How did Hemingway become Papa
In this clip, Alice Sokoloff asks Hadley if she remembers how the name “Papa” began, which was sometime during their years in Paris. As we know, Hemingway was wonderful at assigning nicknames to almost everyone he knew. Throughout the tapes, Hadley enjoys remembering affectionate names between them such as “Bumby” and “Bumili”, “Hemingstein”, “Tattie”, “Hash”, “Feather Kitty”, “Wax Puppy”, and “Tiny”.
“You did a lot of playing with words,” Alice observes, later in the tape. “We both loved words”, Hadley agrees, “I loved words as much as he did but I wasn’t a magician.”
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Jan Parsons 
Interesting! I wonder what the “tattie” meant? I never knew that they both used that name for each other.
I love these interviews with Hadley! So enjoyable.
Allie, I guess you know the Hemingway conference is going on right now as we speak in Switzerland, right?
There’s a website about it,if you’re interested. I am just sick that I didn’t go to the conference last summer that was held in my home state, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI !!!
Thanks for these great clips of Hadley. What a wonderful resource you are.
I always thought it was odd that he was being called “Papa” or had asked people in Paris to call him that. Later on, you could understand but for someone in his 20’s? An extremely interesting snippet, Allie! Great works as always. As you can tell, you have many followers from all over and we love this site!
I can’t understand calling him papa at all… It’s such a nurturing word, and Hemingway has never struck me as a nurturing person.
That’s a neat quote from Hadley: it might explain some of the appeal that Hemingway had for Hadley.
I never got the “Papa.” Never thought of Hemingway as a father figure. Interesting that the name stuck.
The truth is that Gerald Murphy called women daughter, and Ernest started doing that. Why? He was always in competition with Gerald. EH gave himself the name Papa. When Ernest named his son Patrick, Gerald was extremely irritated. One of Gerald’s son’s was named Patrick and Gerald said “And here I thought I picked a name that was foolproof.” This competition that came from Ernest irked Gerald to no end.
It would have irked me too. Just for the record, Hadley was considered “spacey” by most people.
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