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        Human · Fictional / created

        Shalmar Khor

        warrior in The Blood of Belshazzar

        Kind
        Human
        Historicity
        Fictional / created

        Works

        The Blood of BelshazzarPublished version
        Shalmar KhorOn Page · 11 source-counted occurrences · first: Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures — PDF pp. 127–142

        Poetry

        Correspondence

        ABOUT THE CATALOGUE

        REH Writings
        guide & credits

        A searchable research catalogue of Robert E. Howard’s writings and the people, animals, vessels and other story entities found in them—built for REH readers and fans as well as editors and scholars.

        702 catalogued Works709 catalogued Poems917 catalogued Letters4,835 catalogued Characters
        START HEREWhat REH Writings is

        The REH Writings plugin brings together permanent identities for Howard’s prose Works and Poetry, their distinct textual states, correspondence to and from Howard, title and name forms, dates, manuscript witnesses, publication appearances and Characters.

        It is a catalogue and research guide rather than a claim that every record is finished or that every surviving text is reproduced here. Coverage grows as reliable sources and exact texts are reviewed.

        WORKS & POETRYCompositions and textual states

        A Work is the underlying composition. One Work may survive in several Textual Versions: drafts, submitted or final typescripts, false starts, fragments, synopses, outlines, published versions or later revisions.

        • Search Howard and publication titles, manuscript titles, bylines or pseudonyms, and TSS numbers.
        • Filter by form, genre, written or published year, and recorded income.
        • Open a Work to see its textual family; open one state to inspect its exact Characters, publications and manuscript evidence.
        • The catalogue’s primary/default state is a navigation choice, not an automatic declaration of textual authority.
        LETTERSCorrespondence, dates and participants

        Letters are correspondence documents rather than merely another publication format. The catalogue can include letters from Howard, letters to Howard, and third-party correspondence that substantially mentions Howard.

        • Filter by direction, correspondent and year, or search public extracts, subjects, letter state and TSS references.
        • Exact, circa, uncertain, before/after, date-range and postmark evidence retain their source wording instead of being collapsed to a guessed day.
        • Every distinct surviving draft, unsent or sent text is a Letter of its own; reviewed draft/later relationships remain visible. Edited printed transcriptions and original TSS pages are source evidence rather than extra Letters.
        • A complete transcription or facsimile appears only when permission and an individual user capability both allow it; restricted text is never included in public search or page HTML.
        CHARACTERSPeople, animals, vessels and names

        “Character” is the catalogue’s broad story-entity term. It includes humans, historical people, animals, ships and vessels, supernatural beings and other identifiable entities.

        • Search canonical names, aliases, nicknames, spellings and draft-specific name forms. Enable Include contextual mentions when you want broader discovery through descriptions, appearance roles and Letter context.
        • Combine Kind, Historicity, Species / type and Role / occupation filters, then limit “Found in” to Works, Poetry or Letters.
        • Appearances are tied to exact Textual Versions or correspondence roles, so a Character found in one draft or letter is not silently asserted to occur elsewhere.
        • The same name never proves the same identity. Howard reused names, while one developing Character may also change name between drafts.

        Appearance totals report the evidence currently reviewed; they are not always an exhaustive census of every surviving state.

        MANUSCRIPTSTypescripts and TSS numbers

        A TSS number is a catalogue reference for a physical manuscript or typescript unit. It is not a Work ID, a Textual Version ID or necessarily a draft number. Several TSS units may belong to one surviving textual witness.

        • You can enter a TSS number in Writings search to find its catalogued Work and state.
        • Exact manuscript features—such as strikeouts, insertions, page order, authorial corrections, bylines and wording changes—are recorded only when the available evidence supports them.
        • First Cuts or direct manuscript/typescript evidence can support page-level detail. An overview catalogue or spreadsheet may establish that a unit exists without proving everything written on its pages.
        SOURCESWhere the information comes from

        The catalogue began with earlier REH World Stories records and Howard Works (howardworks.com) bibliographic evidence, then reconciled those records into stable Work and Textual Version identities. Publication records and Contents are supplied through the companion REH Publications catalogue.

