Charley Hively writes “30 of Ernest Hemingway’s letters have been donated to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston. The letters, never made public, will remain sealed for four years, according to the wishes of Dietrich’s heirs. Brief samples of the letters, provided to The New York Times, offer an intimate glimpse into an abiding friendship between two cultural legends of the 20th century that until now was understood in only limited detail. Though the letters are deeply affectionate and Dietrich and Hemingway were both sex symbols for their generation — he the literary lion, she the silver-screen siren — their descendants maintain the relationship was entirely platonic.
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