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H. L. Mencken letter to D. Lorraine Yerkes

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0211
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.

Dates: 1948 April 17

H. L. Mencken letters to Harry P. Taber and Robert Grant Dick

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Identifier: MSS 0099-F0773
Abstract

Two typed letters written by H. L. Mencken to Harry P. Taber and Robert Grant Dick, dated May 16, 1940, and April 7, 1941.

Dates: 1940 May 16-1941 April 7

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  • Names: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 X
  • Subject: Journalists--United States--Correspondence X

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