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H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

1880–1956 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Contempo records, 1930-1934

Contempo · 1930

Records of 'Contempo, a review of books and personalities', the Chapel Hill literary magazine, covering 1930 to 1934, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4408. Milton Abernethy and Tony Buttitta are among the people covered, along with writers the magazine dealt with: William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings and H. L. Mencken.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.

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The H. L. Mencken papers in the Southern Historical Collection

West, Walter C. · 1979

Walter C. West describes the H. L. Mencken papers in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a body of correspondence that also takes in letters involving Frederic M. Hanes, DeWitt Hanes and Elizabeth Peck Hanes. Written in 1979.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.

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