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H. L. Mencken letter to D. Lorraine Yerkes

 Collection
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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Beverley Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0620
Abstract

The Beverley Nichols papers document the personal and professional activities of prolific twentieth-century English novelist, playwright, journalist, composer, and political activist Beverley Nichols. The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, musical compositions, and photographs primarily dating between 1911 and 1991.

Dates: 1698, 1911-1991, undated; Majority of material found within 1911-1991
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Ulick O'Connor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0137
Abstract

This collection consists of material accumulated over a 25-year period by Ulick O’Connor: biographer, poet, playwright and journalist. O’Connor’s biographies of Brendan Behan and Oliver St. John Gogarty have been recognized internationally as definitive works. A large portion of the collection deals with materials for these books.

Dates: 1904-1976; Majority of material found within 1960-1974
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 1
Behan, Brendan 1
Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982 1
Connon, Bryan. Beverley Nichols: a life 1
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Gibbon, Monk, 1896-1987 1
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957 1
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1
Mac Liammóir, Micheál, 1899-1978 1
Mackenzie, Compton, 1883-1972 1
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
Mizner, Wilson, 1876-1933 1
Nichols, Beverley, 1898-1983 1
O'Connor, Ulick 1
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983--Correspondence 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Yerkes, Lorraine 1
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