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33. See HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 18 September 1932 (SL IV.67) for titles; HPL to Marion F. Bonner, 26 April 1936 (SL V.237) for dates. In this latter letter the title of the second treatise is given as Ross’s Explorations.

34. C. L. Moore to HPL, 6 October 1936 (ms., JHL): ‘Thank you for the privilege of reading that early publication of the Royal Atlas Company, “Wilks’ Exploration” [sic] … I am returning “Wilks’ Exploration” with a sigh …’ The Royal Atlas Company must have been yet another of Lovecraft’s juvenile imprints. Chapter Four

1. I am grateful to Sam Moskowitz for information on the hectograph.

2. ‘Autobiography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’ (written in 1934), Boys’ Herald 71, No. 1 (October 1941): 7.

3. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (SL I.38).

4. HPL to Duane W. Rimel, 29 March 1934 (SL IV.398).

5. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 20 January 1916 (SL I.19).

6. SL I.39 (note 3).

7. HPL to Helen Sully, 4 December 1935 (ms., JHL).

8. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (AHT).

9. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 2 February 1916 (SL I.20).

10. HPL to the Gallomo, [January] 1920 (SL I.104–5).

11. HPL to August Derleth, 31 December 1930 (SL III.246).

12. Stuart J. Coleman to Winfield Townley Scott, 30 December [1943] (ms., JHL).

13. Clara Hess in August Derleth, ‘Lovecraft’s Sensitivity’; quoted in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 34.

14. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 4 February 1934 (SL IV.357).

15. Kenneth W. Faig, Jr, ‘Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Early Years 1890–1914’, Nyctalops 2, No. 1 (April 1973): 14n.16, citing probate records.

16. SL IV.358–59 (note 14).

17. SL I.39 (note 3).

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

19. SL I.30 (note 3).

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

21. The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy, 30 July 1905.

22. HPL to Alfred Galpin, 29 August 1918 (ms., JHL; published in part in SL I.75).

23. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 15 May 1918 (SL I.60).

24. HPL to Annie E. P. Gamwell, 19 Augut 1921 (SL I.146).

25. Ibid.

26. See note 20.

27. See The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy, April 1907; HPL to Samuel Loveman, [c. 5 January 1924]; Letters to Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1994), p. 23.

28. SL I.39 (note 3).

29. SL I.38 (note 3).

30. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (AHT).

31. See note 20.

32. SL IV.360 (note 14).

33. SL IV.170 (note 18).

34. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 5 April 1931 (SL III.367).

35. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 10 April 1934 (ms., JHL).

36. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, [6 April 1935] (SL V.140).

37. HPL to Robert Bloch, 1 June 1933; Letters to Robert Bloch (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1993), p. 15.

38. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 14–19 November 1925 (ms., JHL). 39. SL I.40 (note 3).

40. SL V.141 (note 36).

41. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 7 March 1920 (SL I.110–11). 42. HPL to Alfred Galpin, 21 August 1918 (SL I.70). Chapter Five

1. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 1 January 1915 (SL I.9).

2. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 16 November 1916 (SL I.40–41).

3. HPL to Bernard Austin Dwyer, 3 March 1927 (SL II.110).

4. HPL to Helen Sully, 4 December 1935 (ms., JHL).

5. Will Murray, ‘An Interview with Harry Brobst’, Lovecraft Studies Nos 22/23 (fall 1990): 34.

6. Harold W. Munro, ‘Lovecraft, My Childhood Friend’ (1983), in Lovecraft Remembered, pp. 70–71.

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

8. R. Alain Everts, ‘Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex’, Nyctalops 2, No. 2 (July 1974): 19.

9. SL I.9 (note 1).

10. SL I.31 (note 2).

11. HPL to Alfred Galpin, 19 August 1918 (SL I.75).

12. David H. Keller, ‘Lovecraft’s Astronomical Notebook’, Lovecraft Collector No. 3 (October 1949): 1–4.

13. Keller has transcribed ‘Providence Evening Journal’, but this is evidently his error.

14. HPL to Jonquil Leiber, 29 November 1936 (SL V.363).

15. Scott, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, p. 15.

16. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 5 April 1931 (SL III.367).

17. Faig, Parents, p. 28.

18. Quoted in Derleth, ‘Lovecraft’s Sensitivity’, in Lovecraft Remembered, pp. 32, 34.

19. HPL to Duane W. Rimel, 13 April 1934 (ms., JHL).

20. HPL to Sarah Susan Lovecraft, 24 February 1921 (SL I.123).

21. Sonia H. Davis, ‘Memories of Lovecraft: I’ (1969), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 276.

22. Lovecraft Remembered, p. 34.

23. Lovecraft Remembered, p. 71.

24. See the photograph published with Kenneth W. Faig, Jr, ‘The Early Years’: 11.

25. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 4 December 1918 (SL I.78).

26. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 23 July 1936 (SL V.282).

27. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 8 February 1922 (AHT).

28. Scott, p. 13.

29. SL I.41 (note 2).

30. SL II.110 (note 3).

31. SL I.41 (note 2).

32. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 31 March 1932 (ms., JHL).