Letters

68 Letters

LetterJune 23, 1930

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftWright recently sent me a letter from the W.T. author Robert E. Howard, praising my “Rats in the Walls” & giving incidental remarks on early Celtic Britain.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJune 29, 1930

To H. P. Lovecraft

From Clark Ashton SmithHoward’s work often has a poetic touch, and could be far finer if it weren’t for the “concessions” of which you speak.1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJuly 18, 1930

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftHave heard again from Howard, who seems to be a really profound student of early Celtic philology, folklore, & antiquities.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterpostmarked August 6, 1930

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftElsewhere in the issue I see some verse by my new correspondent Robert E. Howard— which is not half bad of its kind.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Lettercirca early October 1930

To H. P. Lovecraft

From Clark Ashton SmithThe last issue of W. T. rather punk, apart from the verses, the frontispiece decoration by Senf, and one or two fine passages in Howard’s tale.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterOctober 17, 1930

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftHoward, as you imply, needs to shed a great deal of his quasi-Iliad actionism before he can ever do justice to his occasionally striking sense of elder-world-life.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterpossibly November 29, 1930

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftRobert E. Howard’s “Voice of El-Lil” has possibilities—he has a certain sense of unholy antiquity in mysterious jungle-found cities & piles of masonry1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterDecember 25, 1930

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftThis same Robert E. Howard is proving one of the most interesting persons I have ever encountered—a person of whom no idea can be formed from his published fiction.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterApril 15, 1931

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftYou and Howard are the stars of the current W.T., with that collaborated “Dead-Alive” thing as a very widely separated third.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Lettercirca early August 1931

To H. P. Lovecraft

From Clark Ashton SmithHoward strikes me as carrying off the honors in the Sept. “W. T.”1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterAugust 14, 1931

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftHoward’s recent W.T. story has a fine ending1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterSeptember 11, 1931

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftHoward is an old-time fighting Texan bred in the sanguinary frontier tradition, & physical combat has for him as ineradicable a fascination as colonial architecture has for me.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterSeptember 23, 1931

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftDid I mention, by the way, that (according to Robert E. Howard) a small weird anthology is contemplated by two veteran W.T. contributors—E. Hoffmann Price & W. K. Mashburn?1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterpostmarked October 30, 1931

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftHoward’s story has the makings of effectiveness.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Lettercirca early December 1931

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftTo have my “hero” turn on his intangible nemesis & stage a wholesale slaughter in the Robert E. Howard fashion would be beyond the powers of my imagination.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJanuary 16, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftI am feverishly assembling certain formulae from the Necronomicon, von Junzt’s “Black Book”, & the conjecturally translated fragments of the Pnakotic Manuscripts1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →Lettercirca mid-March 1932

To H. P. Lovecraft

From Clark Ashton SmithHoward must turn out a tremendous amount of work, if his published product represents a mere third of it.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterMarch 11, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftRobert E. Howard says that he lands only about a third of the MSS. he writes.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterMarch 26, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftPossibly Howard is one of those fabulously prolific mass-producers— though I can’t well imagine anybody exceeding the formidable records established by you & young Derleth.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterApril 4, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. Lovecraftonly two stories, yours & Howard’s, are really worth reading.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Lettercirca April 15, 1932

To H. P. Lovecraft

From Clark Ashton SmithThe last W. T. was nothing extra, though I did like Howard’s tale.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterApril 20, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftIn the last W.T. you & Howard have the honours all to yourselves—though Keller isn’t as bad as usual.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterMay 6, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. Lovecraftmost of the references to it were deleted in translations & reprints of von Junzt’s Unausprechlichen Kulten.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJune 11, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftChrist, he wrote Howard, was a vampire— the greatest of them all.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterpostmarked October 28, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftThe failure of Strange Tales is certainly a blow for those who—like yourself, Whitehead, Howard, Cave, Derleth, &c.—had succeeded in storming the portals1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterNovember 18, 1932

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftWhitehead (although giving no details) said he fared rather badly with it, & advised Robert E. Howard not to sign a contract.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterca. June, 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From Robert E. HowardI hardly know how to thank you for the copy of The Double Shadow. I have read the stories with the most intense interest and appreciation, and hardly know which…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Lettercirca February 10, 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftI must read “The Tower of the Elephant”—Howard has a tremendous amount of undisciplined ability, & sometimes it produces a memorable specimen of elder-world phantasy.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Postcardpostmarked February 21, 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. Lovecraftwill come to you from either Howard or Comte d’Erlette1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Postcard →Letterca. July 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From Robert E. HowardI really must apologize for not having answered your letter sooner; but the fact is, I’ve been away from home so much for the past few weeks that I haven’t…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJuly 12, 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. Lovecraftyour Black Book is quite as interesting in spots as the similarly designated volume of the late unfortunate Friedrich von Junzt!1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterpm, July 22, 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From Robert E. HowardI can hardly find words to express the pleasure — I might even say ecstasy — with which I have read, and re-read your magnificent Ebony and Crystal. Every line…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterpostmarked August 15, 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftWe shall certainly have to issue a five-foot shelf of horrific source-books—Necronomicon, Eibon, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Pnakotic MSS., &c. &.—in a uniform binding of ghoul-skin1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Lettercirca September 1, 1933

To H. P. Lovecraft

From Clark Ashton SmithHoward certainly leads all comers in the September W. T.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterpostmarked September 11, 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From H. P. LovecraftTwo-Gun Bob manages to evoke some of his best subterrane suspense & brooding, archaic horror.1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →Letterca. October 1933

To Clark Ashton Smith

From Robert E. HowardThanks very much for the kind things you said about my recent yarns. Wright has three more Conan yarns yet unpublished: “Iron Shadows in the Moon”, “The Queen of the…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →