'Once more I am a wretch'

On This Day in Letters

Ernest Hemingway to Fritz Saviers, 15 June 1961. Christie’s.

The following letters were all written on the fifteenth day of a June gone by, which by my reckoning means that today is their birthday. Therefore these letters deserve your attention and they deserve cake, and that cake should be sent to me, Shaun Usher, Lord of Letters, to be fairly divided u…