Letters

82 Letters

LetterAugust 20, 1977

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisI have always felt that I owed it to Bob to write about him as a person.1 textual state12 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterNovember 29, 1977

To Jonathan Bacon

From Novalyne Price EllisIn response to his urging, I sent him three valued portrait photographs, two of Robert Howard and one of myself.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJune 8, 1978

To L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisBob was someone you never forgot. Even without my journals, I can remember conversations with him.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJuly 3, 1978

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI sent him one like the photograph that Dr. Howard had, but Bob had a special profile made for me which I foolishly sent to Everts.1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJuly 26, 1978

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisBob was not crazy. I keep saying you'll find that in the diaries because Bob's attitudes, thoughts and feelings as he expressed them when we had our long conversations are…1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJuly 18, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisWhatever value my book will have will be Bob as he impressed people in Cross Plains and as I knew him. Naturally, I sincerely feel I knew the real Bob…1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterAugust 1, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisShe sent me a copy of an article written by Harold Preece that was designed to make me furious but only succeeded in amusing and irritating me.1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterAugust 5, 1979

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisSince Bob was a selling writer and I was trying to learn, we talked more about my writing than about what he was doing.1 textual state9 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterAugust 27, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisSprague sent me a book which Arkham House had published. In it was a biography of Bob that seemed to me to be filled with inaccuracies. It seemed to me…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterSeptember 8, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisAnother thing that made me decide to go on with it was that I came across the Ray Walters article in the New York Times, April 30, 1978. He, too,…1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterSeptember 24, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisThe date we had in February of that year before he took his mother to Marlin is as vivid as though it had happened yesterday. I really wouldn’t need to…1 textual state10 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterSeptember 24, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisAfter I finish this manuscript, I will read THE LAST CELT and also anything else that I can find. Sprague suggests, but does not say it in so many words,…1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterSeptember 24, 1979

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisAnother thing that bothers me is that if people read the memoir, why should they ever think anything but that he was a good friend whose problems were greater than…1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterOctober 20, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisIn your letter, you mention that Dr. Howard wrote in a letter after Bob’s death that he (Bob) had prepared to kill himself at least twice before he did.1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJanuary 18, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisHowever, the two of them had had [sic] a conversation that caused Dr. Howard to relax and think that he would be able to keep Bob from doing it, especially…1 textual state8 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterFebruary 21, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI did have one of Nat Williams, my superintendent, but I have lost it. I have the picture of Bob that Dr. Howard gave me, the one made with his…1 textual state9 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterApril 17, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisThank you for your letter of April 6, and also for the copy of Dr. Howard’s letter. I see that it was written a little over two weeks after Bob’s…1 textual state7 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterMay 11, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisIt seems that I will face continual problems about my book. It is an irony of fate, I think that Bob’s mother brought him up to hold women in such…1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJune 30, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisThat is the reason that my first effort in writing this book after Bob’s death was called “The Young Hamlet.” I am willing to work hard to make this present…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterOctober 4, 1980

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisHowever, Dr. Howard did not tell me about his worry over losing Bob until AFTER Bob’s death.1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterOctober 20, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI suppose I am afraid that Bob’s fans expect him to be a freak as Dr. Jane Griffin called him. To me, although I recognized his genius, he was still…1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterDecember 8, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI will try to call Clyde. Now for a question: Don’t you think it might be wise for you to write an introduction about Bob for my book?1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterDecember 23, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisSprague had told them I was writing a memoir of Bob, and they want a copy of any book that is published. When I answer, I’ll tell them to get…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterFebruary 4, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisIn the meantime, I’ll try to get some of my lawyer students to read the manuscript carefully in order to see that no one mentioned in my book has grounds…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterApril 22, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisAll of us who knew him know him as a person not just from his books and from hearsay [sic] as Sprague does. The last 100 pages of my book…1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterMay 20, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI can’t predict it’s length at this time, but shorter than I had thought. When I get back, I’ll send Clyde the 284 pages so that he can read it…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJuly 8, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI started off with a bang and the next two years were much better, but I didn’t put anything in the manuscript about those years. Certainly this is Bob’s story,…1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJuly 22, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisIt’s interesting to me that all of Bob’s male friends loved his mother, but I liked Dr. Howard and couldn’t stand her most of the time.1 textual state7 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterAugust 10, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI called to ask you if you had gotten the manuscript and to ask you to draw a line through the title of the book on page 557 and let…1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterSeptember 2, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisYou will notice in Clyde’s letter he mentions Bob’s pre-occupation with death. If you have had time to finish my manuscript, you probably understand why I, having heard him say…1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterOctober 30, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisOne of the things that they had asked me to do was talk about some of Bob’s works. That almost floored me because I had avoided reading anything until I…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterNovember 10, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisBut I’ll cut anything in order to get a picture of Bob by someone who knew him.1 textual state7 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterNovember 10, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI could begin the articles and vignettes about Bob. I could read the rest of “The People of the Black Circle” and the rest of Bob’s things.1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterNovember 19, 1981

To Donald M. Grant

From Novalyne Price EllisFor example, the first Cross Plains faculty meeting is described in some detail, not because it tells anything about Bob’s and my relationship, but I thought it painted a picture…1 textual state7 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterJanuary 28, 1982

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI’m very fond of Jack Scott (Clyde isn’t), but Jack did not know Bob personally as we did. He belonged to the group of people in Cross Plains who thought…1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →LetterApril 22, 1982

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisGlenn, when you appear on shows with the people from the movie, please plug my book and say what Clyde said in his revised introduction, “Novalyne didn’t get her information…1 textual state11 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →