H.L. Mencken correspondence, 1926-1937.

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H.L. Mencken correspondence, 1926-1937.

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This collection consists of the papers of H.L. Mencken from 1926-1937. The papers include 248 letters, postcards, telegrams, and printed items from H.L. Mencken to Gretchen Hood (September 15, 1887-May 2, 1978), a music teacher, opera singer and prominent social figure from Washington, D.C., whose father, diplomatic journalist Edwin Milton Hood, was a founder of the National Press Club. Topics include Mencken's health, work, family, writings in progress, prohibition, literature, music, and politics.

1.25 linear ft. : (3 boxes)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Hood, Gretchen, 1886-1978

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Mencken family.

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