24 Comments

1. Dan Fararow

   I’m curious about the proceeds from “The Sun Also Rises”, which were given to Hadley. Is there any information available as to the amounts?
2. Allie Baker

   Hi Dan, I am curious too! I have not been able to find any information about that yet, but there are always new things being published. If I learn anything, more I’ll post it! Thanks, Allie
3. Jay Leicester

   I’m curious, has anyone read the Hemingway: Workbook, an ebook, offered by Amazon?
4. Allie Baker

   Hi Jay, I haven’t read it but it does look interesting. I think I’ll order it and give it a try. When I do, I’ll let you know! Thanks for writing, Allie
5. gary

   The pic of the Royal typewriter is the same model of typewriter that I have on display in my livingroom. It had been my father’s and it’s the same model that Papa used at one time to write on……from the 1940′s. Mine in Army Green.
6. Kathleen Dixon Donnelly

   Just discovered your blog via @ErikaRobuck on Twitter–brilliant! Can’t wait to dig down and read all the fascinating pieces. I researched and do presentations on the Americans in Paris in the 20s, as well as Maxwell Perkins [www.lulu.com/spotlight/suchfriends]. Will be lecturing about James Joyce in Paris–and Sylvia Beach–on the Semester at Sea Enrichment Voyage [http://enrichmentvoyages.org/] this May. Would love to meet up some day…
7. Allie Baker

   Kathleen, Thank you for writing and welcome to the Hemingway Project! I would love to know more about the writing you do, too — feel free to email me anytime at Allie.baker@ymail.com Best wishes, Allie
8. janice

   dear ms baker I have been studying about Hadley for many years. went to paris to study in 1974 because of ernest and hadley. they have been a part of my inner life for a long time. was wondering if you know the whereabouts of hadley’s summer cottage in annisquam, ma and whether it still exists. there is a picture of it in one of the biographies of hadley. recently visited cape ann to try and get a sense of where she summered as a young girl. thanks.
9. Allie Baker

   Hi Janice, Thanks so much for your comment. Like you, I have been interested in Hadley for a long time too, and find that she has influenced so much of my travel! I don’t know about the summer cottage, but I bet a call to the historical society in Annisquam would be helpful. I have been interested in Hadley’s New Hampshire and Florida locations as well. Let me know what you find out! All the best, Allie
10. Christine Whitehead

    Hello! I just discovered you recently too and LOVE what you are doing and writing. I do a light blog on Hemingway issues and related, and as I note on the blog, what isn’t related? Just wanted to say that hearing Hadley talk to Alice is such a treat. Thank you. Christine
11. Allie Baker

    Hi Christine, Thank you so much for taking the time to write, we have a lot in common, and I enjoy reading your blog too! What an afterlife Hemingway is enjoying, don’t you think?! All the best, Allie
12. melissa

    yes so many women, so little time, haha.
13. Kerrin Churchill

    Hi, I recently discovered your site and am enjoying it very much. I find it fascinating that so many of us are writers with lives so colored by EH. I’ve been a fan of his work for many years and I find myself returning again and again to study his prose with the hopes that I will become a better writer. Thanks so much for all of your efforts. Good luck in your endeavors and happy traveling.
14. Allie Baker

    Dear Kevin, Thank you for reading and commenting on The Hemingway Project. It is amazing how many lives as been shaped by how Hemingway lived, what he wrote, and where he traveled. His work really stands the test of time, and I think he was one of the first and best travel writers because of his keen eye for the detail and essence of a place. I’m so glad you found the site – I hope to post more this year, especially Hadley audio – Best wishes, Allie
15. Mary

    I was wondering what the relationship of Jack Hemingway and his mother, Hadley, was like in Jack’s adult years?
16. Jeff Ramsey

