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BALTIMORE, MD.,

January 17, 1922

MR. HENRY L. MENCKEN

1524 Hollins St., Baltimore, Md.

Multigraphing 25 copies 1st page 46 lines 3 26
2nd page 34 lines 2 54

Paper furnished 50

6 30

STAR SPANGLED MEN

I open the memoirs of General Grant, Volume II, at the place
where he is describing the surrender of General Lee, and find
the following:

(small type)

I was without a sword, as I su

H.L.MENCKEN

1524 HOLLINS ST.
BALTIMORE.

October and

Dear Miss Reading:-

I'll look for you at 2.30 P.M. tomorrow (Saturday).

Will you please have the enclosed copied for me? If it gets back to me, with the copies, by Monday evening it will be in time. Please note the numbers and sub-heads that have been inserted. The sub-heads are to be underscored, and the numbers are to be set out in the middle of the line, with a space above and another below.

H.L.MENCKEN

1524 HOLLINS ST.
BALTIMORE.

October 13th

Dear Miss Redding:-

I suggest making our session on Saturday at 3 P.M.
instead of at 2.30, if that is convenient to you.

H. L. MENCKEN • Editor • ALFRED A. KNOPF • Publisher • SAMUEL KNOPF • Business Manager

THE AMERICAN MERCURY

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NEW YORK

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Telephones: CIRCLE 7670 • 7675

May 19, 1926.

Dear Miss Redding:

I suggest that we have a
session at ten o'clock on Saturday.
If this is all right, don't bother to
answer. If I don't hear from you, I'll
look for you then.

HLM:L

1524 Hollins Street
Baltimore, Md.

Miss Reading,
The Stanton,
115 south Pennsylvania avenue,
Atlantic City, N.J.

Letter to Mr Mencken thanking him for Prejudices Fifth Series
inscribed: "For Miss Redding who did as much work on it as
H L Mencken"

COPY

Monday

Dear Mr. Mencken -

Thank you again and many times for the "Prejudices"
book - for your generous inscription - which is _true_ perhaps, but
the difference in the work!

But the typing of any of your stuff is a real
pleasure because what one types _sinks in_, and I am glad indeed
to have your philosophy ingrained deeply within me -

11/29.26

THE AMERICAN MERCURY

730 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK

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Telephones: CIRCLE 7670

January 10th.

Dear Miss Redding:

Thanks very much. The
MS came in time.

I'll be looking for you
on Friday morning at ten o'clock.

Personal

Miss Redding,

505 Morris Bldg

Charles and Saratoga sts

City

March 9, 1928.

Dear Mr. Mencken:

Once again I intrude on you with personal business. That is, if you can call getting married "business". I am at last convinced that I am one of the unlucky mortals who cannot live alone. This would not interest you if it were not for the single fact that I must reside in New York with my husband- to be, and so of course give up the immense privilege of taking care of your personal dictation in Baltimore.

In order that you may not be inconvenienced, I am coaching my sister, Mrs. Lohrfinck, to take your mail. She is a good stenographer and an intelligent woman. I hope I have not been presumptious in assuming that you would find her satisfactory. She is eager to take care of your mail, and I hope you find the arrangement satisfactory. I am to be married on April 7. I'll take care of you myself up to that date. Afterwards, you can call on her, as you have me. She will also manage the office, and your manuscript, clippings, or other requirements in the stenographic line will be looked after here as usual.

The man I am marrying - CharlesF. Lappin - is with the New York Life Insurance Company - but he uses his hours of relaxation for studying and writing. So far he has done nothing worth much, but he has had encouragement from some of the magazine editors.

Working for you has been such a privilege that I give it up with real regret. I hope you'll let me do something for you at some other time. I'd like very much to get your Free Lance clippings into shape for you. It would be an easy task for my odd moments. Or if you contemplate any indexing on your new book, or other detail work, I'll do it gladly if it can be handled in New York. I'll be in close touch with Baltimore, and expect to spend at least a week out of each month here.

Please forgive me for the infusion on your time. I'd have notified you on my intention sooner, but I did not want to bother you while you were ill. I am afraid that today is none too soothing to your throat.

Sincerely,

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MY BEST THANKS AS USUAL I SPENT THE DAY IN PRAYER STRIVING TO BECOME A BETTER AMERICAN

MENCKEN.

1928 SEP 13 PM 1 22

H.L.MENCKEN

1524 HOLLINS ST.
BALTIMORE.

December 13th

Dear Mrs. Lappin:-

My best thanks, and my apologies for putting you to so much
trouble. The clippings are precisely the ones I wanted.

