From Baltimore to Bohemia: The Letters of H.L. Mencken and George SterlingSome of Mencken's most interesting letters were written to George Sterling, a pupil of Ambrose Bierce. The correspondence -- which survives nearly intact on both sides -- covers a wealth of subjects, including Mencken's editorship of the Smart Set (1914-23) and American Mercury (1924-26), mutual colleagues (Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis), and most entertainingly, each author's flagrant flouting of Prohibition as well as Sterling's carnal adventures with a variety of women in California. These letters shed a vivid light on the literary, political, social, and cultural temper of the Jazz Age. |
Contents
1914 | 25 |
1916 | 26 |
1918 | 28 |
1919 | 50 |
1920 | 76 |
1921 | 115 |
1922 | 154 |
1923 | 171 |
1925 | 209 |
1926 | 223 |
Undated Letters | 245 |
Mencken on Sterlings Death | 246 |
Notes | 250 |
Bibliography | 273 |
Index | 276 |
1924 | 195 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
730 FIFTH AVENUE A. M. Robertson Abrams alcohol Ambrose Bierce American Mercury American Mercury 730 Angeles anyhow Baltimore beer Bierce's Bigin's Bohemian Club booze bottle Cabell California Carmel Clark Ashton Smith damned Dear George Dear H. L. Dear H. L. June Dear Mencken Dear Sterling Dreiser drink editor enclosed EPFL George Sterling girl give glad grove play GS to HLM GS's H. L. Mencken hay-fever hear hell Here's Hergesheimer HL Mencken HLM to GS HLM's hooch hope Hopper Jack Jane Jinks John July Knopf late letter Lilith literary magazine Mercury 730 FIFTH Nathan never night November NYPL poet poetry prose published reference San Francisco Scheffauer Scotch seems sent Sinclair Smart Set sonnet Sterling's stuff thing Upton Sinclair verse wine wish women write wrote young