What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago
By Robert K. Elder
The collection of items stored in Key West, now part of a new archive at Penn State, includes four unpublished short stories, manuscript drafts and boxes of personal belongings.
The most haunting part of the archive comes from a notebook dated March 6, 1926.
"When I feel bad, I like to think about death and the different ways of dying, and I think probably the best way, if you couldn't arrange to die in your sleep, would be to go out of bed at night," Hemingway wrote. then 26 and only seven months after the publication of his successful novel "The Sun Also Rises." While scholar Carlos Baker…
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