A Dreamer & A Visionary; H.P. Lovecraft in His Time

34. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 27 March 1926 (ms., JHL). Chapter Thirteen

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

2. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 14–19 November 1925 (ms., JHL).

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

4. Scott, p. 18. The essay first appeared in Marginalia (1944). In his copy of the book (now owned by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr), Benjamin Crocker Clough, a reviewer for the Providence Journal, has written: ‘So he [Loveman] told me, and I told WTS. “Phial” I’m not sure of.’

5. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 22–23 December 1925 (ms., JHL).

6. Scott, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, p. 18.

7. Long, Dreamer on the Nightside, p. 167.

8. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 29 March 1926 (ms., JHL).

9. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 1 April 1926 (ms., JHL).

10. Davis, Private Life, pp. 14, 20.

11. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, [2 July] 1929 (SL III.5, 8).

12. Davis, Private Life, p. 11.

13. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 1 May 1926 (SL II.46–47).

14. Cook, In Memoriam, in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 116.

15. Cook, In Memoriam, pp. 116–17.

16. HPL to James F. Morton, 16 May 1926 (SL II.50).

17. Steven J. Mariconda, ‘On the Emergence of “Cthulhu”’, in On the Emergence of ‘Cthulhu’, p. 59 (citing the New York Times, 1 March 1925).

18. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 14–19 November 1925 (ms., JHL). 19. HPL to August Derleth, 16 May 1931 (ms., SHSW).

20. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 5 July 1927 (SL II.150).

21. See David E. Schultz, ‘The Origin of Lovecraft’s “Black Magic” Quote’, Crypt of Cthulhu No. 48 (St John’s Eve 1987): 9–13. 22. See David E. Schultz, ‘From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Growth of Lovecraft’s Cosmic Vision’, in Schultz and Joshi, An Epicure in the Terrible.

23. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1.26.

24. Kenneth W. Faig, Jr, ‘“The Silver Key” and Lovecraft’s Childhood’, Crypt of Cthulhu No. 81 (St John’s Eve 1992): 11–47.

25. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 6 September 1927 (SL II.164). 26. HPL to August Derleth, [early December 1926] (SL II.94). Chapter Fourteen

1. HPL to Wilfred B. Talman, 19 December 1926 (SL II.95).

2. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 7 November 1930 (SL III.212).

3. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, [February 1927] (SL II.100).

4. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 24 August 1925 (ms., JHL).

5. See M. Eileen McNamara and S. T. Joshi, ‘Who Was the Real Charles Dexter Ward?’, Lovecraft Studies No 19/20 (fall 1989): 40–41, 48. Most of the information in this article is derived from discussions with Mauran’s widow, Grace Mauran.

6. HPL to R. H. Barlow, [19 March 1934] (ms., JHL).

7. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 24 March 1927 (SL II.114).

8. HPL to Richard Ely Morse, 13 October 1935 (ms., JHL).

9. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, [30 October 1931] (SL III.429).

10. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 5 July 1927 (SL II.151).

11. M. R. James, ‘An M. R. James Letter’ [to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies, 12 January 1928], Ghosts & Scholars 8 (1986): 28–33. I am grateful to Hubert Van Calenbergh for bringing this item to my attention.

12. Donald Wandrei to HPL, 27 September 1928 (ms., JHL).

13. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, [17 July 1927] (ms., JHL).

14. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 30 July 1927 (SL II.157).

15. Ibid.

16. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 22 December 1927 (AHT).

17. HPL to Donald Wandrei, [20 January 1928] (ms., JHL).

18. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, [December 1927] (SL II.207).

19. Ibid.

20. Zealia Bishop, ‘H. P. Lovecraft: A Pupil’s View’ (1953), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 267.

21. HPL to August Derleth, 6 October [1929] (ms., SHSW).

22. HPL to Zealia Bishop, 1 May 1928 (SL II.238). Chapter Fifteen

1. Davis, Private Life, p. 21.

2. HPL to James F. Morton, 10 May 1928 (SL II.239).

3. Davis, Private Life, p. 21.

4. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, [12 June 1928] (postcard) (ms., JHL).

5. ‘Literary Persons Meet in Guilford’, Brattleboro Daily Reformer (18 June 1928): 1.

6. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 24 June 1924 (postcard) (ms., JHL).

7. HPL to August Derleth, [1928] (ms., SHSW).

8. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 1 July [1929] (ms., JHL).

9. HPL to Donald Wandrei, 12 September 1929 (ms., JHL).

10. Davis, Private Life, p. 21.

11. Arthur S. Koki, ‘H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction to His Life and Writings’ (M.A. thesis: Columbia University, 1962), pp. 209–10.

12. See Nelson Manfred Blake, The Road to Reno: A History of Divorce in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1962), pp. 189–202.

13. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, [17 August 1929] (postcard) (ms., JHL).

14. Winfield Townley Scott, ‘A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet’ (1945), in H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism, ed. S. T. Joshi (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980), p. 213.

15. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 13 June 1936 (ms., JHL).