H. L. Mencken Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS-0001

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H. L. Mencken Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS-0001

This small collection of pamphlets, reprints, and correspondence is part of the larger collection of one hundred individually cataloged monographs and serials by and about H. L. Mencken, which is also housed in Special Collections. These small items consist of promotional materials, special event publications, letters, and one sound recording.

Conditions Governing Access: This collection is open for research.
Dates: Creation: 1914-1968
Extent: 21.00 items; .21 Linear Feet
Related Names: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) (Henry Louis Mencken); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Language of Materials: English

A Personal Word. Description of the editorial and business organization of the Smart Set, a circulation booster. n.p., n.d. [1914], 16 pages.

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Identifier: Item 1

The American Language. A chapter from the 4th edition. Publisher's advance printing of one complete chapter with descriptive text on cover. Prints the entire preface to the new edition and the complete chapter X: Proper Names in America. n.d. [ca. 1939], 83 pages.

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Identifier: Item 2

American Profanity. Reprinted from American Speech, New York: Columbia, University Press, Dec 1944, 9 pages. Signed by H.L. Mencken.

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Identifier: Item 3

The Eminent Physician by H.L. Mencken. Berkeley: Gillick Press, n.d. [1940], 7 pages.

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Identifier: Item 4

The Incomparable Physician by H.L. Mencken. San Francisco: McDonald, 1936, 14 pages.

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Identifier: Item 5

Menckeniana. A selection from H.L. Mencken's Mencken Chrestomathy with a forenote by George Jean Nathan. New York: Knopf, 1949, 16 pages. Green wrappers, printed label.

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Identifier: Item 6

The Smart Set. Suggestions to our visitors. 26 policy statements "issued as a jocosity" by Mencken N.Y. n.d. [1915], 4 pages.

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Identifier: Item 7

Suggestions to our visitors by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken, editors of The Smart Set. Reprinted at San Francisco, 1968 by the Roxburghe Club, 8 pages.

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Identifier: Item 8

Spiritual Autopsies, an article on Gamelia Bradford. by H.L. Mencken. Issued as an advertisement by the publisher for Bradford's American Portraits. New York: Houghton, 1921, 4 pages.

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Identifier: Item 9

Upton Sinclair. Biographical and critical opinions from England, France, Germany, Belgium and the U.S.A including Henry Barbusse, H.L. Mencken and others. Pasadena: Sinclair, n.d. [1922], 32 pages.

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Identifier: Item 10

H.L. Mencken by Walter Lippmann. Reprinted from The Saturday Review, Dec. 11, 1926. New York: Knopf (1926), 8 pages.

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Identifier: Item 11

The Love Story of an Old Maid by Sara Haardt. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications. Blue Book no. 375, n.d. [192?], 32 pages.

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Identifier: Item 12

A Literary Chameleon: A New Estimate of Mr. H.L. Mencken by J.D. Logan. Milwaukee: privately printed, 1926, 22 pages. Copy no. 30 of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Also signed by Mencken in full, on the cover.

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Identifier: Item 13

H.L. Mencken Speaking. Mencken conversing with Donald H. Kirkley Sr. of The Baltimore Sun, recorded by the library of Congress, D.C., June 30, 1948. 33 1/3 LP record, and cassette tape.

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Identifier: Item 14

Book review for L'Action Française, Sept. 14, 1933. One 3x5" card.

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Identifier: Item 15

La revue de critique l'American Mercury, que dirige le Juif Mencken, est, de l'avis de M. Bernard Fay, spècialiste des choses d'Amérique, "l'une des plus vivantes, des plus pittorerques, des plus typiques des Etats-Unis." en mème temys "qu'une des forces d'opinion les plus solides."