Showing posts with label H. L. Mencken. Show all posts
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Mencken to Van Vechten:
118 quarts of Scotch—and more.

Over on Yale's Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities, H. L. Mencken provides a unique book inscription (and bibulous assessment over a three-year period) to writer-photographer Carl Van Vechten: "118 quarts of Scotch..."