Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence

Scope and Contents The sixty-three letters in this collection are arranged chronologically. Mencken wrote forty-nine letters to Wylie--the first in 1927, the last in 1948; Lohrfinck wrote the other fourteen--the first in 1947, the last in 1956. Besides the letters, this collection contains four other items: an undated page of notes in which Wylie clarified points made in some of the letters; a copy of Wylie's poem printed in the January 1928 American Mercury; a copy of her short story...

Abstract Lancelot moved Walsh as a study of evil and rebirth. He particularly empathized with the character of the priest who listens silently as the novel's central character, Lance, recounts a story of jealousy, deceit, and vengeance set in south Louisiana. The priest and Lance are old acquaintances, having grown up and gone to school together. Lance ascribes literary and religious persona to the various stages of the unresponding priest's life: Harry, Harry...