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John de Groot Papers and Collection on Ernest Hemingway, 1942-2006

Overview of the Collection

Title
John de Groot Papers and Collection on Ernest Hemingway
Dates
1942-2006 (inclusive)
Quantity
4 linear feet, (6 boxes)
Collection Number
MSS 087
Summary
The John de Groot Papers and Collection on Ernest Hemingway primarily consist of research materials collected by playwright and journalist John de Groot for his 1988 play about Hemingway, Papa. The collection dates from 1942-2006 and contains materials both by and about Hemingway including books, magazines, LPs, audio cassettes, memorabilia, and copies of United States government correspondence and internal FBI memoranda relating to Ernest Hemingway.
Repository
Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive
Boise ID
83725
Telephone: 2084263990
archives@boisestate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is available for research.

Languages
Some brochures and ephemera are in Spanish or French. Cassette tapes are labeled in Spanish but contents are in English.
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Biographical Note

John de Groot is a playwright and journalist based in Florida. His one-man play about Ernest Hemingway, Papa, premiered in 1988 at Boise State University starring George Peppard. The production went on to Cleveland, Atlanta, and Chicago, and was subsequently produced in New York in 1996 and Los Angeles in 2005. James Earl Jones read the script as part of Hemingway's 100th birthday celebration at the Smithsonian.

De Groot's 5-year research process resulted in a collection of hundreds of books and periodicals by and about Hemingway, and included travel throughout the world to Hemingway's homes and favorite vacation spots including the Bahamas, Key West, Cuba, and Ketchum, Idaho.

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Content Description

The John de Groot Papers and Collection on Ernest Hemingway primarily consist of research materials collected by playwright and journalist John de Groot for his 1988 play about Hemingway, Papa. The collection dates from 1942-2006 and contains materials both by and about Hemingway including books, magazines, LPs, audio cassettes, and memorabilia.

Of particular interest are copies of United States government correspondence and internal FBI memoranda relating to Ernest Hemingway, obtained by John de Groot under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. The files focus on Hemingway's activities in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, alleged Communist contacts, and his intelligence work in Cuba during World War II. Many documents have been censored.

The collection includes a manuscript of de Groot's play, Dark Ages, and contains an audio recording of de Groot's comments on items from his collection featured in the exhibit "A Hemingway Geography" at Boise State in 1988.

While the collection is predominantly in English, some materials are in Spanish and French.

Forms part of the Idaho Writers Archive.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[item description], John de Groot Papers and Collection on Ernest Hemingway, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Administrative Information

Location of Originals

FBI and US government correspondence originals located in File 64-23312, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington D.C. (Copies were obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and are redacted.)

Acquisition Information

1988 and 1989 gifts of John de Groot.

Separated Materials

Approximately 130 books are cataloged in Boise State University's online catalog.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Research Files and Memorabilia

