HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed ("Ernest Hemingway"), unsent or a retained draft, TO HIS ENGLISH PUBLISHER JONATHAN CAPE ("Dear Cape"), n.p., n.d. [probably France/Spain, June/July 1929]. 2 pages, 4to, in pencil on both sides of a white sheet with a few deletions by Hemingway, a couple of tiny stains, usual fold creases ; in very good condition. NEGOTIATING TERMS FOR THE ENGLISH EDITION OF "A FAREWELL TO ARMS" Hemingway writes to his English publisher regarding the advance for (most probably) the English edition of A Farewell to Arms . The novel was published in America by Scribner's on 27 September 1929, and in England by Cape on 11 November of that year. "Thanks very much for sending the contract. It all seems satisfactory except that I am afraid I must get £200 advance on the novel -- £100 all right on the short stories [referring to the English Men Without Women , issued in April 1928?]. I remember you offered £150 on the short stories and being sure they would not sell I said £100 was enough. I know of course that my stuff has not sold as yet in England but I am equally sure that it will sooner or later and will make plenty of money for whoever has it. This is a long novel that I've worked a year and a half on plus another six months going over proof [serialization began in Scribner's Magazine in May 1929] and I do not think £200 is an exaggerated advance to ask. If you know any way that this £200 can be kept from being reduced to £160 by income tax I would be glad to know it. I paid some $500 tax in the states and have just been billed for $100 more tax by the French and as I have a wife, two children, my mother, two sisters, and a brother at school dependent on me I do not think cheerfully of the idea of paying an additional $200 in tax in England when I have no earned income but only advances which I owe to your goodself. If you choose to make the advance £200 I will write that in ink in place of £150 in the contract, initial it and sign it. If you don't it is quite all right and will return the contract blank..."
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Autograph letter signed ("Ernest Hemingway"), unsent or a retained draft, TO HIS ENGLISH PUBLISHER JONATHAN CAPE ("Dear Cape"), n.p., n.d. [probably France/Spain, June/July 1929]. 2 pages, 4to, in pencil on both sides of a white sheet with a few deletions by Hemingway, a couple of tiny stains, usual fold creases ; in very good condition. NEGOTIATING TERMS FOR THE ENGLISH EDITION OF "A FAREWELL TO ARMS" Hemingway writes to his English publisher regarding the advance for (most probably) the English edition of A Farewell to Arms . The novel was published in America by Scribner's on 27 September 1929, and in England by Cape on 11 November of that year. "Thanks very much for sending the contract. It all seems satisfactory except that I am afraid I must get £200 advance on the novel -- £100 all right on the short stories [referring to the English Men Without Women , issued in April 1928?]. I remember you offered £150 on the short stories and being sure they would not sell I said £100 was enough. I know of course that my stuff has not sold as yet in England but I am equally sure that it will sooner or later and will make plenty of money for whoever has it. This is a long novel that I've worked a year and a half on plus another six months going over proof [serialization began in Scribner's Magazine in May 1929] and I do not think £200 is an exaggerated advance to ask. If you know any way that this £200 can be kept from being reduced to £160 by income tax I would be glad to know it. I paid some $500 tax in the states and have just been billed for $100 more tax by the French and as I have a wife, two children, my mother, two sisters, and a brother at school dependent on me I do not think cheerfully of the idea of paying an additional $200 in tax in England when I have no earned income but only advances which I owe to your goodself. If you choose to make the advance £200 I will write that in ink in place of £150 in the contract, initial it and sign it. If you don't it is quite all right and will return the contract blank..."
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