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29/09/2004
No publication for new Hemingway story
A recently discovered manuscript of a short story by Ernest Hemingway from 1924 is unlikely to ever be published.
The five-page carbon copy titled My Life in the Bull Ring with Donald Ogden Stewart was recovered from the papers of Stewart, a US author and friend of Hemingway who died in 1980.
The piece was inspired by an episode in the early 1920s when Stewart and Hemingway were visiting the annual bullfighting celebration in Pamplona, Spain which Hemingway would later turn into his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
To publish any new Hemingway work, permission must be granted by both the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and the Hemingway estate. The Foundation wanted to publish the story but the family decided against it
Stewart's son, Donald, had the document for more than 20 years before he discovered it amongst his father's papers.
He plans to put the manuscript up for auction at Christie's in New York on 16 December. Despite the veto on its publication, it is expected to fetch at least $18,000.
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