BIB_ID
191707
Accession number
MA 4898
Creator
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
Display Date
1924 June 23.
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Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 p.)
Summary
Declining an article submitted to The American Mercury [which Mencken had founded that year], and explaining why: "The trouble with it is that it takes Gilder too seriously. He was unquestionably a man of some public usefulness, but his chief characteristic was his narrow humorless Puritanism. It is that side in him that we want to accentuate ... For this reason I feel that your excellent article is not for us."
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