“Hemingway himself never wanted his letters to be published and in 1958 he wrote out a note to his executors to that effect. But there was such intense interest and it was almost twenty years before his widow…decided to override [his] wishes and…authorize the selected letters, and then twenty more years after that when it was decided to have the complete letters,” says Sandra Spanier, co-editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922.