![]() ![]() Several items in the collection also were included in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s three-part documentary about the author. She leads a team of scholars in producing a comprehensive scholarly edition of Hemingway’s letters, now preparing the sixth of a planned 17 volumes. Sandra Spanier, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Women’s Studies and general editor of the Hemingway Letters Project, became familiar with the collection’s contents several years ago and persuaded Dink Bruce that it ought to come to the University Libraries. The New York Times first wrote about the collection in 2017. “Dink” Bruce, who stored it in ammo cans and plastic bins on the family’s Key West property. The collection passed to their son, Benjamin C. She enlisted the help of the Bruces, who had remained Hemingway’s lifelong Key West friends, to help sort through the towering piles of his papers, including the items she gave them in gratitude, representing this collection. The collection, which has now been described in detail in the University Libraries online catalog, holds several remarkable discoveries, as noted in exclusive articles in The New York Times, from his first story written in childhood to a “three-page meditation on death and suicide - 35 years before he took his own life.”Īfter Hemingway’s death in 1961, his widow, Mary Hemingway, was called to retrieve the materials stored since 1939 at Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, Fla., one of Hemingway’s favorite hangouts in the 1930s. Kennedy Library in Boston and Princeton University Library. The collection, which was acquired in October 2021 through donor support, positions Penn State in the top tier of repositories of Ernest Hemingway scholarly material, along with the John F. “The Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway is a significant addition to our holdings in the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State University Libraries, strengthening our reputation for fostering research at all levels.” Chadwell, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications. “The acquisition of this archive of some of Hemingway’s unpublished stories, manuscript drafts and correspondence will provide a wealth of new material for studying a pre-eminent writer,” said Faye A. Now housed in the University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections Library, the collection includes unpublished writing, manuscripts, handwritten letters and notes, more than 1,000 photos, other documents and memorabilia and provides new insight into the author’s writing process and his personal life from childhood onward. ![]() Penn State University Libraries has expanded its robust scholarly research potential of one of America’s foremost 20th-century writers through the acquisition of the Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway. ![]()
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