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  <titleInfo>
    <title>H. L. Mencken papers, 1917-1941</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1880-1956</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence (1927-1941, undated) and signed typescript of Mencken's diary (1917) written while serving as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun.  Documents events surrounding the break in diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Germany.  Also includes accounts of conversations and travels with the U.S. ambassador to Germany, James Watson Gerard; travels through Switzerland, France, and Spain; and a voyage from Spain to Havana, Cuba.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, photocopies. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Author and editor.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gerard, James W. (James Watson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1951</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <title>Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837)</title>
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    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <geographic>Baltimore</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <topic>Journalists</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Havana (Cuba)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Switzerland</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
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