        Textual and Character research is expanded from reviewed source material, including:

        • Howard’s surviving manuscripts, typescripts and carbons, together with documented TSS catalogue evidence;
        • REH Foundation Press First Cuts volumes, which preserve draft and manuscript detail;
        • REH Foundation Press Ultimate Editions, used as restored reading-edition witnesses for the practical final/final-submission state;
        • original magazine, pulp and other publication texts when publication evidence is the available textual source;
        • source notes, bibliographies and other reviewed research used to reconcile titles, dates, relationships and surviving states.

        Source data is treated as evidence to be reviewed and reconciled, not as something to copy blindly. Documented manuscript holdings represented in these sources include material associated with the Glenn Lord collection at the University of Texas at Austin, the Robert E. Howard collection at Texas A&M University and the typescript collection at Cross Plains Library. A catalogue entry does not imply that every physical page has been directly inspected.

        Correspondence sources represented in the live Letter catalogue

        This list is generated from the retained source provenance, so it grows automatically as reviewed Letter sources are added.

        • "So Far the Poet . . ." and Other Writings
          16 source states · Edited Excerpt, Edited Transcription
        • “New” Letter from Herbert Klatt
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • A Means to Freedom, second softcover edition (2017)
          102 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Amra
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, second edition
          373 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Crypt of Cthulhu #63
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith
          57 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Dime Sports Magazine Volume 2 Number 6
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • E. Hoffmann Price → H. P. Lovecraft supplied transcription
          42 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
          43 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Glenn Lord bibliography / archived REH Two-Gun Raconteur posting
          1 source state · Edited Excerpt
        • Glenn Lord’s Ultima Thule
          3 source states · Edited Transcription
        • H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to E. Hoffmann Price and Richard F. Searight
          45 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Harold Preece and Robert E. Howard
          7 source states · Edited Excerpt
        • Herbert C. Klatt — letters and biographical notes prepared by Rob Roehm
          9 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Herbert C. Klatt — letters and memorial correspondence prepared by Rob Roehm
          2 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Howard History
          3 source states · Edited Excerpt
        • Howard History — The Vinson Papers
          4 source states · Edited Excerpt
        • Legacy reh.world Letters archive
          31 source states · Legacy Web Record
        • Locus #433
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • Lone Scout of Letters
          4 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Magazine of Horror #14
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • Mooney’s Musings — Rob Roehm
          5 source states · Edited Excerpt
        • Nyctalops #6
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard, The Final Years
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • Return to Wonder #8
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter
          39 source states · Edited Excerpt, Edited Transcription
          28 represented issues/editions
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 3 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 4 Number 1
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 4 Number 2
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 5 Number 2
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 5 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 5 Number 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 6 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 6 Number 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 7 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 8 Number 1
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 8 Number 2
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 11 Numbers 1 and 2
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 11 Numbers 3 and 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 16 Number 2
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 16 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 16 Number 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 17 Number 1
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 17 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 17 Number 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 18 Number 1
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 18 Number 2
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 18 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 18 Number 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 19 Number 3
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 19 Number 4
          • Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 20 Number 1
        • Star-Studded Comics #15
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • Sword & Fantasy #11
          11 source states · Edited Excerpt
        • The Collected Letters of Doctor Isaac M. Howard
          146 source states · Edited Excerpt, Edited Transcription
        • The Howard Collector
          7 source states · Edited Transcription
        • The Howard Collector #11 (Volume 2 Number 5)
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • The Howard Collector #15
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • The Howard Collector #7 (Volume 2 Number 1)
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • The Howard Collector #8
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • The Science Fiction Collector #14
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        • The Selected Letters of Novalyne Price Ellis
          11 source states · Edited Transcription
        • The Selected Letters of Novalyne Price Ellis, Volume II
          72 source states · Edited Transcription
        • Yorick Fantasy Magazine 6/7
          1 source state · Edited Transcription
        CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTSProject and research foundations

        REH Writings is created and maintained by Ståle Gismervik for reh.world. The catalogue is built on decades of bibliographic, textual, archival and editorial work by the Robert E. Howard research community.

