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Bernice B. Mercer collection of Christopher Morley material
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 6210
Abstract
16 items relating to the author Christopher Morley (1890-1957) collected by Bernice B. Mercer (identified in the collection as Mrs. Theodore Mercer). Items in the collection include Alfred P. Lee's Christmas folder [circa 1930] containing Andrew McGill's Idea of Happiness by Christopher Morley; an announcement of an exhibition of first editions of the works of Christopher Morley at Sessler's Bookshop, Philadephia, 1931; a program of Author's Night, sponsored...
Dates:
1931 - 1939
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Emilie Michel Rifkind collection of H.L. Mencken letters
Collection
Identifier: 6197
Abstract
The collection consists of letters written by H.L. Mencken to Louis Michel, Mrs. Louis Michel, and their daughter Emilie Michel Rifkind. Also included are Mencken's wedding announcement and calling card, a clipping from the Baltimore Sun about a piece by Michel, and letters from Princeton University librarian Julian Boyd to Emilie Rifkind about the letters. H.L. Mencken (1880-1956 was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, and cultural critic. Louis Michel, a German immigrant, met...
Dates:
circa 1905-1946
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections