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Lovecraft (Howard P.) collection
Formal title:
Howard P. Lovecraft collection
Extent:
10 linear feet
Date range:
1880-1984
Abstract:
Personal and literary correspondence both by and to Lovecraft; manuscript and typescript drafts of fiction, non-fiction, poems, plays and drawings by Lovecraft. Correspondence between friends, family, and associates of Lovecraft. Subjects include horror fiction, New England antiquities, and the amateur press. Significant correspondents include Robert H. Barlow, Robert Bloch, W. Paul Cook, August Derleth, Ernest A. Edkins, Sonia H. Greene Davis (Lovecraft's wife), Frank Belknap Long, Jr., E. Hoffman Price, Clark Ashton Smith, and Donald Wandrei among many others. The collection also includes a small selection of photographs of Lovecraft, friends and associates and objects owned by Lovecraft.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.Lovecraft
Inventory:
Item Box 13 Folder 6 Lovecraft, Howard P. to Talman, Wilfred B
Thanks Talman for sending article on the Schenck House in Flatbush. Includes a list of Saints' Days for dating letters and discusses potential design of his bookplate. "No haste about the bookplate business - & the simple door without the scene will be perfectly all right for me" [includes drawing of doorway]. Closes with "P.S. O'Brien gave me an 18-line biography in Best Short Stories of 1928 , & I am listed among third-raters in O Henry Memorial Prize Stories . The Not at Night anthology [Macy-Macius] edited by Herbert Asbury contains my Red Hook & two tales of Belknap's. A new weird anthology to be published by the Macaulay Co. will have my [Cthulhu] as well as tales by Munn & Belknap, & possibly Wandrei" 		1929 Jan 15
Item Box 14 Folder 4 Lovecraft, Howard P. to Talman, Wilfred B
Dated "Saturn's Day" only Year and month inferred from contents. December 6, 13, 20 and 27 were Saturdays. Thanks WBT for sending "the proofreading data. I have copied the whole business ... I shall practice this on the next proofs I have to read, & fancy the markings will get fixed in my aged head sooner or later." JF Morton is currently in Columbia, SC, and FB Long, Jr. has just been to Quebec. Signed: "Father O'Casey" 		1930 [Dec 6?]
Item Box 14 Folder 8 Lovecraft, Howard P. to Toldridge, Elizabeth
Dated "Octr 9" only. Year inferred from contents "I combined sightseeing with business on the Hartford trip, for I had never seen central Connecticut before ... The book I am handling is a long history of Dartmouth College, & I may have to make a short trip to Brattleboro Vt. before it goes to press" .cs on [see also HPL to WB Talman, 1931 Oct 25 for additional mention of this history of Dartmouth College]. .cs off [this book was the 2-volume History of Dartmouth College [Hanover, NH, 1932] by Leon Burr Richardson] 		1931 Oct 9
Item Box 15 Folder 9 Lovecraft, Howard P. to Wandrei, Donald
Postcard of "Business section of Boston". Also signed by W. Paul Cook as "Culinarius" 		1933 Sep [2]
 

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