May 2, 1941
Mr. August Derleth
Mr. Donald Wandrei
Sauk City, Wisconsin
Dear Messrs Derleth and Wandrei:


The undersigned hereby grant you a free-hand to further publication of
the work of the late H. P. Lovecraft, and also grant you to you the earnings from that work to the
amount of your expenditures, and also granting you the right to publish H. P. Lovecraft's work, to
receive royalties, sell second serial rights, and, if necessary, first serial rights in connection
with such publication, to the amount of the expenses incurred in connection with such
publication.
Yours very
truly,
Ethel P. Morrish Edna W. Lewis |
[An Acrobat PDF is available on Chris J. Karr’s “The Black Seas of
Copyright”.]