H.L. Mencken letters, 1914 ca.-1946.

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H.L. Mencken letters, 1914 ca.-1946.

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The collection consists of seventeen letters and an article about Gamaliel Bradford. Included are letters to admirers, contributors, and acquaintances, several letters to W.L. Werner, and several letters to Mr. Glick. Topics include replies to requests for autographs, rejection or acceptance letters from American mercury and Smart set (as co-editor 1914-1923), and several letters discussing pre-World War II Germany. Also, a reprint of the article Spiritual autopsies, about Gamaliel Bradford.

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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...

Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932

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Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932) was an American biographical essayist, poet, dramatist, and critic of Wellesley, Mass. He was the sixth of seven Gamaliel Bradfords in unbroken succession, of whom the first was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. He entered Harvard College with the Class of 1886, but withdrew after a few weeks due to fragile health, a problem that was to plague him his entire life. He married Helen Hubbard Ford. Bradford attempted virtua...

Werner, William Louser, 1894-1965

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William L. Werner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 20, 1894. He received a bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College in 1915 and served in France with the 316th Infantry during World War I. He was an instructor in English at Penn State in 1920, earning a master's degree in 1922. Following Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee's retirement in 1928, he assumed much of Dr. Pattee's work in American literature. He was made a full professor of American literature in 1936 and retired in 1959 as profe...