I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on a
train and that they never were recovered.
I can't match the agony of this
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Chinaski and Hemingway, now there's a pair to draw to! ... and drink with.
It's very frustrating to lose work you have typed on a computer. Demoralizing. Hemingway's loss could have been even worse. He did not cope well with such things.