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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Lanham, C. T. (Charles Trueman), 1902-
- Title:
- C. T. Lanham Papers on Ernest Hemingway
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r781wg03p
- Dates:
- 1945-1978
- Size:
- 3 boxes and 1.25 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-3
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Charles Trueman Lanham was a life soldier who retired as a general and was also friends with Hemingway. The papers consist of Xerox copies of correspondence between Lanham and Hemingway, a chronology of his time in World War II, correspondence about Hemingway, and a draft of Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists, for the most part, of Xerox copies of correspondence between General Lanham and Ernest Hemingway, a chronology by Lanham of the years (1944-1945) when Hemingway was attached to his unit in Europe during World War II as a war correspondent, and correspondence between Lanham, Mary Hemingway, and others about Hemingway. Also included in the collection are correspondence between Carlos Baker and Lanham and a draft of Chapter 9 of Baker's biography Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969) containing Lanham's notes.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Lanham, C. T. (Charles Trueman), 1902-
C.T. Lanham was a life soldier who retired as a general. In 1944, during World War II, his troops were among the first to break out from Normandy, enter Paris, and attack the Siegfried Line in Germany. He became friends with Hemingway and corresponded with him for the next 17 years. After the war, he was chief of troop information and education; post-retirement he was associate editor of Infantry Journal.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of General C.T. Lanham and Mrs. C.T. Lanham.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
C. T. Lanham Papers on Ernest Hemingway; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r781wg03p
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-3
Find More
- Bibliography
Publication by Carlos Baker: Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969)
- Subject Terms:
- Novelists, American -- 20th century.
War correspondents -- United States -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
Photographic prints - Names:
- Baker, Carlos, 1909-1987
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986
