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Repository: University of Pennsylvania
Bulk date: 1920s
Date: 1940s
Bulk date: 1930s
Date: 1740s
Repository: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Form/Genre: Autobiographies
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1708-1955
(Bulk: 1923-1955)
Creator:
Weisberger, Siegfried, 1896-1984, Author
Extent: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)
This collection includes material collected by Siegfried Weisbeger (1896-1984), proprietor of the Peabody Book Shop in Baltimore
Maryland and confidante of H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), a noted writer, editor, and social provocateur, famous for his disdain
for common morals and received wisdom. The collection contains correspondence between the two men and other correspondents
of the Peabody Book Shop, manuscripts and published writings by and about Mencken (many of them signed), and autobiographical
writings and poems written by Weisberger.
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