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Box 1

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H. L. Mencken Letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Collection 06
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...
Dates: Created: 1927-1956; Other: Date acquired: 09/05/2005