Papers of Henry Louis Mencken [manuscript] 1935-56.

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Papers of Henry Louis Mencken [manuscript] 1935-56.

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Correspondence with Atcheson Laughlin Hench, professor of English at the University of Virginia, discussing etymology, contemporary English, dialects, and Mencken's The American language (1919); together with newspaper and magazine articles by and about Mencken, his obituaries, and reprints of articles, collected by Hench. After Mencken's stroke in 1948, his letters were written by his secretary, Rosalind C. Lohrfinck. Partial chronological list with the collection.

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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...