  • Magazines and Journals

    • Description: American Heritage, Carlos Baker, "Slopes of Kilimanjaro"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: American Heritage, Cecil Eby, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: American, Alfred Kazin, "Hemingway and Fitgerald: The Cost of Being American"
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: American Heritage, S.L.A Marshall, "How Papa Liberated Paris"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Art in America, Henry Strater, "Portrait: Hemingway"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Atlanta Journal, Rod Cockshutt; Michael Carlton, "Hemingway Haunts"
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Avon Annual, Ernest Hemingway, "Capital of the World"
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Avon Annual, Ernest Hemingway, "Big Two Hearted River; Part 1"
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Bohemia, Norberto Fuentes, "Hemingway Nos Ha Acompando en Momentos Cruciales"
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Book Digest, Carlos Baker, "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961"
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Christianity Today, Daniel Pawley, "Ernest Hemingway: Tragedy of an Evangelical Family"
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Clockwatch Review, assorted articles
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Esquire, Ernest Hemingway, "Snows of Kilimanjaro"
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Esquire, Robert Emmett Ginna, "Life in the Afternoon"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Esquire, Ernest Hemingway, "Bimini"
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Floriday Keys Magazine, Jim Reisler, "Ernest Hemingway's Cuba"
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Granata: In Trouble Again, A Special Issue of Travel Writing, Martha Gellhorn, "Cuba Revisited"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Holiday, Kenneth Tynan, "Visit to Havana"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Horizon, George Plimpton, "Interview with Ernest Hemingway"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Horizon, Malcolm Cowley, "Hemingway: The Image and the Shadow"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Kansas City Star, Brian Burnes, "Hemingway's Kansas City"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Kenyon Review, Philip Young, "Hemingway and Me"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" (Story and Movie Review)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, Malcolm Cowley, "Portrait of Mister Papa"
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, Ernest Hemingway, "Tribute to Mama from Papa Hemingway"
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, "'Papa' Pops Up Again"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, "Old Man Lands Biggest Catch"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, "Hemingway: Driving Force of a Great Artist"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, Mary Hemingway, "Sentimental Safari"
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life, Ernest Hemingway, "The Dangerous Summer, Part 1"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Life (excerpts), Ernest Hemingway, "The Dangerous Summer, Parts 1-3
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Look, Ernest Hemingway, "Safari"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Look, Ernest Hemingway, "The Christmas Gift, Part II"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 3
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Look, Mary Hemingway, "Hemingway: A Personal Story"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Mainliner, Raymond Shourds, "Hemingway's Key West Home"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Marlin, Robert L. Patroni, "The Man Who Mastered Words and Marlin"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: The New York Times Magazine, Peter Griffin, "Young Hemingway: Three Unpublished Stories"
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Pageant, Mark Savage, "Ernest Hemingway--Wars, Women, Wine, Words"
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Playboy, Ernest Hemingway, "Ernest Speaks His Mind"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Playboy, Earnest Hemingway, "Man's Credo" and Evgeny Evtushenko
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Playboy, Ernest Hemingway, "Advice to a Young Man"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Playboy, Patrick Hemingway, "My Papa, Papa"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Saturday Evening Post, A.E. Hotchner, "Papa Hemingway, Part 1 of 3"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Saturday Evening Post, A.E. Hotchner, "Papa Hemingway, Part 2 of 3"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Saturday Review, Carlos Baker, "Mary Hemingway's Years with Ernest," (Book Review, How it Was by Mary Welsh Hemingway)
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Saturday Review, Carlos Baker, "The Son Also...", (Book Review, Papa: A Personal Memoir by Gregory H. Hemingway)
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 5
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Soviet Life, Boris Gilenson, "Hemingway Our Living Contemporary"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Sports Illustrated, "Sportsman: Ernest Hemingway"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Sports Illustrated, John Blaishell, "Bullfight's Greatest Rivalry"
      Dates: 1959 August
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Sports Illustrated, Mary Hemingway, "Holiday for a Wound Toredo"
      Dates: 1959 August
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Sports Illustrated, Ernest Hemingway, "Matter of Wind"
      Dates: 1959 August
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Sports Illustrated, Robert Cantwell, "River That Will Flow Forever"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Sports Illustrated, Ernest Hemingway, "African Betrayal"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: This Week Magazine, A. E. Hotchner, "Hemingway Talks to American Youth"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Time, "An American Storyteller"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Wilson Quarterly, Frank McConnell, "Hemingway: Stalking Papa's Ghost"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Wisdom, John Atkins, "Hemingway and The: American Novel, Motion Picture, Great Outdoors, Old Man and the Sea"
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Wisdom, Ernest Hemingway, "From the Wisdom of Ernest Hemingway"
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals
    • Description: Writer's Digest, Edward Stafford, "Afternoon with Hemingway"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 4
      Location: Magazines and Journals

Alan Virta and Mary Hepworth in 1998. Revised in 2017 by Gwyn Hervochon.
1998; updated 2023

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