Do You Remember? – The Whimsical Letters of H L Mencken and Phillip Goodman
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- ISBN 9780938420545
- Weight: 950g
- Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 1976
- Publisher: Maryland Historical Society
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing The Smart Set in New York and working on The American Language in his native Baltimore, his best friend, Philip Goodman, a New York advertising man, bon vivant, and fledgling publisher, wrote a letter "reminiscing" about their old German-American neighborhood in the 1880s and 1890s. He invented characters and events and wrote with irony and affection for those better times. Mencken rose instantly to the challenge and wrote a letter in similar vein. For three years the correspondents tried to out-do each other in telling tall stories. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.
