Dear Mr. Carreño,
I am writing on behalf of the Hemingway Letters Project, housed at the Pennsylvania State University. We are publishing the Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway, and in preparing the annotations that accompany the letters we run into a number of questions that require very specialized information. I hope that you can help me out on some O’Hara questions.
It happens that on 20 October 1939, Hemingway wrote a letter to O’Hara, mentioning several details which I’ve been unable to decipher. Perhaps you can help me with this one:
Hemingway writes: “Remember you are the same O’Hara that jumped off Brooklyn bridge that time and found he could fly just like in a dream.”
Our researchers have gone through O’Hara’s works to find a scene describing such an event, and have looked in O’Hara biographies to see if this refers to a real life event. They have come up empty-handed.
Do you have any ideas what Hemingway might be referring to here? Can you think of someone else I might ask?
Thank you,
Miriam B. Mandel
Department of English Literature and American Studies
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv, Israel
Editor, Hemingway Letters Project
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