by S. T. Joshi
78. HPL to AD, 7 November 1926; Essential Solitude, 1.48.
79. HPL to AD, 2 March [1927]; Essential Solitude, 1.72.
80. HPL to AD, 11 October 1926; Essential Solitude, 1.40.
81. HPL to LDC, [5 June 1928] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
82. HPL to LDC, [27 June 1928] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
83. HPL to DW, 29 February 1928; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 208.
84. HPL to AD, 20 June 1930; Essential Solitude, 1.267.
85. HPL to Wilfred B. Talman, 1 June 1928 (SL 2.243).
86. HPL to LDC, 25 June 1928 (ms., JHL).
87. HPL to LDC, 15 June 1928 (ms., JHL).
88. HPL to DW, [20 January 1928]; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 202.
89. HPL to FBL, [December 1927] (SL 2.202).
90. HPL to FBL, 24 September 1927 (SL 2.171–72).
91. Long, “The Space-Eaters,” in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, ed. AD (rev. ed. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1990), 88–89.
92. HPL to Bernard Austin Dwyer, [November 1927] (SL 2.189).
93. Virgil, The Poems of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by James Rhoades (London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1921), 151.
94. SL 2.191 (note 92).
95. SL 2.197 (note 92).
96. HPL to DW, 24 November 1927 (SL 2.200).
97. “‘The Thing in the Moonlight’: A Hoax Revealed,” CoC No. 53 (Candlemas 1988): 12–13.
98. HPL to CAS, 27 November 1927 (SL 2.201).
99. HPL to DW, [27 September 1927]; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 166.
100. HPL to MWM, 17 December 1914 (AHT).
101. See further my essay, “Lovecraft, Regner Lodbrog, and Olaus Wormius” (CoC, Eastertide 1995), in Primal Sources, 145–53.
102. SL 2.207 (note 89).
103. “Bob Davis Recalls: New Light on the Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce,” New York Sun (17 November 1927): 6. For more on Danziger/de Castro, including his relations with HPL, see Chris Powell, “The Revised Adolphe Danziger de Castro,” LS No. 36 (Spring 1997): 18–25.
104. Adolphe de Castro to HPL, 20 November 1927 (ms., JHL).
105. Adolphe de Castro to HPL, 5 December 1927 (ms., JHL).
106. HPL to LDC, 23 May 1928 (ms., JHL).
107. SL 2.208 (note 89).
108. SL 2.207 (note 89).
109. Adolphe de Castro to HPL, 1 April 1928 (ms., JHL).
110. HPL to DW, 5 April [1928]; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 217.
111. Adolphe de Castro to HPL, 8 December 1927 (ms., JHL).
112. HPL to LDC, 23 May 1928 (ms., JHL).
113. Lewis Mumford, review of Portrait of Ambrose Bierce, New York Herald Tribune Books (24 March 1929): 1.
114. Napier Wilt, review of Portrait of Ambrose Bierce, New Republic (8 May 1929): 338.
115. Carey McWilliams, review of Portrait of Ambrose Bierce, New York Evening Post (30 March 1929): 10M.
116. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 22 December 1927 (SL 2.212). The printed text reads “can” for “cane.” Neither sounds very pleasant if broken over one’s head.
