Editing H. L. Mencken (section)

==Memorials==

===Home===
Mencken's home at 1524 Hollins Street in [[Baltimore]]'s [[Union Square, Baltimore|Union Square]] neighborhood, where he lived for 67 years, was bequeathed to the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore]] on the death of his younger brother, August, in 1967. The City of Baltimore acquired the property in 1983, and the [[H. L. Mencken House]] became part of the City Life Museums. It has been closed to general admission since 1997, but is opened for special events and group visits by arrangement.

===Papers===
Shortly after [[World War&nbsp;II]], Mencken expressed his intention of bequeathing his books and papers to Baltimore's [[Enoch Pratt Free Library]]. At his death, it was in possession of most of the present large collection. As a result, his papers as well as much of his personal library, which includes many books inscribed by major authors, are held in the Library's Central Branch on Cathedral Street in Baltimore. The original third floor ''H.&nbsp;L. Mencken Room and Collection'' housing this collection was dedicated on April 17, 1956.<ref name="schmidt87">{{Cite news |last=Schmidt |first=John C. |date=April 15, 1956 |title=The Library's Mencken Room |page=87 |work=The Baltimore Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116080302/the-librarys-mencken-room/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109034406/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116080302/the-librarys-mencken-room/ |archive-date=January 9, 2023 |issn=1930-8965 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The new Mencken Room, on the first floor of the Library's Annex, was opened in November 2003.

The collection contains Mencken's typescripts, newspaper and magazine contributions, published books, family documents and memorabilia, clipping books, large collection of presentation volumes, file of correspondence with prominent Marylanders, and the extensive material he collected while he was preparing ''[[The American Language]]''.<ref name="schmidt87" />

Other Mencken related collections of note are at [[Dartmouth College]], [[Harvard University]], [[Princeton University]], [[Johns Hopkins University]], and [[Yale University]]. In 2007, Johns Hopkins acquired "nearly 6,000 books, photographs and letters by and about Mencken" from "the estate of an Ohio accountant".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Staff |year=2009 |title=Books Mencken Collection |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A2-8a283eaa-146f-4b2f-852d-6e61f2d0fe05.html |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910044830/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A2-8a283eaa-146f-4b2f-852d-6e61f2d0fe05.html |archive-date=September 10, 2016}}</ref>

The Sara Haardt Mencken collection at [[Goucher College]] includes letters exchanged between Haardt and Mencken and condolences written after her death. Some of Mencken's vast literary correspondence is held at the [[New York Public Library]]. "Gift of HL Mencken 1929" is stamped on ''[[The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]]'', Luce 1906 edition of [[William Blake]], which shows up from the Library of Congress online version for reading. Mencken's letters to Louise (Lou) Wylie, a reporter and feature writer for New Orleans's ''[[The Times-Picayune]]'' newspaper, are archived at [[Loyola University New Orleans]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=H. L. Mencken Letters Finding Aid |url=http://library.loyno.edu/assets/handouts/archives/HL_Mencken_papers.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906015515/http://library.loyno.edu/assets/handouts/archives/HL_Mencken_papers.pdf |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |website=Special Collections & Archives, J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans}}</ref>