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2. HPL spells his maternal grandmother’s first name as ‘Rhoby’, but Robie is given on the central shaft of the Phillips plot at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.

3. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 26 October 1926 (SL II.88).

4. HPL to F. Lee Baldwin, 13 January 1934 (SL IV.344).

5. See Kenneth W. Faig, Jr, ‘Whipple V. Phillips and the Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company’, Owyhee Outpost No. 19 (May 1988): 21–30.

6. HPL to F. Lee Baldwin, 31 January 1934 (SL IV.351).

7. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 1 January 1915 (SL I.6).

8. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (SL I.29).

9. SL I.33–34 (note 8).

10. Clara Hess in August Derleth, ‘Lovecraft’s Sensitivity’ (1949); rpt in Lovecraft Remembered, ed. Peter Cannon (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1998), p. 32.

11. Ibid., pp. 34–35.

12. See Richard D. Squires, Stern Fathers ‘neath the Mould: The Lovecraft Family in Rochester (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1995).

13. Sonia H. Davis, The Private Life of H. P. Lovecraft, ed. S. T. Joshi (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, rev. ed. 1992), p. 7.

14. HPL to Edwin Baird, 3 February 1924 (SL I.296). Chapter Two

1. HPL to Annie E. P. Gamwell, 19 August 1921 (SL I.147). 3. HPL to Bernard Austin Dwyer, 3 March 1927 (SL II.107). 4. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (SL I.32). 5. Henry G. Fairbanks, Louise Imogen Guiney: Laureate of the Lost (Albany,

NY: Magi Books, 1972), p. 2.

6. SL I.32 (note 4).

7. HPL to August Derleth, [January 1930] (SL III.100).

8. SL I.33 (note 4).

9. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (AHT; not in SL).

10. HPL to Edwin Baird, 3 February 1924 (SL I.296).

11. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 1 January 1915 (SL I.6).

12. Quoted by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr, The Parents of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1990), p. 11.

13. M. Eileen McNamara, M.D., ‘Winfield Scott Lovecraft’s Final Illness’, Lovecraft Studies No. 24 (Fall 1991): 14.

14. Winfield Townley Scott, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft’ in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 16. Sarah Susan Lovecraft’s medical records no longer survive, but Scott consulted them around 1944.

15. SL I.6 (note 11).

16. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 29 May 1933 (SL IV.191).

17. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 5 April 1931 (SL III.362).

18. SL I.34 (note 4).

19. Scott, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, p. 11.

20. SL IV.355 (note 2). The same anecdote is found in HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (AHT).

21. SL III.362 (note 17).

22. Faig, Parents, p. 7.

23. SL I.33 (note 4).

24. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 16 January 1932 (SL IV.8).

25. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 16 January 1932 (AHT).

26. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 8 November 1933 (ms., JHL).

27. SL I.34–35 (note 4).

28. HPL to Virgil Finlay, 24 October 1936 (SL V.335).

29. HPL to August Derleth, 9 September 1931 (SL IV.407).

30. SL I.7 (note 11).

31. SL I.33 (note 4).

32. SL I.7 (note 11).

33. SL II.108 (note 3).

34. SL I.36 (note 4).

35. SL II.109 (note 3). Chapter Three

1. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 25 June 1931 (ms., JHL). 2. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 19–31 July 1931 (ms., JHL). 4. Edmund Pearson, Dime Novels (Boston: Little, Brown, 1929), pp. 4f. 5. L. Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft: A Biography (Garden City, NY:

Doubleday, 1975), p. 33.

6. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 7 March 1920 (SL I.110).

7. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (SL I.37).

8. W. Paul Cook, In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1941), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 112.

9. SL IV.355–56 (note 3).

10. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 1 January 1915 (SL I.8).

11. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 25–29 March 1933 (SL IV.172).

12. HPL to August Derleth, 4 March 1932 (SL IV.26).

13. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 5 April 1931 (SL III.368).

14. HPL to Richard F. Searight, 5 March 1935; Letters to Richard F. Searight (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1992), p. 51.

15. J. Vernon Shea, ‘Did Lovecraft Suffer from Chorea?’, Outré No. 5 (May 1977): 30–31.

16. Scott, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, p. 12.

17. SL III.367 (note 13).

18. Davis, Private Life, p. 8.

19. See frontispiece to SL II.

20. SL I.32 (note 7).

21. Frontispiece to Something about Cats and Other Pieces (1949).

22. R. H. Barlow, On Lovecraft and Life (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1992), p. 18.

23. Ms., JHL.

24. SL I.35 (note 7).

25. SL I.29–30 (note 7).

26. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 29 May 1929 (SL II.348).

27. SL I.35 (note 7).

28. Interview of Ethel Phillips Morrish by Paul R. Michaud, August 1977.

29. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 8 November 1933 (ms., JHL).

30. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 10 February 1935 (SL V.104).

31. SL I.36 (note 7).

32. SL I.37 (note 7).