    This is a note to praise Allie for her devotion to the master that wielded a mighty pen. I recently had the great pleasure of listening on tape “The Sun Also Rides” which for me was a grand experience, even after having read all of Hemingway’s works it was like discovering a brand new novel.I am so impressed by this medium of literature I am now listening to “Death In The Afternoon” another masterpiece. Credit goes to Allie Baker for having the passion to follow the career and history of an author who,not only created unique adventures in words, but changed my life forever. In 1957 I was enthralled with the Fiesta Brava and that masterpiece was the very first novel that I read on the subject and re-read more than once. Credit to Allie for having the heart and the intellect to choose Ernest Hemingway as her iconic author of choice. With all sincerity it is an honor to know and call Allie my friend. Jeff Ramsey
17. Allie Baker

    Dear Jeff, Thank you for your kind words – your comment reminds me how much we have in common and how much we enjoy the same experiences and learning more about Hemingway, the bulls, and Spain. How do you like the audio book of DIA? I love that book too! It is an honor to call you a friend too Jeff, and I look forward to future fascinating conversations with you  I always learn from you! All the best, Allie
18. Allie Baker

    Hi Mary, Thank you for your comment and question. I think they were close, but Jack had an adventurous spirit like his father, and I’m sure Hadley would have liked to see more of him  There are several books that chronicle Bumby’s life and adventures after the Paris years, including his own memoir, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa. Carlos Baker and Michael Reynolds have both written very comprehensive biographies of Hemingway, which describe how the Hemingway family interacted throughout Hemingway’s life. All of them are great reads, and you won’t regret spending the time to learn more about these interesting people! All the best, Allie
19. Michelle Lenhart Varran

    A wonderful paruse (sp?)…over and over again. SUCH a fascinating man, such fascinating time; his wives and literature….always a new page to upturn somewhere…
20. Michelle Lenhart Varran

    Ah…almost forgot…THANK YOU for your wonderful site..so enjoying it!
21. Allie Baker

    Hi Michelle, thank you for reading the blog and especially writing to me! I agree that Hemingway had a fascinating life, and I can’t help re-reading my favorite novels every year. I am undergoing a long recovery from a serious illness, but soon I will be writing more – please keep checking back for fore articles and new posts soon! All the best, Allie
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23. jmh

    June 8. 2016 Dear Mr. Baker: This missive to you is very late and for that I apologize. I would like to thank you for sending me the account by Dru Tartière of The House Near Paris. Allie wrote to me that the Book was on its way, and she let me know that it was you that was sending it to me for her. I hardly know where nor how to begin my thanks to you for sending me the book. I finished reading it about a week ago, after reading myself to sleep with it almost every night. It was a very, very emotional and moving account of the period of the occupation. It was a sad one, as well. But as moving as it was, I am as certain as I can be that it had a significance that does not even begin to compare with your loss of Allie. I don’t think I could ever imagine how much the loss of Allie means to you. I doubt anyone could except you and your boys. She meant a lot to such a great number of people. And she did to me. It was largely due to Allie’s encouragement that I dug into the Blue Book, a book that I found in my father’s effects after he died and that he had kept “secret” from the time he received it until he died. I only discovered it when rummaging through his effects when I returned from France where I had been living. My little foray into the “writing world” had and has been confined mostly to news articles for The Sierra Club and other environmentally oriented groups. That all changed for me when I discovered the little “blue book of poems” and then especially when Allie began to take an interest in it and began to encourage me. I have had encouragement from a handful of people over the years, but no one gave me the encouragement and good advice that Allie gave me in the short, all too short, amount of time that I had with Allie. My thanks and condolences to you and your family, although I know I cannot imagine your and your family’s depth of loss. It may sound a little odd, but I send my best wishes to your family and thanks to you and for Allie who is, and will always be in my own and in so many people’s hearts.
24. Leigh Ann Wheeler

    I just found this website after returning from a trip to Paris, staying at the Paris Ritz, and becoming obsessed with Ernest and Hadley Hemingway as a result. I am so sorry to read this letter about Allie’s death. I have enjoyed reading the comments she posted in response to her “visitors” and I had hoped for a brief exchange with her as well. She has done all of us Hemingway fans an incredible favor by compiling this website. I am so sad that she is gone.