H. P. Lovecraft: Miscellaneous Letters

H. P. Lovecraft:
Miscellaneous Letters

By H.P. Lovecraft
Edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi

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Throughout his life, H. P. Lovecraft corresponded with a wide array of correspondents—in the amateur journalism movement, the world of pulp magazines, and elsewhere. This volume contains small batches of letters to these correspondents. A major inclusion is the surviving correspondence of two round-robin groups, the Kleicomolo and the Gallomo, wherein Lovecraft expatiates on his cosmic philosophy. Also included here are letters to C. M. Eddy and his wife, friends and colleagues in Providence; the few scraps of surviving letters to his future wife, Sonia H. Greene; letters to such pulpsmiths as Seabury Quinn and Carl Jacobi; and a significant tranche of letters to the little-known Robert Hartley Michael, to whom Lovecraft presented an encapsulated autobiography and also elucidated the incantation included in “The Horror at Red Hook.”

This volume also contains letters published in Lovecraft’s lifetime. These include letters he sent on a broad range of topics to the Providence Journal (on astronomy, band concerts, the hollow-earth theory, etc.); his notorious letters to the Munsey magazines attacking the romance stories of Fred Jackson; his debates on science with Orville L. Leach and J. F. Hartmann; and letters to the Haldeman-Julius Weekly on his personal philosophy.

All told, these letters present the full spectrum of Lovecraft’s intellectual and literary interests, affording rare glimpses into his evolving character. All documents have been meticulously edited and annotated by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi.

Introduction (4 pages)
Miscellaneous Letters

To the Kleicomolo (50 pages)
To the Gallomo (68 pages)
To Jonathan E. Hoag (7 pages)
To Henriette Ziegfeld (2 pages)
To John Ravenor Bullen (3 pages)
To Myrta Alice Little (8 pages)
To Victor E. Bacon (2 pages)
To C. M. and Muriel Eddy (21 pages)
To Sonia H. Greene (10 pages)

[Nietzscheism and Realism]
[Lovecraft on Love]

To Harry Houdini (1 page)
To the Homeland Company (1 page)
[Letter Seeking Employment] (3 pages)
To Edgar J. Davis (2 pages)
To George W. Kirk (2 pages)
To Leonard E. Tilden (1 page)
To William Bryant (3 pages)
To Robert Hartley Michael (22 pages)
To W. Chesley Worthington (2 pages)
To William Stanley Braithwaite (2 pages)
To Lee Alexander Stone (2 pages)
To H. Warner Munn (5 pages)
To Earl C. Kelley (1 page)
To Henry George Weiss (13 pages)
To Seabury Quinn (2 pages)
To Carl Swanson (3 pages)
To Carl Jacobi (2 pages)
To Kirk Mashburn (1 page)
With Harold S. Farnese (22 pages)
To Edwin Hadley Smith (2 pages)
To Allan G. Ullman (4 pages)
To Charles D. Hornig (21 pages)
To John H. Birss (3 pages)
To Anthony Pryor (1 page)
To Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (5 pages)
To George W. Macauley (10 pages)
To the Coryciani (28 pages)
To W. G. Bautz (7 pages)
To Ernest A. Edkins (3 pages)
To Alvin Earl Perry (5 pages)
To Julius Schwartz (2 pages)
To Forrest J Ackerman (2 pages)
To Mrs. H. H. Hughes (6 pages)
To James Blish and William Miller, Jr. (2 pages)
To Earl Peirce, Jr. (4 pages)
To Robert A. W. Lowndes (12 pages)
To Ben Abramson (3 pages)
To Arthur Widner (3 pages)

Published Letters (131 pages)

Long Distance Predictions: Weather Guessers Willing to Take Any Sort of Chances and Trust to Providence
To the Providence Sunday Journal

No Transit of Mars
The Earth Not Hollow
Letters between H. P. Lovecraft and Orville L. Leach

About the Vacuum
Heat and Radiant Energy
Scientists at War
Vacuums, Wave Lengths, Etc.
Holes in the Ether
Waves in the Ether
Matter the Deficiency of Mass

Venus and the Public Eye
Seats for Park Concerts

To the Scientific American

Trans-Neptunian Planets

To the New-York Tribune

The English Language

Letters to the Munsey Magazines

[A Few Lines about “Fishhead”]
Objects to Jackson
Ad Criticos

Liber Primus
Liber Secundus

Correction for Lovecraft
For England and the All-Story
To the All-Story
Letters between H. P. Lovecraft and J. F. Hartmann

Astrology and the European War
Science versus Charlatanry
[Letter to the Editor]
The Falsity of Astrology
Astrology and the Future
The Science of Astrology
Delavan’s Comet and Astrology
A Defense of Astrology
The Fall of Astrology
[Isaac Bickerstaffe’s Reply]

To Gavin T. McColl
To Charles W. Smith
To the Bureau of Critics
To the Omaha World-Herald/Daily Bee
To John Milton Heins
To the Board of Executive Judges, NAPA
To the Members of N.A.P.A
To the Gothamite
To the Ohio Amateur Journalists’ Club
To the Haldeman-Julius Weekly
To Edna Hyde
To the Editor of the Providence Sunday Journal

Asks Preservation of Old Buildings
The Old Brick Row
Save the Old Brick Row

To Dragnet
To “The Sideshow”
To the Exeter [NH] News-Letter
To Vincent B. Haggerty
Report of the Executive Judges
To the Convention of the National Amateur Press Association, 22 June 1936

Addenda (16 pages)

Leaf from letter to Elizabeth Toldridge
To Clark Ashton Smith
To Unknown
To Wilfred B. Talman
To Emil Petaja
To Howard Wandrei

Appendix (2 pages)

Elegy, by Harold Farnese

Sources for Lovecraft’s Letters (3 pages)
Lovecraft’s Published Letters (3 pages)
Glossary of Frequently Mentioned Names (7 pages)
Bibliography (15 pages)
Index (15 pages)

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H. P. Lovecraft: Miscellaneous Letters. By H. P. Lovecraft, edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2022; ISBN 978-1-61498-373-6; softcover, 600 pages.

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