Introduction
From a long letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa March 1929. Several poems, stories, ramblings and even plays are presented. Here is an extract:
Queen: “Good master, you bring blushes to my face; I’ll have a roof put on the squatting-place.”
Sage: “Good mistress, think the stars not to offend; if on the privies money you must spend, mend up the cracks whereby the serving men do view your queenly buttocks now and then.”
Nell: “I told you mistress! Scarce a day is passing, but through a crack some rude rough wight doth reach to pinch a lady-in-waiting on her breech. To me, fair mistress it is embarrassing.”
Published in:
- LEWD TALES, Cryptic Publications, 1987
- ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SONGS OF BASTARDS, Conquest Press, 1992 (graphic adaptation)
- THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF REH VOL. 1: 1923-1929, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, June 2007
- THE LAST OF THE TRUNK OCH BREV I URVAL, Paradox Entertainment, March 2007
- PICTURES IN THE FIRE, REH Foundation Press, June 2018
- THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF REH VOL. 1: 1923-1929 ultimate edition, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, June 2021
