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Days Before He Died, Ernest Hemingway Gifted a Signed Book to a Mayo Nurse. Now It's Headed to a Museum
The signed Hemingway book, inscribed during his 1961 hospital stay, was donated by the Sisters of St. Francis to enrich the Nobel Prize Museum's Hemingway collection.
- On Monday, the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester donated a signed Hemingway book to the Nobel Prize Museum, with DeBerg facilitating the donation.
- After touring the Nobel Prize Museum, Sister Edith Zamboni told curators she wanted to donate a signed Hemingway book she and other sisters had kept since 1961.
- The signed volume sat in a hospital vault and later in Assisi Heights storage after Ernest Hemingway inscribed it to Sister Immaculata on June 16, 1961.
- The donation positions the volume for public display at the Nobel Prize Museum , with Curtis DeBerg coordinating transport and planning to present the book early next year.
- Sister Edith Zamboni recalled sneaking into Hemingway's room, with reporting questioning Mayo's treatment, which gives added poignancy to the inscription.
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Six decades after Hemingway's death, a signed copy of his book is gifted by Sisters of St. Francis
ROCHESTER — In 1961, Ernest Hemingway, then considered the world’s most famous author, came to Mayo Clinic for treatment for depression. It would form the last, ultimately tragic, chapter of his adventurous life. Six days after being discharged from Saint Marys Hospital, Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun at his Idaho home. On Monday, in a ceremony reminiscent of a sacred object changing hands, a signed edition of Hemingway’s book, “The Old…
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