The newly acquired collection of more than 1,200 writings makes USC the top research center in the world for published works by Ernest Hemingway.
/ Ivory Hecker
COLUMBIA (WACH) -- The University of South Carolina's special collections library is now home to one of the most complete collections of Ernest Hemingway's published work.
The writings by the twentieth century writer were donated by a mississippi man -- Dr. C. Edgar Grissom -- who had been accumulating Hemingway's work for more than fifty years.
The collection includes some of the rarest print Hemingway titles.
USC had a collection of Hemingway writings for student research before this, but it was incomplete.
"Now people can study all of Hemingway's print work in one place, and that's an awful lot," said Elizabeth Sudduth, director of the Irvin Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections Library at USC. "We are now the top research center in the world for published works by Ernest Hemingway."
The collection of more than 1,200 writings is stored in a document-preserving vault at the library, but they are available for use by researchers.
Or, as Sudduth says, the writings are available for research to anyone with "clean hands and a pure heart."
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