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26. HPL to James F. Morton, 10 February 1923 (SL I.207). 27. Twilight of the Idols [1888], in Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ, tr. R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), p.93. 28. SL I.208 (note 26).

29. HPL to Samuel Loveman, [5 January 1924] (SL I.277). Chapter Eleven

1. Kleiner, ‘A Memoir of Lovecraft’, in Lovecraft Remembered, pp. 197–98.

2. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 9 March 1924 (SL I.319–22).

3. Davis, Private Life, p. 18.

4. Ibid.

5. Sonia H. Greene to Lillian D. Clark, 9 February 1924 (AHT).

6. HPL to James F. Morton, 12 March 1924 (SL I.325).

7. Note to Sonia H. Davis, ‘The Psychic Phenominon of Love’ (ms., JHL).

8. ‘Lovecraft on Love’, Arkham Collector No. 8 (Winter 1971): 244.

9. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 22–23 December 1924 (ms., JHL).

10. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 21 March 1924 (SL I.332).

11. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 7 February 1924 (SL I.304).

12. Weinberg, The Weird Tales Story, p. 4.

13. Sonia H. Davis, [‘Autobiography’] (ms., JHL).

14. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, [10 March 1924] (postcard) (ms., JHL).

15. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 1 August 1924 (SL I.337).

16. Ibid.

17. SL I.338 (note 15).

18. Letter of application, 1924 (SL I.xxvii–xxviii).

19. Kleiner, ‘A Memoir of Lovecraft’, pp. 201–02.

20. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 29–30 September 1924 (ms., JHL).

21. Frank Belknap Long, Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975), pp. 80–82.

22. See note 20.

23. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 4–6 November 1924 (ms., JHL).

24. R. Alain Everts, ‘Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex; or, The Sex Life of a Gentleman’, Nyctalops 2, No. 2 (July 1974): 19.

25. Sonia H. Davis, ‘Memories of Lovecraft: I’, in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 275.

26. Ibid., pp. 275–76.

27. See note 24.

28. Davis, Private Life, p. 13.

29. See note 25.

30. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 15 June 1925 (SL II.19).

31. Davis, Private Life, p. 12.

32. HPL to August Derleth, 16 January 1931 (SL III.262). 33. HPL to James F. Morton, 6 May 1924 (SL I.337).

34. Mara Kirk Hart, ‘Walkers in the City: George Willard Kirk and Howard Phillips Lovecraft in New York City, 1924–1926’ (1993), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 224.

35. Long, Dreamer on the Nightside, pp. 157–58.

36. Davis, Private Life, pp. 18–19.

37. Wilfred B. Talman, ‘The Normal Lovecraft’ (1973), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 220.

38. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 1 August 1924 (AHT).

39. See note 20.

40. Hart Crane, Letter to Grace Hart Crane and Elizabeth Belden Hart (14 September 1924), Letters of Hart Crane and His Family, ed. Thomas S. W. Lewis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974), pp. 342–43. 41. Kleiner, ‘A Memoir of Lovecraft’, p. 200.

42. See note 23. Chapter Twelve

1. Sonia H. Davis, Letter to Samuel Loveman (1 January 1948), quoted in Gerry de la Ree, ‘When Sonia Sizzled’, in Wilfred B. Talman et al., The Normal Lovecraft (Saddle River, NJ: Gerry de la Ree, 1973), p. 29.

2. Hart, ‘Walkers in the City’, p. 233.

3. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 15 June 1925 (SL II.18–19).

4. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 2 April 1925 (ms., JHL).

5. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 11 April 1925 (ms., JHL).

6. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 24–27 October 1925 (ms., JHL).

7. See note 5.

8. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 28 May 1925 (SL II.11–12).

9. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 14–15 October 1925 (ms., JHL).

10. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 24–27 October 1925 (ms., JHL).

11. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 21 April 1925 (ms., JHL).

12. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 2 August 1925 (SL II.20).

13. Davis, Private Life, p. 12.

14. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 27 July 1925 (ms., JHL).

15. HPL to August Derleth, 26 November 1926 (ms., SHSW).

16. Davis, Private Life, p. 11.

17. Ibid., p. 20.

18. Ibid., pp. 26–27.

19. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 11 January 1926 (ms., JHL). 20. See Elaine Schechter, Perry Street—Then and Now (New York: Privately printed, 1972).

21. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 13 August 1925 (ms., JHL).

22. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 8 August 1925 (ms., JHL).

23. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 2 December 1925 (ms., JHL). 24. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 28–30 September 1925 (ms., JHL). 25. Ibid.

26. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 14–19 November 1925 (ms., JHL). 27. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 12–13 April 1926 (ms., JHL). 28. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 29–30 September 1924 (ms., JHL). 29. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 5 February 1932 (SL IV.15).

30. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 6 January 1926 (postcard) (ms., JHL). 31. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 11 January 1926 (ms., JHL). 32. HPL to Henry Kuttner, 29 July 1936; Letters to Henry Kuttner (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1990), p. 21.

33. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 6 March 1926 (ms., JHL).