H. L. Mencken letter to D. Lorraine Yerkes
Content Description
Typed and signed letter written by journalist, satirist, and critic H. L. Mencken to Lorraine Yerkes mentioning Mencken's acquiantance with the late playwright and entrepreneur Wilson Mizner, his astonishment that Mrs. Paepcke's daughter is old enough to marry, and the "damndest flood of nuisance mail I have ever encountered" upon his return from his Florida vacation, dated April 17, 1948.
Dates
- Creation: 1948 April 17
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
2 item (2 page)
Abstract
Typed and signed letter written by journalist, satirist, and critic H. L. Mencken to Lorraine Yerkes mentioning Mencken's acquiantance with the late playwright and entrepreneur Wilson Mizner, his astonishment that Mrs. Paepcke's daughter is old enough to marry, and the "damndest flood of nuisance mail I have ever encountered" upon his return from his Florida vacation, dated April 17, 1948.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Robert Dick, 2006.
Shelving Summary
Box 9, F0211: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Processing Information
Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, March 2016.
Subject
- Yerkes, Lorraine (Person)
- Mizner, Wilson, 1876-1933 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for H. L. Mencken letter to D. Lorraine Yerkes
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2016 March 1
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository