Ernest Hemingway Documents and Tax-related Papers 1940-1945

Summary

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Overview

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Abstract

Contains material relating to Hemingway's income tax preparations for the years 1940-1945.

Description

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Description

The collection contains material relating to Hemingway's income tax preparations for the years 1940-1945, including two notarized documents concerning his travel to the Orient and boat depreciation and ten pages of his notes and calculations on income, exemptions, expenses, deductions, and contributions. An additional file of approximately 600 items of correspondence, tax returns, and legal documents consists primarily of correspondence between Hemingway's attorneys, Maurice Speiser and G. Campbell Becket, and the Treasury Dept. concerning their request that Hemingway not be required to make one large payment to the IRS for For Whom the Bell Tolls but, rather, that he be able to average his income over a 5-year period. This case resulted in an amendment to the tax laws for the benefit of future writers and artists.

Collection Creator Biography

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, storywriter, and journalist from Oak Park, Illinois. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Collection History

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Acquisition

Purchased from Bev Chaney Jr. (AM88-19).

Processing Information

Folder Inventory added by Jameson Creager (2015) in 2012.

Access and Use

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Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research use. Researchers may be required to use surrogates of collection items stored in special vault facilities.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Preferred Citation

Ernest Hemingway Documents and Tax-related Papers; 1940-1945, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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Topics

• American literature

Subject Terms

• Authors, American
• Becket, G. Campbell
• Income averaging
• Income tax
• Law and legislation
• Lawyers
• Speiser, Maurice
• Taxation

Genre Terms

• Correspondence
• Legal correspondence
• Legal documents
• Novelists, American
• Tax returns
• United States

Contents and Arrangement

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	Title	Date	Container
	Hemingway Letters	1941-1943	Box 1, Folder 1
	Tax forms, misc. documents	1940-1955	Box 1, Folder 2
	Hemingway Tax Related Documents and Calculations	1940-1944	Box 1, Folder 3
	Correspondence	1941-1945	Box 1, Folder 4-8