Taylor Williams Typed Letter Recollecting About Ernest Hemingway. [with] Ernest Hemingway Photographs.

Rare original typed letter from guide Taylor Williams recollecting about hunting antelope with Ernest Hemingway. One page, single typed sheet. The letter reads in full, "Hemingway Box by Taylor Williams. Our party, (consisting of Hemingway, Lloyd Arnold, Ellis Chapin, our packer, and myself) had ridden into the first fringe of foothills above the plains along the Pahsimoroi River in quest of a trophy antelope, having passed up several in the lower country that were not to our liking. Chapin was riding off to the side where he could get a view from behind a butte when he shouted to us that he had just jumped a small band of antelope. With that, Hemingway spurred his horse and rode forward to get a better view as they came out from behind the rise. On seeing a sizable buck which was, by this time, in full stride, he dismounted and ran forward for a better view and shot. He was using my Model 70 Winchester 257 with open sights. He struck the buck high in the shoulders and he went down at the first shot. We stepped off the distance, 220 full steps. I think this was one of the most spectacular shots that I can remember in my experience as a guide." The writer was Hemingway’s great friend, Taylor “Beartracks” Williams, the well-known Sun Valley hunting and fishing guide. Hemingway’s friendship with Williams dated back to their meeting in Idaho in the late 1930s, after which Hemingway frequently returned to Ketchum before eventually settling there. Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) while staying in Ketchum, Idaho, where the landscape and relative isolation supported sustained work on the novel. It is even illustrated on the dust jacket with a photograph of him at his typewriter taken there. In near fine condition with creasing and mail folds.   Accompanied by two black and white glossy photographs of Hemingway with an antelope. The first is Hemingway smiling in a cowboy hat, standing beside a horse with an antelope on its back, and holding its horn with his left hand. The second is Hemingway and his third wife Martha Gellhorn smiling, sitting on a hill together and holding the horns of an antelope. Both in near fine condition with light creasing. The pieces measure 8.5 inches by 6.5 inches. Together with a folded leaflet by Lloyd R. Arnold, "High on the Wild with Hemingway", about For Whom the Bell Tolls. In fine condition.