Ernest Hemingway letter about surviving plane crashes sold for $237,055

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The novelist’s four-page letter to his lawyer in 1954 recounts his injuries following two successive plane crashes in two days

A letter written by Ernest Hemingway recounting his harrowing injuries after surviving two successive plane crashes in two days has sold at auction for $237,055 (£187,751).

In the four-page letter to his lawyer Alfred Rice, the novelist also wrote of his experience shooting his first lion in Kenya using a gun that had to be held together with sticky tape.

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