117. A complete list of de Castro’s books is as follows: The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (with Ambrose Bierce) (Chicago: F. J. Schulte, 1892); In the Confessional and the Following (New York & San Francisco: Western Authors’ Publishing Association, 1893); A Man, a Woman, and a Million (London: Sands & Co., 1902); Jewish Forerunners of Christianity (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1903; rpt. 1926 as Jesus Lived: Hebrew Evidences of His Existence and the Rabbis Who Believed in Him [London: John Murray, 1904]); Children of Fate: A Story of Passion (New York: Brentano’s, 1905); After the Confession and Other Verses (New York: Adolphe Danziger, 1908; London: Henry J. Drane, 1908); Helen Polska’s Lover; or, The Merchant Prince (New York: Adolphe Danziger, 1909; London: Henry J. Drane, 1909); In the Garden of Abdullah and Other Poems (Los Angeles: Western Authors Publishing Association, 1916); The World Crucified: A Photoplay of the Mundane Activity of Christ in Six Apotheoses (Los Angeles: Western Authors Publishing Association, 1921); Portrait of Ambrose Bierce (New York: Century Co., 1929); The Painter’s Dream (Los Angeles: Western Authors’ Association, 1940); The Hybrid Prince of Egypt; Plus, Song of the Arabian Desert (Los Angeles: Western Authors Association, 1950); Die Werte des Lebens: Beitrag zur Ethik des Ramban, Maimonides (n.d.). At the end of Jewish Forerunners de Castro lists several monographs as apparently published, although he gives no dates or publishers (Labor Unions and Strikes in Ancient Rome, The Position of Laboring Men among the Ancient Hebrews, Jesus, the Pharisee, Oriental Aphorisms, Two Great Jews); but I can find no evidence that these were actually published.
118. Zealia Bishop, “H. Lovecraft: A Pupil’s View,” in Lovecraft Remembered, 265.
119. HPL to JFM, 23 May 1927 (SL 2.129).
120. HPL to AD, 6 October [1929]; Essential Solitude, 1.222.
121. HPL to Zealia Bishop, 9 March 1928 (SL 2.232).
122. HPL to Zealia Bishop, 28 August 1929 (SL 3.15).
123. HPL to Zealia Bishop, 1 May 1928 (SL 2.238).
Chapter 19: Fanlights and Georgian Steeples
1. Davis, Private Life, 21.
2. HPL to AD, 2 May 1928; Essential Solitude, 1.141.
3. HPL to DW, [7 May 1928] (postcard); Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 219.
4. HPL to JFM, 10 May 1928 (SL 2.239).
5. HPL to LDC, 29–30 April 1928 (ms., JHL).
6. Davis, Private Life, 21.
7. “Observations on Several Parts of America” (1928).
8. See note 5.
9. HPL to LDC, 14 May 1928 (ms., JHL).
10. Weird Tales 12, No. 2 (August 1928): 281.
11. HPL to DW, 23 November 1928; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 231.
12. See note 5.
13. HPL to LDC, [3 May 1928] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
14. HPL to RHB, 30 September 1936 (ms., JHL); O Fortunate Floridian, 362.
15. HPL to LDC, [12 June 1928] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
16. HPL to Zealia Bishop, 28 July 1928 (SL 2.245). The article is an unsigned item, “Literary Persons Meet in Guilford,” Brattleboro Daily Reformer (18 June 1928): 1.
17. Vrest Orton, “A Weird Writer Is in Our Midst,” Brattleboro Daily Reformer (16 June 1928): 2. The final paragraph, as quoted here, was omitted in Lovecraft Remembered, 409. The article was discovered by Donald R. Burleson.
18. HPL to LDC, 24 June 1924 (postcard) (ms., JHL).
19. HPL to LDC, 19 June 1928 (ms., JHL).
20. HPL to LDC, 1 July 1928 (ms., JHL).
21. HPL to LDC, 11 July 1928 (ms., JHL).
22. See note 7.
23. Ibid.
24. HPL to AD, 21 November [1930]; Essential Solitude, 1.290.
25. Letter to Edwin Baird, [c. October 1923]; Weird Tales (March 1924).
26. “The Mythic Hero Archetype in ‘The Dunwich Horror,’” LS No. 4 (Spring 1981): 3–9.
27. HPL to AD, [27 September 1928]; Essential Solitude, 1.158.
28. HPL to LDC, 1 July 1928 (ms., JHL).
29. See Burleson, “Humour beneath Horror: Some Sources for ‘The Dunwich Horror’ and ‘The Whisperer in Darkness,’” LS No. 2 (Spring 1980): 5–15.
30. See W. Paul Cook, In Memoriam, in Lovecraft Remembered, 129; Burleson, “Humour beneath Horror.”
31. HPL to CAS, 31 August 1928 (SL 2.246).
32. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 21 November 1933 (SL 4.322).
