NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A recently discovered short story and a letter written by Ernest Hemingway in 1924 are enmeshed in legal wrangling preventing the documents' publication.
"My Life in the Bull Ring with Donald Ogden Stewart" and a letter, both found by Stewart's son in his late father's belongings, cannot be published without permission from the Hemingway estate, which has already denied the request, the New York Times reported Monday.
The articles can, however, be sold because they are considered artifacts.
Christie's of New York will put the items, estimated to bring between $12,000 and $18,000, into an auction in December.
Donald Stewart, Donald Ogden Stewart's 72-year-old son who lives in Rome, owns the items, which he found in an envelope left by his author father after his 1980 death.
The younger Stewart had decided to publish the short story in Vanity Fair, which had accepted the manuscript, when permission was withheld by Hemingway's estate.
