HEMINGWAY ErnestABAA
ORIGINAL WESTERN UNION CABLEGRAMA
193712825An extraordinary one-of-a-kind historic collectible beautifully framed.<br />This is the ORIGINAL Western Union Cablegrama dated and sent from Havana Cuba on April 8 1937 to General Franco Salamanca Spain. It is sent from Elicio Arguelles head of Franco's Nationalist Committee in Cuba to Franco in Salamanca. The message translates into English as follows:<br />THE SPANISH NATIONALIST COMMITTEE SENDS TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AS MEDIATION FOR THOSE RECONQUERING SPANISH SOIL<br />What makes this unique piece truly extraordinary is that beneath the printed message written in ink in his instantly recognizable hand is a three-line notation:<br />"Salamanca" / Spain 1937 / Earnest Hemingway<br />The background is this: The sender Arguelles is the father of Hemingway's close friend of the same name Elicio Arguelles Jr. the fisherman in the famous photograph of himself standing beside Hemingway with the 900-pound Marlin they caught. As was customary at the time the sender also received a copy of the telegram. His copy went to the son who in turn gave it to Hemingway to sign.<br />This is an absolutely one-of-a-kind collectible of considerable historical significance. A major collectible.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Western Union books
Mystery Pier Books, inc · États-Unis18 500,00 $US≈ 15 652,85 €
