Sold – Hemingway, Spying and Reporting in the Far East, Wants to Send a Book to a Friend
It was probably “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.
When the U.S. Treasury Department hired Ernest Hemingway as a spy in China in 1941, it awakened a new obsession in Americas most adventuresome author. The great man of action reveled in being a government operative, while his journalist wife championed the anti-Japanese resistance of Chiang Kai-shek. They set out for Hong...
When the U.S. Treasury Department hired Ernest Hemingway as a spy in China in 1941, it awakened a new obsession in Americas most adventuresome author. The great man of action reveled in being a government operative, while his journalist wife championed the anti-Japanese resistance of Chiang Kai-shek. They set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in April 1941, ostensively to report on the China-Japan war while honeymooning in the romantic Far East. What they found was a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of war, dictators, scoundrels, socialites, heroes and villains. And their trip proved to be the beginning of the end of their marriage.
Autograph Letter Signed from that epochal trip, Strand Hotel, Rangoon, n. d. but late April 1941, 2 pages, to a Mrs. Woodford, whom he intended to send a book: “Someone pinched that book I promised you and I have tried all over town to get one with no success. Have ordered one sent to you from Hong Kong and you should have it bynest CNAC plane. I hope we will see you and your husband again sometime – somewhere…”. – Hemingway travelled to Hongkong and the Far East from January to April 1941. The book in question is probably “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, published the previous year.
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