Typeset: MENCKEN, H.L. Typed Letter Signed, to Joel Elias Spingarn ('My dear Spingarn"), thanking for a beautifully bound volume of a work by Henry David Thoreau [published by Troutbeck in 1925, Thoreau's Last Letter]. Written in blank lower margin is a 5-line Autograph Note Signed by Spingarn to "Dear Mr. Chambers" suggesting that he keep the Mencken note since "it refers to your 'beautiful piece of printing'--Troutbeck Leaflet No. 5." 1 page, oblong 8vo, personal stationery; mounted along upper edge to a larger board, vertical folds, faint paper clip stain at right edge. Baltimore, 18 April [1925]