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Images are from Martha Gellhorn’s personal papers at Boston University (MGPP), Ernest Hemingway’s personal papers at JFK Library (EHPP), and Princeton University (Princeton)

1930 envelope of letter to Cam Becket, lifelong friend (MGPP)

May 1931 letter to Cam Becket from which the book’s title is taken (MGPP)

May 1931 letter to Cam Becket from which the book’s title is taken (MGPP)

January 14, 1937 letter to Pauline Pfeiffer (Princeton)

June 1937, Writer’s Congress, Carnegie Hall, NYC, Martha wearing a silver fox fur she bought in Madrid (EHPP)

Circa 1939, standing poolside at the Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba (EHPP)

1940 passport used for trip to China (MGPP)

Circa 1940, photo by Lloyd Arnold (EHPP)

Circa 1940, on Leicester Hemingway’s sailboat, Havana Harbour (EHPP)

Spring 1941, al fresco with Madame Chiang (MGPP)

May 1941, excerpted letter from Ernest Hemingway (EHPP)

1944, on the Italian front, in uniform (MGPP)

1945 envelope, cover art by Wyncie King (MGPP)

War correspondent pins (Princeton)

About Janet

Janet Somerville taught literature for twenty years in Toronto. She spent the past three years wholly immersed in Martha Gellhorn’s life and words. more

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February 18, 2025

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February 18, 2025

#OnThisDay in 1934, writer, librarian, feminist and equal rights activist Audre Lorde was born in New York City to immigrants from Grenada. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/3I1t9EH #BlackHistoryMonth

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February 18, 2025

#OtD 18 Feb 1904 sculptor, teacher and anti-fascist Felicia Browne was born. Travelling to Spain to fight fascism, she tragically became the first British volunteer be killed in the civil war during a mission to blow up a fascist munitions train https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8965/felicia-browne-born

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February 18, 2025

@SecDuffy At least one of the claims here (concerning telework rates) is demonstrably false, so forgive us for seeking more specifics on the rest. Is the Secretary claiming, and will he show, that none of the hundreds of FAA personnel he just fired were important to safety?

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February 18, 2025

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine..."

#PuckAndMartha #TheDream #Shakespeare

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February 18, 2025

"All right, then, I'll go to hell."

#OTD in the #History of #Literature 18 February 1885, #MarkTwain's masterpiece THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN was published by Charles L. Webster And Company in 🇺🇸

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Cambridge University Library @theul ·

February 18, 2025

#OnThisDay in 1516, Mary I was born. Was she really the bloodthirsty queen of popular myth?

@Lucy_Worsley recently visited the UL to consult our copy of “Historia ecclesiastica” by Pedro de Ribadeneyra, a Spanish priest who met Mary and gives a different account.

@theULSpecColl

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