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Inventory of the Clara G. Spiegel-Ernest Hemingway Family Papers, 1939-1988
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Alison Hinderliter, 2008. ©2008. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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Creator |
Spiegel, Clara Gatzert, 1904-1997 |
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Title |
Clara G. Spiegel-Ernest Hemingway Family Papers |
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Dates |
1939-1988 |
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Extent |
.5 cubic ft. (1 box) |
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Abstract |
Letters and cards written to author Clara G. Spiegel from Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Mary Welsh Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway, plus one letter from game ranger Denis Zaphiro. Also, a small photograph of Hemingway and a typescript of a friend’s eulogy written by Hemingway in 1939. |
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Language |
Materials are in English. |
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Repository |
Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
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Collection Call Number |
Midwest MS Spiegel-Hemingway C |
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Collection Stack Location |
3a 42 4 |
Clara G. Spiegel-Ernest Hemingway Family Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Gift, Andrew G. Spiegel, 2007.
Virginia Hay Smith, 2008.
The Clara G. Spiegel-Ernest Hemingway Family Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
The Clara G. Spiegel-Ernest Hemingway Family Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
Author, world-traveller and big game hunter.
Clara Gatzert Spiegel (1904-1997) was an author, big game hunter and world-traveler, who left Chicago in the 1940s to settle in Ketchum, Idaho, near one of the homes of Ernest Hemingway. Her first and only husband and the father of her two sons was Fredrick Spiegel of Chicago, from whom she was divorced in the late forties. Frederick Spiegel had been in the Italian ambulance corps in 1918 with Ernest Hemingway, and both he and Clara remained friends with Hemingway all his life.
Clara Spiegel had four novels jointly published with Jane Mayer under the collaborative name of Clare Jaynes. She traveled widely, writing about and photographing her big game hunts and other trips, and she also entertained extensively in her Ketchum home. After Ernest Hemingway’s death in 1961, she and Mary Hemingway remained friends.
Clara G. Spiegel died in 1997.
Correspondence to Clara G. Spiegel consisting of nine letters from Martha Gellhorn, 1940-1944; four letters from Ernest Hemingway, 1939-1954; one letter and three cards from Ernest and Mary Welsh Hemingway, 1954 and undated; eleven letters from Mary Welsh Hemingway, 1948-1961; eleven letters from Patrick Hemingway, 1957-1962; and one letter from Denis Zaphiro, July, 1988. Gellhorn’s letters concern her own writing, travels, the war, life with Hemingway and his sons, and Spiegel’s publishing, among other things. In July of 1942 Gellhorn urges Spiegel to help a young Nelson Algren, who is struggling in Chicago. Ernest Hemingway’s letters are primarily about the progress of his writing and advice to Spiegel about hers. Mary Hemingway’s letters also have comments about Spiegel’s writing, but are mostly concerned with her husband’s work, their family and social life, descriptions of their homes, travels and hunting trips. Patrick Hemingway, a “professional hunter and safari outfitter”, corresponded with Spiegel about the hunting trips she took under his guidance, while the letter from game hunter Denis Zaphiro is personal in content. Also in the collection is a small undated color photograph of Hemingway, and a typescript of a eulogy he wrote for a Ketchum friend.
The letters are arranged by name of writer. Photocopies of the Martha Gellhorn, Ernest and Mary Welsh Hemingway letters are at the end of collection for use in photocopy requests.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Container List |
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, Jan. 29, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, April 15, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, May 17, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, May 30, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, Sept. 1, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, Oct. 23, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, Nov. 10, 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, July 8, 1942 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence: Gellhorn, Martha, Mar. 4, 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Ernest, Dec. 9, 1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Ernest, Mar. 13, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Ernest, Aug. 23, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Ernest, Feb. 8, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Ernest and Mary Welsh, Nov. 6, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Ernest and Mary Welsh, undated cards | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Jan. 31, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Feb. 12, 1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Jul. 23, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Aug. 22, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Nov. 3, 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Apr.19, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Aug. 18, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Oct. 24, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, Feb. 29, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, May 17, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Mary Welsh, May 8, 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Oct. 16, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Nov. 1, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Apr. 23, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Aug. 3, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Oct. 5, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Oct. 11, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Nov. 8, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, May 24, 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Nov. 11, 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Feb. 3, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Correspondence: Hemingway, Patrick, Mar. 30, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Correspondence: Zaphiro, Denis, Jul. 10, 1988 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Miscellaneous: Hemingway, Ernest - Funeral address for Gene Van Guilder, Ketchum, Idaho (typescript), 1939 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Miscellaneous: Photograph of Ernest Hemingway and unidentified man, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Miscellaneous: Photocopies of Martha Gellhorn letters to Clara G. Spiegel, 1940-1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Miscellaneous: Photocopies of Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh Hemingway letters to Clara G. Spiegel, 1939-1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Miscellaneous: Photocopies of Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh Hemingway letters to Clara G. Spiegel, 1939-1954 | |||||||||
For more material related to Ernest Hemingway and the Spiegel family, see the Frederick W. Spiegel - Ernest Hemingway papers, 1918-1973.