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1880–1956 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
The index holds 2 works for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.
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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.
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.
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