“Dear Papa,” Hemingway wrote as a young boy, “today mama and the rest of us took a walk. We walked to the school house. . . . In the Wood Shed of the Scool house there was a porcupine. . . . I went in and gave I[t] a wack with the axx. Then I cave I[t] anthor and another. Then I crald in the wood.” From the Special Collection Libraries/The Pennsylvania State University Library.