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“WE REALLY ARE IN NEED OF FOOD AS SWIFTLY AS POSSIBLE”
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GINSBERG, ALLEN. Autograph Postcard Signed, thrice, to author Sam P.
Edwards, desperately pleading that he quickly send the money he owes. The verso, an
image by Stournaras showing the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus on display at the
Archaeological Museum of Olympia. 1 page, 3
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2
x7
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4
inches; some loss to lower right edge
affecting only photograph, toning at side edges, four cancelled postage stamps showing the
bust of MohammedV of Morocco amounting to 50 francs at upper right recto.
Tangier, 18 July 1961
[800/1,200]
“
. . . I am absolutely broke, Orlovsky is sick in bed, & Corso starving in the room below me.
Burroughs has been sending money but he has run out. Please air-mail . . . the check . . . for
whatever you owe me.Also can you air-mail me a copy of 2d coming #2 which otherwise will
reach me by slow boat to China only. Don’t send the check via City Lights as we will all
starve to death before it gets forwarded. . . . I am writing this card to you because we really are
in need of food as swiftly as possible and hope you can send me the money right this minute.
Forgive my importunity but I receive very little money and what little I can earn I need.”
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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Two items:
The Old Man and the Sea.
Signed and
Inscribed * Autograph Note Signed. Each to journalist Peter Baker. The book, “To Peter
Baker / with sincere good / wishes,” on the front free endpaper. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth,
worn, spine markedly soiled; faint foxing to signature page; dust jacket separated at folds
laid in. Later edition.The note, “To Peter Baker / best luck / Ernest Hemingway / Finca
Vigia / 8/3/58,” on integral blank of Baker’s letter to him.
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page, 8vo; folds.
NewYork, 1955; inscription: Np, [1958]; [San Francisco de Paula], 3 August 1958
[600/900]
Baker’s letter to Hemingway: “If there had been more time for thought before I left NewYork I
would certainly have brought ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ with me in the hope of having you
sign it. But there wasn’t and I didn’t.
“
So, I hope you will be kind enough to autograph this scrap of paper so that I may stick it in
your book.” 1 page, 8vo,“Hotel Nacional de Cuba” stationery. Havana, 8 April 1958.
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