Identifier	mcml003
Title	Letter: H. L. Mencken to Hamilton Owens, June 30, 1929
Transcript	H. L.MENCKEN 1524 HOLLINS ST . BALTIMORE . June 30, 1929 . Dear Hamilton : I have a letter from Tom Mooney saying that the clipping that I sent him of my article of June 17th has been confiscated by the authorities at San Quentin. It appears that convicts are forbidden to receive clippings. Will you please have your excellent and efficient staff send Mooney a copy of the Evening Sun of June 17th with my article marked? It should be a complete copy of the paper and it should go out from the office. In addition, if it is possible, will you please have a copy of the morning Sun containing Duncan Aikman's last article sent to him? I think it was the issue of June 8th. There was another today (Sunday) My apologies for bothering you in this matter. Poor Mooney likes to read such things and getting them to him is difficult. Unless they go out from the paper itself, they are apt to be confiscated. His address is simply: California State Prison, San Quentin, California . Yours , [initialed]HLM
Creator	Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Subject	Baltimore (Md.) California State Prison at San Quentin Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Letters Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942 Newspapers Sun (Baltimore, Md. : 1837)
Description	Letter from H. L. Mencken to Hamilton Owens dated June 1929. Hamilton Owens (1888-1967), distinguished author, editor, and journalist, was then editing the Baltimore Evening Sun, to which Mencken contributed his "Monday Articles" from 1920 to 1938. Thomas J. Mooney (1892-1942) was incarcerated from 1916 to 1939 after he was convicted of the deaths of ten persons when a bomb exploded during the 1916 Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco. The article in question here is "Mooney and the Unions." Mencken's wide range of contacts proved invaluable to him when he was editing the American Mercury from 1924 until 1933.
Publisher (Electronic Version)	Enoch Pratt Free Library
Holding Institution	Enoch Pratt Free Library
Date Original	1929-06-30
Date Digital	2005-05-19
Type	Text
Format	Digital reproduction of 1-page document, dimensions unknown.
Source	H. L. Mencken Room
Relation	Is Part Of the H. L. Mencken Collection Is Part Of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program
Coverage	1921-1930
Rights	This item is owned by the Estate of H. L. Mencken. Permission to publish or reproduce this document or a quotation from this document is required and must be obtained from the H. L. Mencken Estate. For more information, please call 410-396-5430 and ask to be connected to the Mencken Room.