SOURCE: Ludington, Townsend. “Papa Agonistes.” New Republic 184, no. 3460 (2 May 1981): 32-36.

In the following mixed assessment of Hemingway's selected letters, Ludington maintains that the collection will be “fascinating to a substantial audience who doubtless will find many details boring and references obscure.”

Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald, from Burguete, Spain, July 1925:

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors and one house would be fitted up with special copies of the Dial printed on soft tissue and kept in the toilets on every floor and in the other...