A letter to Charles Green Shaw from H.L. Mencken, in list form. I especially like #3:

My favorite drinks, in order, are: beer in any form, Moselle, Bergundy, Chianti, gin and ginger-beer, and rye whiskey. I use Swedish punch only as a cocktail flavor. I dislike Scotch and seldom drink it. It makes me vaguely uneasy. I also dislike Rhine wine, save the very best. I never have a head-ache from drink. It fetches me by giving me pains of the legs. When I get stewed I go to sleep, even in the presence of womeen and clergymen.

From archivist Liza Kirwin’s Lists. More lists from Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Pablo Picasso, and Eero Saarinen at The Morning News.