33. HPL to MWM, 19 January [1931] (AHT).
34. MWM to HPL, 3 August 1938 (ms., JHL).
35. MWM to HPL, 29 January 1931 (ms., JHL).
36. HPL to AD, [November 1928]; Essential Solitude, 1.166.
37. T. Everett Harré, “Introduction” to Beware After Dark! (New York: Macaulay, 1929), 11.
38. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 15 February 1929 (SL 2.260).
39. HPL to Carl F. Strauch, [5 November 1931], Lovecraft Annual 4 (2010): 55.
40. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 1 July [1929] (ms., JHL).
41. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge,
8 March 1929 (SL 2.315); “any” printed as “my” in SL.
42. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 20 November 1928 (ms., JHL).
43. HPL to DW, 12 September 1929; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 243–44.
44. HPL to JFM, 30 July 1929 (SL 3.10).
45. HPL to MWM, 4 August 1927 (ms., JHL). The recipient of the letter has until recently been thought to have been Alfred Galpin.
46. HPL to Wilfred B. Talman, [18 August 1929] (postcard); in The Normal Lovecraft, 10.
47. Davis, Private Life, 21.
48. Koki, 209–10.
49. See Nelson Manfred Blake, The Road to Reno: A History of Divorce in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1962), 189–202.
50. HPL to MWM, [2 July] 1929 (SL 3.5–6).
51. HPL to LDC, 5 April [1929] (ms., JHL).
52. HPL to LDC, 12 April 1929 (ms., JHL).
53. Ibid.
54. HPL to LDC, 30 April 1929 (ms., JHL).
55. HPL to LDC, 2 May 1929 (ms., JHL).
56. Ibid.
57. HPL to LDC, 3–4 May 1929 (ms., JHL).
58. HPL to LDC, 6 May 1929 (ms., JHL).
59. “Travels in the Provinces of America” (1929).
60. Ibid.
61. HPL to LDC, [11 May 1929] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
62. Appropriately enough, the Lovecraft scholar Robert H. Waugh lived on Huguenot Street for many years.
63. HPL to LDC, 13–14 May [1929] (ms., JHL).
64. HPL to LDC, 14–15 May 1929 (ms., JHL).
65. HPL to LDC, [15 May 1929] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
66. HPL to LDC, [17 August 1929] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
67. HPL to MWM, 1 September 1929 (SL 3.19).
68. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, [1 July 1929] and 16 September 1929 (mss., JHL).
69. HPL to AD, 8 July 1929; Essential Solitude, 1.200.
70. See “Travels in the Provinces of America.”
71. HPL to REH, 14 August 1930 (SL 3.166).
72. HPL to FBL, 3 November 1930 (SL 3.204).
73. HPL to Emil Petaja, 31 May 1935 (SL 5.173).
74. Robert M. Price, “Lost Revisions?,” CoC No. 17 (Hallowmass 1983): 42.
75. HPL to AD, [17 November 1929]; Essential Solitude, 1.230.
76. HPL to the Editor of the Sunday Journal, 5 October 1926 (SL 2.73).
77. John Hutchins Cady, The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence 1636–1950 (Providence, RI: The Book Shop, 1957), 239–40.
78. HPL to AD, [mid-January 1930]; Essential Solitude, 1.244.
79. See HPL to JFM, 30 July 1929 (SL 3.11).
80. HPL to JFM, 6 December 1929 (SL 3.90).
81. HPL to LDC, [6 May 1929] (postcards) (ms., JHL).
82. B. K. Hart, The Sideshow, ed. Philomela Hart (Providence: Roger Williams Press, 1941), 56–58.
83. Winfield Townley Scott, “A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet” (1945), in Joshi, Four Decades of Criticism, 213.
84. HPL to AD, [February 1930]; Essential Solitude, 1.249.
85. HPL to JFM, 30 October 1929 (SL 3.55).
86. HPL to FBL, [November 1927] (SL 2.186).
87. HPL to JFM, [12 March 1930] (SL 3.128).
88. HPL to AD, [early January 1930]; Essential Solitude, 1.242.
89. HPL to RHB, 13 June 1936; O Fortunate Floridian, 342.
90. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, [January 1930] (SL 3.116).
