endings to A Farewell to Arms Research material on bullfighting, used as background for Death in the Afternoon and The Dangerous Summer Thousands of letters written by or to Hemingway; this included correspondence with fellow writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Carlos Baker, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Martha Gellhorn, A. E. Hotchner, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as with actress Marlene Dietrich, restaurateur Toots Shor, Cardinal Francis Spellman, publisher Charles Scribner, his editor Maxwell Perkins, and his lawyer Alfred Rice More than 10,000 photographs, as well as press clippings and other ephemera Books from his private library, many with marginalia, and including a rare copy of Francisco Goya's Los Proverbios 2013 fire On April 15, 2013, a fire occurred in the library. Initial reports stated the fire appears to have started in a mechanical room. An official communication from the library stated that the fire was being investigated. The fire was unrelated to the Boston Marathon bombing, which occurred simultaneously. 2022 death In October of 2022, a window washer fell to his death in the building's pavillion. See also List of memorials to John F. Kennedy Presidential memorials in the United States Notes References External links John F. Kennedy Library and Museum John F. Kennedy Library and Museum online store Library Presidential Library and Museum Kennedy, John F. Library Kennedy, John F. Museums in Boston Dorchester, Boston Museums established in 1977 1977 establishments in Massachusetts Library buildings completed in 1979 1979 establishments in Massachusetts Landmarks in Boston Kennedy, John F. Library Modernist architecture in Massachusetts Ernest Hemingway Oral history