Hemingway's letter on surviving back-to-back plane crashes sells for $237K

The story leaped from the creased pages of the hotel stationery it was written on: a plane crash that left the author racked with third-degree burns and internal bleeding. It was written by Ernest Hemingway, and it hinted at a dramatic escape that would have been at home in any of the novelist's war stories.

Hemingway was, in fact, describing a brush…