
115. EH to Toby Bruce. Feb. 16, 1941.
116. EH to Toby Bruce. April 29, 1941.
117. Martha Gellhorn to Toby Bruce. June 1941.
118. EH to Toby Bruce. July 9, 1941.
119. The information in this paragraph is derived from the following taped interviews. Toby Bruce to
D & JS. Sept. 14, 1978; Lorine Thompson to D & JS. Sept. 12, 1978; Bernice Dickson to D & JS. Sept. 13, 1978;
Zulena Reckley to D & JS. Sept. 15, 1978. Patrick Hemingway has agreed that there is a strong possibility that
KWH was made as a realtor's inventory. Telephone conversation with JDB & JS. May 16, 1979. See also EH to
Patrick Hemingway. Nov. 26, 1952. Princeton.
120. EH to Toby Bruce. Oct. 15, 1952.
121. EH to Patrick Hemingway. April 10, 1953. Princeton.
122. How It Was, p. 322.
123. A.E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (New York: Random House, 1966), p. 156.
124. How It Was, p. 512. Also see McLendon, Papa: Hemingway in Key West, p. 211. McLendon's
assertion that Hemingway's effects "had gone untouched and virtually unnoticed in the barroom as the property
changed hands three times" is inaccurate on one count and questionable on another. Actually, Hemingway's
possessions were moved from a building behind Sloppy Joe's to a room behind the bar itself. Also, stories circulate
in Key West that various people went through the boxes in search of items that could be sold for a quick profit.
125. Toby Bruce to D & JS. Tape, Feb. 17, 1979.
126. Mary Hemingway to JDB and JS. Tape, Jan. 22, 1977.
127. How It Was, p. 240.
128. Hemingway read Spanish with ease. Mary Hemingway to JDB & JS. Tape, Jan. 22, 1977.
Also see Edwardo Zayas-Bazán, "His Cuban Friends Remember," F/H Annual, 1975, pp. 154-155. He read French
rather well. See Robert Asselineau, "Hemingway in Paris," F/H Annual, 1973, pp. 11-32. Asselineau rates
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