        Major source foundations currently represented include:

        • Howard Works (howardworks.com), an important bibliographic foundation for title and publication evidence;
        • the Robert E. Howard Foundation and REH Foundation Press, including First Cuts and Ultimate Editions used in exact-text research;
        • the live Correspondence sources listed above, including The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard and every additional reviewed Letter source currently represented;
        • surviving manuscript, typescript and TSS evidence represented by material associated with the Glenn Lord collection at the University of Texas at Austin, the Robert E. Howard collection at Texas A&M University and the typescript collection at Cross Plains Library;
        • original magazines, books and other primary publication witnesses;
        • the companion REH Publications catalogue on reh.world for publication records and Contents relationships.

        Individual records retain source and provenance where available. Researchers, editors, collectors and readers can be credited at the relevant source or record level when a specific contribution is known, rather than forcing every contribution into one undifferentiated master list.

        SEARCHINGUseful ways to explore
        • Try a familiar published title even when Howard used another title; reviewed title forms remain searchable.
        • Search a pseudonym or credited byline such as a publication-supplied name.
        • Search a TSS number without needing to know its Work, poem or letter title.
        • Character search is forgiving about middle initials and word order: Robert Barlow can find Robert H. Barlow.
        • Use -word to exclude a term: Abdullah -Khan keeps Abdullah matches but removes results matching Khan. Use -"exact phrase" to exclude a phrase.
        • Use quotation marks for a required phrase and +word when a term must be present. Keep structured questions such as Kind, Historicity and Role in the existing filters rather than building a complex Boolean query.
        • Use correspondent shortcuts for Tevis Clyde Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Novalyne Price and other frequently represented people.
        • Combine filters: for example, a genre and year under Works, From REH plus a correspondent under Letters, or Historical / real + Letters only under Characters.
        • Open result cards for the full evidence. Compact cards deliberately summarize rather than reproduce the complete record.
        INTERPRETATIONHow evidence is treated
        • No one source is automatically best for every question. A Howard typescript may be strongest for authorial wording; a pulp proves what readers received; a restored edition may best represent the normalized final reading text.
        • Missing pages or an incomplete source cannot prove that a Character or passage was absent from the missing material.
        • A publication relationship applies to the whole Work unless the evidence identifies one exact Textual Version.
        • Stable identities are corrected conservatively: evidence is preserved, same-title and same-name records are not merged by guesswork, and uncertain points remain identified as uncertain.
        DEVELOPMENT HISTORY

        REH Writings
        changelog

        A running record of public catalogue, editorial, research and migration changes. The newest release is shown first.

