Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Anna Melissa Graves Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-015
Abstract
Anna Melissa Graves was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.
Dates:
1919-1953
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records
Collection — Othertype Reel 142.1
Identifier: SCPC-Reel-142.1
Abstract
Holdings in Tamiment Library: about half the records of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice consist of case histories pertaining to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military imprisonment, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportations. One third of the collection consists of office files, administrative reports and correspondence, including extensive fundraising correspondence. The remainder of the collection is made up of...
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Katharine Sergeant White papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M56
Abstract
Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1892. In 1914, White graduated from Bryn Mawr College. She married her first husband, Ernest Angell in 1915, and with him she had two children, Nancy and Roger. After a divorce in 1929, Katharine married her second husband, New Yorker staff writer E. B. White. White's career at The New Yorker began in 1925 and continued until her retirement in 1961. As the first...
Dates:
1928 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1977
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Gardening 1
- Internationalists -- History -- Sources 1
- Legal aid -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peru -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Women pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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