A handwritten and signed postcard from HPL to REH, postmarked November 13, 1932. Postmarked Providence, R.I. 

The transcribed text follows:

Thanks exceedingly for the very interesting cutting & comment regarding North & South Texas types. The difference certainly does appear to be phenomenally striking—& not altogether due to foreign blood, since the list of South Texan brunet athletes contains a good sprinkling of old American names—Stafford, Hilliard, Fagan, DuBose, Birdwell, Blanton. The prevalence of pure blond types in Ft. Worth—which you mentioned once before—is very striking. Scandinavian types sometimes have a distinguishing physiognomy—due mostly, I fancy, to modifications caused by diet & climate, but in part to the tincture of Lapp-Finn Turanian blood which some of the peasantry possess.

I have often thought that, on the whole, blond types are more frequent in the South—Virginia, Carolinas, Georgia—than among the old stock in the North, but I may be wrong. Of course, one can never judge from
the crowds on the streets, for in the North these are likely to be 3/4 foreign—or even 9/10 foreign in New York City. 

It’s getting devilish cold up here! Hope winter isn’t quite so near in your part of Texas. Best wishes—
H P L

The postcard is listed as [72] in A Means to Freedom Volume 1 on page 458. The front of the postcard is listed as unknown in this volume.

The owner of the postcard, Mitch Kirsner is contemplating selling it. It has been in his possession for several years.

Postcard from HPL to REH - owned by Mitch Kirsner.

Source:

Mitch Kirsner’s own post on the Facebook group, Robert E. Howard Readers and his own profile.