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Happel, Ralph. The Waugh correspondence [manuscript] 1970.

Title: The Waugh correspondence [manuscript] 1970.

An account of the 1953 correspondence between John Cook Wylie, Carrol H. Quenzel, & Happel, who wrote under the pseudonym John Waugh in a prank attempt to convince the others that he had valuable early U. S. manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Happel, Ralph. Postage stamp, postmarked first day of issue, Wilderness Station, Va., commemorating the Battle of the Wilderness [manuscript] 1964 May 5.

Title: Postage stamp, postmarked first day of issue, Wilderness Station, Va., commemorating the Battle of the Wilderness [manuscript] 1964 May 5.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Jett, T. Sutton. Report on Brompton (Also known as the Marye House) [manuscript] / written by junior historians T. Sutton Jett and Ralph Happel of the National Park Service, 1937 March 22.

Title: Report on Brompton (Also known as the Marye House) [manuscript] / written by junior historians T. Sutton Jett and Ralph Happel of the National Park Service, 1937 March 22.

Report describes the house, gives a chronology of land purchases, notes its historical significance in the battle of Fredericksburg and subsequent Chancellorsville and Wilderness campaigns, and its importance to the National Park Service. Three plats and a map are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Happel, Ralph. Papers of Ralph Happel [manuscript], 1838-1948.

Title: Papers of Ralph Happel [manuscript], 1838-1948.

Include brief historical sketches of Hanover County and Bacon's Castle, and by-laws, reports, and notes on the Conestoga Community Center of Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pa. Of interest is a letter, 1908, from Gaston Pollard, New York, to a Prof. Deering re: the latter's interest in Franz Grillparzer. Another letter, 1946, from Ralph Happel, Fredericksburg, Va. to H.L. Mencken, attempts to trace the phrase "son-of-a-bitch" in American slang.

ArchivalResource: 15 (ca.) items.

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Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974. Papers regarding Henry Louis Mencken [manuscript] 1935-70.

Title: Papers regarding Henry Louis Mencken [manuscript] 1935-70.

The collection contains letters to, from and about Mencken, particularly regarding the phrase "start-naked" and the phrase "son of a bitch," some clippings regarding Mencken, a rejoinder to a Mencken essay lampooning schools of journalism and The Mencken-Hench correspondence, 1970, ed. by Sharon Vandercook. Ralph Happel is a correspondent.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

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