A happy New Year!

THE AMERICAN MERCURY

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NEW YORK

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Telephones: CIRCLE 7670

December 28th.

Dear Mrs. Lappin:

I surely hope that you will
be quite well very soon. I sent you
a blank clipping book by Mrs. Lohrfinck
yesterday.

I'll be here until New Year's
and after that, for a week or so, I'll
be in Baltimore. Needless to say, I'll
be delighted to see you whenever you get
out.

1524 HOLLINS STREET
BALTIMORE, MD.

Mrs. Charles Lappin,
137 East 26th St.,
New York City.

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Mrs. C.F.Lappin,
137 east 26th street
New York City

Mrs. Charles Lappin,
137 E. 26th St.,
New York City.

Mrs. C.F.Lappin,
c/o Reading,
2900 Reisterstown road,
City

H.L.MENCKEN

1524 HOLLINS ST.
BALTIMORE.

August 5th

Dear Mrs. Lappin:-

Thanks very much for the books. I was in the house when you left them, but didn't hear of your call until you had gone. I am sorry I missed you. Within is my check.

You are lucky to find Baltimore in an amiable mood. Last week the weather was infernal.

H. L. MENCKEN

1524 HOLLINS ST.

BALTIMORE February 21, 1930.

Dear Mrs. Lappin:

Here I am back again, and behind a barrage of accumulated
clippings. I enclose some herewith, and more will follow from time
to time in other envelopes. Let them go into a book at your leisure.
My sister tells me that she sent you a new volume soon after I sailed.

H.L.MENCKEN

1524 HOLLINS ST.
BALTIMORE.

June 4, 1930.

Dear Mrs. Lappin:

I wrote to you yesterday before your note of this
morning came in. I'll be looking for the book today. It seems
to me that the volumes are sufficiently neat as they stand. It
is, in the last analysis, quite impossible to make a clipping-
book look graceful. It inevitably has a patched and absurd ap-
pearance. I think you are handling the clippings admirably.

Within is my check to cover your last account.

Sincerely yours,

THE AMERICAN MERCURY

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NEW YORK

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June 12th.

Dear Mrs. Lappin:

Your note reaches me just
as I am leaving for Baltimore. I'll
send you volume xxxii tomorrow.

The rest of the clipping from
the *Literatur Zeitung* is probably lost,
but I'll try to find it.

My very best thanks. A check
is within.

H.L.MENCKEN

1524 HOLLINS ST.
BALTIMORE.

August 26, 1930.

Dear Mrs. Lappin:

Thanks very much for your felicitations. I
am starting somewhat late but still find myself full of hope.
Officially, the wedding is to be next week, but actually we
are to be married tomorrow. I'll be back at work by the third
week in September.

The flood of clippings has fallen off a bit,
but I suppose that the news of the actual wedding will renew
it. I see no way save to slap them all in. I have plenty of
blank books, and shall send you more whenever you need them.

September 25th

Dear Mrs. Lappin:-

You now have all of the clippings that accumulated during my absence. Take your time with them. If you need any more books, let me know. The flood is subsiding, and you will receive only small packages hereafter.

H.L.MENCKEN

704 CATHEDRAL ST.
BALTIMORE.

December 30th

Dear Mr. Lappin:-

The clipping book has just come in, apparently delayed in the
mails. My best thanks.

THE AMERICAN MERCURY

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NEW YORK

Cables: KNOPF • NEW YORK

June 15th

Dear Miss Redding:—

Will you please have a copy made of
this, _double-spaced?_ It is impossible to
edit a single-spaced MS.

If you can have it by the time you
come out tomorrow, so much the better.
But if that is inconvenient, Thursday will do

Sincerely yours,

October 6th

Dear Miss Redding:-

Will you please give me one copy of this, double-spaced, by
Thursday evening?

September 9th

Dear Miss Redding:-

Will you please have one copy made of the enclosed?
Please let it be double-spaced. The single-spacing of the original
makes editorial corrections impossible.

I'd like to have the copy, if possible, by Wednesday.

THE AMERICAN MERCURY

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NEW YORK

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Telephones: CIRCLE 7670

November 30th.

Dear Miss Redding:

I am delighted to hear that
you are back in Baltimore. Certainly
you must let some nose and throat man
tackle those tonsils. It is plain
that they have been responsible for
your lumbago.

If you can come out at ten
o'clock on Friday, I'll be delighted to
see you. If you cannot, will you please
send Miss Bushman?