{"id":176,"date":"2019-09-12T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:48:21","slug":"2-new-ending","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/exhibition\/1-conceptualization\/2-research\/3-dialog\/4-inspiration\/5-rewriting\/2-new-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"6 &#8211; New Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953), collector, publisher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953), a New York-based bookseller specializing in modern first editions at a shop called House of Books, was Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s first bibliographer. Cohn began corresponding with Hemingway in 1930, collecting the author\u2019s works as well as Hemingway\u2019s corrections to Cohn\u2019s emerging bibliography. Cohn also published a series entitled &#8220;The Crown Octavos&#8221; under the imprint of the House of Books. Number two of the series was Hemingway&#8217;s <em>God Rest You Merry Gentlemen<\/em> published in a limited edition of 300 copies in mid-April of 1933, the first appearance of this short story. The galley proofs that Hemingway returned to Cohn included a new ending to the short story as compared with his typescript manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All items from the Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn Hemingway collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cGod rest you merry gentlemen,\u201d <strong>typescript [carbon]<\/strong> with minor autograph corrections, 5 pages, undated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cGod rest you merry gentlemen,\u201d <strong>galley proof<\/strong>, 5 pages, with autograph corrections, additions, and the inscription: &#8220;OK, EH,&#8221; March 3, 1933<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God Rest You Merry Gentlemen. <strong>First edition<\/strong>. Crown Octavos, No. 2. New York: House of Books, 1933. Number 256 of three hundred copies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), author Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953), collector, publisher Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953), a New York-based bookseller specializing in modern first editions at a shop called House of Books, was Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s first bibliographer. Cohn began corresponding with Hemingway in 1930, collecting the author\u2019s works as well as Hemingway\u2019s corrections to Cohn\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}