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ALS, one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.75, July 23, 1936. Handwritten letter to Abner Green, replying to a letter of July 9th, which forwarded an article on American principles and complimented Hemingway's story 'The Horns of the Bull.' Hemingway writes, in full: "Just received your letter of July 9. Enclosing DeCasseres item and your comments on Esquire story and piece. Listen chicken shit take it easy. Anything not down your alley stinks. As for the item on the paintings 'manageing to pick the Hemingway name out of the dirt somewhat.' Get this. The only time the H. name is in the dirt is when little pricks like you and your pals put it there. Only it doesn't stay there. You stay there. Now you can take it as well as dish it out: So buck up McWalsey and don't think you've found a formula for getting action out of me by panning me. Certainly look forward to getting out of the goddamned tropics for a while, though imagine will be a warm ride west. Listen Abnericious your admiration for my occasional good writings is too much of a load for me to carry. I'm going to have to purify the party. Make up your mind definitely that I can't write, don't want to write and am a complete shit and be comfortable with your friends again. That's where you belong. Don't hold out against it. It's not worth the effort.
In the meantime I'll do what I can about the Right of azylum but don't be snotty to me unless you could back it up to my face. Anybody is a horse's ass to ans[wer] any kind of a letter but trying to keep a disappointed punk of an admirer from his [na]tural disappointment is no way to pass over time. Get on the band wagon Abner. Don't try to hold out. You'll be much happier with the boys." Handsomely mounted, matted, and framed with a portrait of Hemingway to an overall size of 23.5 x 19.75; a window in the backing allows the reverse to be viewed. In very good to fine condition, with areas of paper loss affecting a few words of text. Accompanied by Green's retained carbon copy of his letter to Hemingway.
Correspondence between Ernest Hemingway and the leftist activist and writer Abner Green began in December 1935 after Green—writing under the pen name Paul Harris—published an open letter to Hemingway in The American Criteria. In the piece, Green criticized Hemingway’s contributions to Esquire, urging the celebrated author to devote his public voice to more consequential political and humanitarian causes. The letter was subsequently distributed by the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, an advocacy group working to defend immigrants threatened with deportation. Hemingway’s engagement with the appeal led to a friendly relationship with Green, and he ultimately agreed to serve as Co-Chairman of the Committee of Sponsors supporting the organization.
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