        0.82.30-alpha2026-08-30CURRENT
        • Correct the bundled Volumes 1–2 final Poetry closure package so the 53 proven permanent-ID reuses use only existing_character_id, as required by Full-text & Character research format 1.4. The obsolete identity_recommendation: reuse hints were unsupported and generated false review warnings.
        • Normalize the two vessel entities Mary L. and the slave ship to the supported Character kind ship instead of the unsupported legacy label vessel.
        • Fix the Full-text & Character validator's unsupported-identity-recommendation warning so it prints the actual invalid value correctly rather than a literal PHP fragment.
        • Add an explicit Refresh corrected staged closure package action for an already-staged but not-yet-reviewed 0.82.29 Volumes 1–2 closure package. It updates the retained staging row in place only while its status is validated / needs_attention; it refuses to overwrite a package that has entered review or promotion.
        • Genuine same-name warnings remain intentionally visible: they are identity-review safeguards, not package-format errors.
        • Poetry closure counts, publication history, frontend layouts and schema 3.12.1 are unchanged.
        0.82.29-alpha2026-08-30
        • Complete the Collected Poetry Volumes 1–2 Work-level Character/entity closure census from the fresh live map exported after Volume 3 final closure Batch 11.
        • Review all 372 residual no-appearance Works through their principal exact textual state: 153 Volume 1 + 219 Volume 2.
        • Add 248 identity / appearance rows across 139 positive residual Works: 53 safe permanent-ID reuses + 195 ordinary new-identity proposals.
        • Deliberately close the other 233 residual Works as complete/exhaustive no-qualifying-entity states for their reviewed principal text rather than manufacturing Characters from generic lyrical voices/addressees, collectives, places, generic species, rhetorical examples or metaphorical allusions.
        • Add data/poetry-character-v1-v2-closure-audit-2026-08-30.json, preserving every residual Work’s closure disposition and reason.
        • Work-level closure after migration: Volume 1 205/205 = 108 positive / 97 exhaustive-negative; Volume 2 251/251 = 115 / 136; Volume 3 remains 253/253 = 181 / 72. The Work/Textual-Version distinction remains strict; alternate states are not silently inherited as negative evidence.
        • Poetry remains 709 Works / 765 textual states; publication history, Character layouts and schema 3.12.1 are unchanged.
        0.82.28-alpha2026-08-30
        • Complete the Collected Poetry Volume 3 Character/entity closure census with final Batch 11. All 115 residual Volume 3 poem Works that still had no live Character appearance after Batch 10 are now represented by complete exact textual states with an exhaustive Character census.
        • 43 residual Works contain positive qualifying Character/entity evidence and contribute 75 identity entries / 75 new appearance rows: 9 safe permanent-ID reuses + 66 ordinary new-identity proposals.
        • Record the other 72 residual Works as complete/exhaustive zero-entity states instead of manufacturing Characters from generic lyric speakers/addressees, undifferentiated collectives, places, generic species, rhetorical/hypothetical examples or purely metaphorical allusions.
        • Safe reuses include Robert E. Howard #3352 in *Authorial Version of Duna*, Satan #523 with the observed alias *Devil* in *What Is Love?*, and seven established *Songs of Bastards* roles onto the separately modelled embedded poem *Life Is a Lot of Hooey!*.
        • Add data/poetry-character-v3-closure-audit-2026-08-30.json, preserving a positive or exhaustive-negative closure decision and reason for each of the 115 residual states.
        • Volume 3 is now explicitly dispositioned 253/253 poem Works: 181 positive / 72 exhaustive-negative. Cumulative Volume 3 packages 3–11 contain 363 identity entries / 390 appearance rows. Poetry remains 709 Works / 765 textual states; publication history, Character layouts and schema 3.12.1 are unchanged.
        0.82.27-alpha2026-08-30
        • Character catalogue counters now keep each number + label on the same line (for example 0 Works · 1 Poem · 3 Letters · 1 name form) while retaining the larger, more readable counter/description typography introduced in 0.82.25.
        • Added Poetry Volume 3 Character batch 10: 44 identity entries / 44 new appearances / 23 exact textual states / 23 poem Works. All 44 remain ordinary Character-review proposals.
        • Batch 10 is a closure-oriented residual pass for clearly individuated narrative speakers/roles and explicit personifications in previously uncovered poems. Examples include the Cimmerian speaker, the horned quarry, the old crusader, the five figures of *A Far Country*, Dreamer/Seeker, Eternity/Destiny, King Life, Hoolyu Li Awn, poem-specific Death figures, the family roles of *A Young Wife’s Tale*, and the social personae in *A Song of Cheer*.
        • Same-name safety remains strict: repeated personifications such as Death are kept poem-specific unless the text proves identity; unnamed historical-looking figures such as the red-bearded lord remain historically uncertain rather than being guessed onto a known person.
        • Volume 3 batches 3–10 now represent 288 identity entries / 315 corrected appearances / 138 unique textual states. Poetry remains 709 Works / 765 textual states; publication history and schema 3.12.1 are unchanged.
