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This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 535 items) |
Abstract | H. L. Mencken of Baltimore, Md., was a journalist, author, and critic. The collection contains about 500 letters from Mencken to Elizabeth Peck Hanes and Frederic Moir Hanes of Winston-Salem, N.C., and some other items. Mencken's letters concern mutual friends, travels, Mencken's visits to the Haneses' house, politics and public figures, Mencken's writing, food and drink, the health of Mencken and his wife Sara Haardt Mencken, and other matters. Other items include 27 letters from Sara Haardt Mencken. |
Creator | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Updated by: Kate Jordan, April 2011
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H. L. Mencken of Baltimore, Md., was a journalist, author, and critic.
Back to TopThe collection contains about 500 letters from Mencken to Elizabeth Peck Hanes and Frederic Moir Hanes of Winston-Salem, N.C., and some other items. Mencken's letters concern mutual friends, travels, Mencken's visits to the Haneses' house, politics and public figures, Mencken's writing, food and drink, the health of Mencken and his wife Sara Haardt Mencken, and other matters. Other items include 27 letters from Sara Haardt Mencken. Later letters pertain to Elizabeth Peck Hanes's wishes for the material and the disposition of some correspondence between H. L. Mencken and the artist Walt Kuhn.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid material |
Folder 1 |
1927 |
Folder 2 |
1928 |
Folder 3 |
1929 |
Folder 4 |
1930 |
Folder 5 |
1931 |
Folder 6 |
1932 |
Folder 7 |
1933 |
Folder 8 |
1934 |
Folder 9 |
1935 |
Folder 10 |
1936 |
Folder 11 |
1937 |
Folder 12 |
1938 |
Folder 13 |
1939 |
Folder 14 |
1940 |
Folder 15 |
1941 |
Folder 16 |
1942 |
Folder 17 |
1943 |
Folder 18 |
1944 |
Folder 19 |
1945 |
Folder 20 |
1946 |
Folder 21 |
1947-1948 |
Folder 22 |
1949-1952, 1958, 1959, 1968-1970 |
Folder 23 |
Letter and ribbons, undated |
Folder 24 |
Clippings, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1944-1945, and undated |