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The Elizabeth Morrison Snyder Collection of H.L. Menckenmencken.jpg (9200 bytes)

Elizabeth Morrison Snyder became a Mencken collector in 1951 when she acquired a substantial collection of letters from H.L. Mencken to Charles Driscoll and a group of inscribed editions of his books. In the two decades which followed, she built a collection of remarkable balance and completeness, with some 250 Mencken letters, 75 inscribed editions of his books, files of The Smart Set and The American Mercury, and an extensive collection of ephemera written and published by Mencken.

Presented to the Library in 1971 and increased since by further gifts from Mrs. Snyder, the collection includes the rare Ventures into Verse of 1903 (two of the 37 known copies, one inscribed to the illustrator, Charles Gordon, and later to Frank Hogan), George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905), A Little Book in C Major (1916), and extensive files of Mencken's newspaper columns.

Special Collections Librarian - Richard W. Clement, 785/864-4334
rclement@ku.edu
Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library,
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7616 
Phone: 785/864-4334 Fax: 785/864-5803