Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Arts and Humanities Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Literature in English, North America

Gettysburg College

Book Gallery

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

Ms – 244: Papers Of George S. Patton Jr., Jujuan K. Johnson Jul 2019

Ms – 244: Papers Of George S. Patton Jr., Jujuan K. Johnson

All Finding Aids

This collection is contained in two series, the first being George S. Patton Jr.’s letters to his Aunt “Nannie” and his mother from both VMI and West Point (1903-1908). The second being George S. Patton Jr.’s book “My Father as I remembered him.”, which contains a biography of his father, George S. Patton, and a brief biography of other family members, including himself up to 1927.

In Patton’s book “My Father as I remembered him,” he gives brief descriptions and stories about his family, starting with the first “Patton” and ending with himself in 1927. The first “Patton” was Robert …


Ms-001: Wilton C. Dinges Collection (H. L. Mencken Collection), Christine M. Ameduri May 2000

Ms-001: Wilton C. Dinges Collection (H. L. Mencken Collection), Christine M. Ameduri

All Finding Aids

The Wilton C. Dinges Collection is arranged into five Series. I. Biographical Information, II. Antoinette Feleky, III. Correspondence, IV. Manuscripts & Published Material and V. Miscellaneous.

The bulk of the collection is correspondence between Mencken and Antoinette Feleky, wife of Charles Feleky, a close friend of Mencken's. Other items include several typed manuscripts, bibliographic information compiled from newspaper and magazine articles about Mencken, family and friends and other miscellaneous.

The library also holds more than 150 volumes of Menckeniana in addition to two scrapbooks (indexed) of photostatic copies of editorials and articles by Mencken that appeared in the Baltimore Evening …