Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Percy-Walsh Correspondence
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Collection 13
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...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1985; Other: Date acquired: 05/03/2000