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San Francisco de Paula: Cuba made the first of thousands of digitised documents, photographs and books that belonged to writer Ernest Hemingway available to scholars on Monday, after the items languished for decades in the basement of his home outside of Havana.
Most of the papers have never been published and will give scholars new insight into the 21 years Hemingway spent at Finca Vigia in San Francisco de Paula where he wrote some of his greatest works, said Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales, the director of Museo Ernest Hemingway. Scholars "will be able to study important documents that shed light on the Cuban period of Hemingway, which was very important and not well known by his biographers," she said.
The documents included coded accounts by Hemingway of his exploits searching for German submarines off Cuba's coast during World War Two and letters about his love affair with Italian Countess Adriana Ivancich, believed to be the model for the heroine in his 1950 novel Across the River and Into the Trees, Alfonso said.
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