Biographers later speculated that the injuries he sustained contributed to his erratic behavior in his final years and his death by suicide.
Hemingway, whose iconic works were informed by his grueling, firsthand experiences of conflict as a Red Cross ambulance driver and a war correspondent, was no stranger to crisis. But he faced his greatest jeopardy on a hapless sightseeing trip. Hemingway had hired a small Cessna plane in 1954 for a sightseeing tour on a trip with his last wife, Mary Welsh, author Andrew Farah wrote in the 2017 book “Hemingway’s Brain.
Welsh broke two ribs in the crash and Hemingway sprained his shoulder, Farah wrote, but they were able to flag down a passing boat the next morning and find passage to a nearby town. There, Hemingway and Welsh boarded a second plane to leave Uganda – and, incredibly, suffered their second crash. Shortly after the plane took off from a rocky field, it fell back to Earth and burst into flames.
Hemingway’s letter, which the auction house said was written in April 1954 from a Venice hotel, appeared to show the writer in good spirits as he recovered from his injuries. He spent much of the correspondence to his lawyer discussing personal business, including payments to a collection agency regarding a purchase of hunting rifles.
“Mary had a big shock and her memory not too hot yet and it will take quite a time to sort things out,” he added.Article content
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