People: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 20 linear ft.
Abstract:: Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1892. In 1914, White graduated from Bryn Mawr College. She married her first husband, Ernest Angell in 1915, and with him she had two children, Nancy and Roger. After a divorce in 1929, Katharine married her second husband, New Yorker staff writer E. B. White. White's career at The New Yorker began in 1925 and continued until her retirement in 1961. As the first fiction editor of the magazine, White not only exerted an unparalleled influence on the course of the development of the magazine, but on contemporary American literature itself. This collection documents White's career at The New Yorker, the history of the magazine, and her retirement years in Maine, primarily through correspondence, her writings, and other materials.

Held at: Bryn Mawr College [Contact Us]

Extent:: 2 item (2 page)
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.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 2 item (2 pages)
Abstract:: Two typed letters written by H. L. Mencken to Harry P. Taber and Robert Grant Dick, dated May 16, 1940, and April 7, 1941.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 6.75 linear foot (8 boxes), 9 phonograph record (8 acetate discs and 1 aluminum disc), and 1 oversize removal (1 oversized folder)
Abstract:: Harold Brayman (1900-1988), a political journalist and former director of the Public Relations Department of Du Pont Company for 21 years, helped establish a concept of public relations which was widely emulated throughout the United States. The Harold Brayman papers supplement, spanning from 1914-1992, contains substantial editions to the original collection, documenting Brayman's dual careers in the fields of journalism and public relations. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, press releases, speeches, newspaper clippings and articles, photographs, memorabilia and books.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .33 linear foot (1 box)
Abstract:: This prepublication typed manuscript of American screen writer and author Anita Loos's (1893-1981) autobiography A Girl Like I (1966) bears typed and handwritten editorial markings. Some of the pencil notations are in Loos's hand.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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