MARY (MRS. ERNEST) HEMINGWAY - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1968 CO-SIGNED BY: JOHN D. BUCHANAN - HFSID 169349

MARY HEMINGWAY, CO-SIGNED BY JOHN D. BUCHANAN
Hemingway handwrote and signed this note on a 1968 typed and signed letter that Buchanan had sent to her. He asked her who she thought contributed most to world peace, and she responded that she was too busy to respond.
Autograph note signed "John D. Buchanan" and "Mary Hemingway", bothin blue ink. With pencil notations on verso in unknown hand. 1 page, 8½x10¾, on Buchanan's personalized, textured stationery. Letter is dated Sept. 9, 1968, note is undated. Hemingway wrote her note on a letter addressed to her by Buchanan, in which he asked who she thought had "contributed most to a 'World of Peace' in the last 20 years," her reasons for her opinion and why she chose her profession. Hemingway replied: "Dear Mr. Buchanan - I am truly sorry, but I have so much work of my own to do, having just returned from a month in Russia, that I cannot take time to answer your questions. I have never made a speech either on Peace or Leadership." Mary Welsh (1908-1986, born in Minnesota), who had been a reporter for the Chicago Daily News (1932-1937) and the London Daily Express (1937-1940), met Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), in Paris when she was a correspondent for the London Bureau of Time, Inc. (1940-1945). Following her divorce from Australian journalist Noel Monks and his divorce from his third wife, the former Martha Gelhorn, the couple married in Cuba in 1946. Mary, who discovered her husband's body after his suicide in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961, later edited three of his works: A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970) and The Nick Adams Stories (1972). Her autobiography How It Was, which detailed her tumultuous life with Hemingway, was published in 1976. Lightly toned, stained and creased. Lightly nicked on right side. Folded twice and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.