91. HPL to Zealia Bishop, 26 January 1930 (SL 3.114–15).
92. William Bolitho, “Pulp Magazines,” New York World (4 January 1930): 11.
93. HPL to AD, [mid-January 1930]; Essential Solitude, 1.244.
94. RHB, ms. note on the T.Ms. of “The Mound” (JHL).
95. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 20 December 1929 (SL 3.97).
96. HPL to Woodburn Harris, 25 February–1 March 1929 (SL 2.309).
97. HPL to AD, [late February 1930]; Essential Solitude, 1.251.
98. Zealia Bishop, “H. Lovecraft: A Pupil’s View,” in Lovecraft Remembered, 271.
99. Long, Dreamer on the Nightside, xiii–xiv.
100. FBL to HPL, [c. 19 March 1930] (ms., JHL).
101. HPL to RHB, 26 June 1934; O Fortunate Floridian, 143.
102. HPL to FBL, 17 October 1930 (SL 3.187).
103. HPL to FBL, [14–16 March 1930] (SL 3.130).
104. HPL to Woodburn Harris, 9 November 1929 (SL 3.58).
105. HPL to LDC, 28 April 1930 (ms., JHL).
106. HPL to AD, [29 April 1930] (postcard); Essential Solitude, 1.261.
107. HPL to LDC, 13–14 May 1930 (ms., JHL).
108. Wandrei, “Lovecraft in Providence,” in Lovecraft Remembered, 309.
109. See note 107.
110. HPL to JFM, 15 May 1930 (SL 3.150).
111. HPL to DW, 21 April 1927; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 89.
112. HPL to RHB, [24 May 1935], O Fortunate Floridian, 276; HPL to CAS, [6 August 1930] (ms., JHL).
113. [Notes to “Medusa’s Coil”].
114. HPL to FBL, [November 1930] (AHT).
115. HPL to LDC, 20–21 May 1930 (ms., JHL).
116. HPL to LDC, 24–26 May 1930 (ms., JHL).
117. HPL to LDC, 21–22 May 1930 (ms., JHL).
118. See note 116.
119. Hart Crane, “The Tunnel” (ll. 79–82), section VII of The Bridge (1930); The Poems of Hart Crane (New York: Liveright, 1986), 99.
120. HPL to LDC, 11 June 1930 (ms., JHL).
121. HPL to AD, [mid-July 1930]; Essential Solitude, 1.272.
122. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, [c. 3 September 1930] (SL 3.164).
123. HPL to JFM, 24 October 1930 (SL 3.197).
124. HPL to JFM, [29 December 1930] (SL 3.249); HPL to JFM, 18 January 1931 (SL 3.266).
125. Steven J. Mariconda, “Tightening the Coil: The Revision of ‘The Whisperer in Darkness,’” LS No. 32 (Spring 1995): 12–17.
126. HPL to AD, [4 November 1927]; Essential Solitude, 1.113.
127. HPL to LDC, [12 June 1928] (ms., JHL).
128. HPL to FBL, 14 March 1930 (SL 3.130).
129. HPL to JFM, [15 March 1930] (AHT).
130. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 1 April 1930 (SL 3.136).
131. Long, “Some Random Memories of H. L.,” in Lovecraft Remembered, 186.
132. HPL to AD, 7 June 1930; Essential Solitude, 1.265.
Chapter 20: Non-Supernatural Cosmic Art
1. HPL to JFM, 30 October 1929 (SL 3.46).
2. Quoted in Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957), 104.
3. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 24 April 1930 (SL 3.146).
4. Scepticism and Animal Faith (New York: Scribner’s, 1923), vii.
5. John Passmore, A Hundred Years of Philosophy (1957; 2nd ed. 1966; rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), 228.
