But Kennedy made a special arrangement for Mary Hemingway, his fourth wife and now his widow, to go to Cuba to retrieve her and Hemingway’s legacy there. Finca Vigía, Hemingway's house near ...

The collection ended up in the Kennedy library through a series of events that linked the Kennedys to Hemingway’s fourth wife, Mary ... planned to turn the house into a Hemingway museum.

Friday, May 26, 1944, was a bright, warm day, and Mary strolled with Shaw up Rathbone Place to the lunch club at the White ... Hemingway.” The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F ...

She shows a pair of antique chairs that Mary Todd Lincoln sold “because she was destitute” that had been recently donated back to the White House. The show was a defining moment for Kennedy.

After his death, Kennedy, despite the extreme tensions that followed the Bay of Pigs episode, gained permission for Hemingway’s fourth wife and widow, Mary, to go to Cuba to collect her husband ...

Bar bills, personal notes, telegrams and even recipes from Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway are available for the first time at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.The ...

After Hemingway’s death in 1961, Kennedy helped his widow gain access to the author’s former home in Cuba to retrieve his papers and other belongings. Mary Hemingway later decided to offer the ...