Sandra Spanier, Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway and co-editor of the first four volumes. Her essays have appeared in Modern Critical Interpretations: 'A Farewell to Arms' (1987), New Essays on 'A Farewell to Arms' (Cambridge, 1990), Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice (2002), and Ernest Hemingway in Context (Cambridge, 2013), and she serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review. Her books include Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (2015), Process: A Novel by Kay Boyle (2001) and Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles's rediscovered play, Love Goes to Press (1995; revised edition 2010). Miriam B. Mandel, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Culture at Tel Aviv University, served as Associate Editor of earlier volumes and co-editor of the fourth volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. Her books include Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (1995, re-issued 2011), Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon': The Complete Annotations (2008), and Hemingway's 'The Dangerous Summer': The Complete Annotations (2008). She is the editor of A Companion to Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' (2004) and Hemingway and Africa (2011, re-issued 2016), has published more than thirty essays in academic journals and books, is the recipient of seven major grants, and serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review.

'Cambridge and the editors have produced a 'damned good', magisterial work on one of the most complicated and skilful writers in English, and scholars and book lovers will eagerly await the twelve or more volumes to come.' Austin Long, The Review of English Studies

• List of plates; List of maps; General editor's introduction; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Abbreviations and short titles; Introduction to the volume; Chronology; Maps; The Letters 1932–May 1934; Roster of correspondents; Calendar of letters; Index of recipients; General index.