October 30, 1950

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 printed in the July 1933 American Mercury; and a copy of the Winter 1971 issue of Menckeniana, which contains "My Mencken Letters," a brief reminiscence by Wylie.