6. HPL to FBL, 20 February 1929 (SL 2.265).
7. Ibid. (SL 2.261).
8. Ibid. (SL 2.266–67).
9. HPL to FBL, 22 November 1930 (SL 3.228).
10. Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948), 23.
11. HPL to JFM, 30 October 1929 (SL 3.53).
12. HPL to FBL, 22 November 1930 (SL 3.226).
13. HPL to MWM, 3 August 1931 (SL 3.390–91).
14. SL 3.39 (note 11).
15. HPL to FBL, [April 1928] (SL 2.234).
16. HPL to AD, 21 November 1930 (SL 3.222).
17. HPL to JFM, 6 November 1930 (SL 3.208).
18. HPL to AD, 25 December 1930 (SL 3.244).
19. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 10 June 1929 (SL 2.356–57).
20. SL 3.244 (note 18).
21. HPL to JFM, [January 1931] (SL 3.253).
22. HPL to Woodburn Harris, 9 November 1929 (SL 3.78).
23. Ibid. (SL 3.58–59).
24. HPL to AD, 26 March 1927 (SL 2.120).
25. HPL to JFM, 19 October 1929 (SL 3.32).
26. HPL to Woodburn Harris, 25 February–1 March 1929 (SL 2.305).
27. HPL to AD, 5 October 1928; Essential
Solitude, 1.160.
28. HPL to LDC, 4–6 November 1924; Letters from New York, 86.
29. See note 27.
30. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 3 September 1929 (SL 3.20).
31. Louis Berman, The Glands Regulating Personality (New York: Macmillan, 1921 [rev. ed. 1928]), 23.
32. HPL to Woodburn Harris, 25 February–1 March 1929 (SL 2.298).
33. HPL to FBL, 22 February 1931 (SL 3.293–96).
34. HPL to AD, 20 November 1931 (SL 3.434).
35. “Behind the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic in 1930,” LS No. 14 (Spring 1987): 3–9.
36. HPL to FBL, 17 October 1930 (SL 3.186–87).
37. HPL to CAS, 17 October 1930 (SL 3.193).
38. Fritz Leiber, “A Literary Copernicus” (1949), in Joshi, Four Decades, 57.
39. “Demythologizing Cthulhu,” in H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.
40. CAS to HPL, [c. mid-December 1930]; Letters to H. P. Lovecraft, 23.
41. Jules Zanger, “Poe’s Endless Voyage: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Papers on Language and Literature 22, No. 3 (Summer 1986): 282.
42. HPL to AD, 24 March [1931]; Essential Solitude, 1.325.
43. HPL to JVS, 7 August 1931 (SL 3.395).
44. HPL to DW, 8 March 1932; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 301.
45. HPL to DW, [22 October 1927]; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 174.
46. HPL to AD, [late March? 1931]; Essential Solitude, 1.327.
47. HPL to LDC, 16 July 1931 (ms., JHL).
48. SL 3.395–96 (note 43).
49. HPL to AD, 16 April 1931; Essential Solitude, 1.329–30.
50. HPL to AD, 9 May 1931; Essential Solitude, 1.334.
51. HPL to AD, [5 June 1929]; Essential Solitude, 1.195.
52. HPL to AD, 4 March 1932; Essential Solitude, 2.460–61.
53. HPL to CAS, [20 November 1931] (SL 3.435).
54. HPL to DW, [27 November 1931]; Mysteries of Time and Spirit, 291.
55. See ch. 12, note 25.
56. HPL to FBL, 17 October 1930 (SL 3.187).
57. HPL to Henry Kuttner, 16 April 1936 (SL 5.236).
58. HPL to AD, 2 April [1928]; Essential Solitude, 1.140.
59. HPL to JFM, 19 October 1929 (SL 3.31).
60. HPL to AD, 10 December 1931; Essential Solitude, 1.419–20.
61. “Lovecraft and Strange Tales,” CoC No. 74 (Lammas 1990): 3–11.
62. HPL to AD, 23 December 1931; Essential Solitude, 1.429.
63. HPL to AD, 21 January 1932; Essential Solitude,2.442–43.