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Ernest Hemingway’s Macho Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mamas and Papas

The cocky author wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald from Spain in 1925, and outlined his version of heaven—including a house where The New Republic would be used for toilet paper.

Ernest Hemingway

Updated Jul. 15, 2019 5:58PM ET / Published Oct. 06, 2013 5:45AM ET 
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To F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1 July [1925]

Burguete, NavarraJuly 1—

Dear Scott—

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