        0.82.26-alpha2026-08-30
        • Added Poetry Volume 3 Character batch 9: 28 identity entries / 28 new appearances / 16 exact textual states / 16 poem Works.
        • Batch 9 is built from the fresh live Poetry Character/entity brief exported after Batch 8 was fully reviewed and migrated. King Solomon #2326 is the one safe permanent-ID reuse; 27 entries remain ordinary review proposals.
        • Previously held same-name cases are now represented safely as poem-specific identities rather than guessed merges: Ptolemy in *The Road to Babel*, Fin in *The Madness of Cormac*, Yen, Harry the Fourth, and Bob/Clyde in *Apologies*. The source itself is preserved as the disambiguator.
        • Added selected central residual personae/roles where the poem clearly establishes a distinct figure, including the two Voices, the Zanzibar castrator, the king/queen/sacrificial girl in *The Mysteries*, the Manchu princess and other remembered figures in *A Haunting Cadence*, the wicked old elf and girl, the slave/emperor of *The King and the Mallet*, the gladiator/patrician lady, and the two doomed defenders of *The Last Two to Die*.
        • The Volume 3 dashboard now reports 244 identity entries / 271 corrected appearances / 115 unique textual states across batches 3–9.
        • No schema, publication-history, Poetry corpus, or Character-card layout changes. Poetry remains 709 Works / 765 textual states; schema remains 3.12.1.
        0.82.25-alpha2026-08-30
        • Fix Character catalogue cards that have all four available counters: Work | Poem | Letters | name form now stay on one desktop row instead of wrapping the fourth counter onto a second line. Cards with only two or three applicable counters use two or three columns automatically.
        • Increase the Character-card disambiguation line (for example “historical outlaw”) and the small counter labels by roughly one type step for easier reading. The approved Character-detail Works | Poetry | Correspondence layout is unchanged.
        • Added a guarded one-click Songs of Bastards embedded-verse boundary repair. It removes six false exact-text appearances that an earlier pass attached to *This Is the Tale of Glory* from surrounding dramatic dialogue, while preserving Matthew Mule because he actually sings the embedded verse. It also corrects three stale source-title qualifiers.
        • Added Poetry Volume 3 Character batch 8: 28 identity entries / 32 new appearances / 14 exact textual states / 14 poem Works. Eight entries reuse permanent IDs and 20 remain ordinary review proposals. The batch restores the full parent-text census for *Songs of Bastards*, identifies singers on separately modelled embedded verse states where the stage direction establishes them, and adds selected residual identities/personifications including the Baron of Fenland, Spirit of War, Unreality, Serpent of the Ages, Jean, Bill, Dick, Lust and Waring.
        • The *Serpent* figure keeps Midgaard, Ysis and Baal as exact poem-specific name forms of the single self-identifying Serpent of the Ages; this is explicitly not a merge with unrelated catalogue identities.
        • Poetry remains 709 Works / 765 textual states. Publication history is unchanged. Schema remains 3.12.1.
        0.82.24-alphaPoetry Character census fresh-map pass 3
        • Continue the Collected Poetry Volume 3 Character/entity census with Batch 7, built from the fresh live Poetry Character/reference map exported after Batch 6 was fully reviewed and migrated.
        • Add 27 reviewed identity entries / 28 additional appearance rows / 21 exact textual states across 21 poem Works. Six entries safely reuse current permanent Character IDs; 21 distinct poem-level identities remain proposals until ordinary Full-text & Character research review resolves them.
        • Reuse only securely identified established figures: Mylitta #4404, Thor #1770, Muhammad #1097, Robert Frost #4455, Jim Tully #3624, and Noah #4395. Preserve poem-specific forms such as *Mahommed* and *Tully* as scoped name evidence.
        • Add conservative new proposals for residual named figures including Hiram, Dorindy, Abraham Simeon Levine, Michael Israel Malcolmsky Gammettio O’Stein, Gon Fanfew, Lou, Ching-Ling, Young Lockanbars, Rocky, Romona, Monk Kickawhore, Abe Slickemmore, John Kelley, Mikey de Gold, Juan, Stein the Peddler, Cohen, Moe, Grandpa Theobold, Scutto, and Lesbia.
        • Keep unresolved identity problems out of the package rather than guessing: Fin/Cormac in *The Madness of Cormac*, the metaphysical naming in *Serpent*, Harry the Fourth, generic Dick, Yen, and personified Death across unrelated poems remain held. Same-name Juan matches in other Works are explicitly not merged.
        • Add a seventh staging card to Collected Poetry intake. Batch 7 requires Batch 6 in research-import history and the unchanged 709 Works / 765 textual states integrity gate; re-staging reopens the retained package and writes nothing permanent before normal review.
        • Update the Volume 3 package metric to 188 identity entries / 217 appearance rows / 89 unique textual states across batches 3–7.
        • Leave the completed Poetry publication-history bridge and the shared Works | Poetry | Correspondence Character layout unchanged. No schema change; schema remains 3.12.1.
        0.82.23-alphaPoetry Character census fresh-map pass 2
        • Continue the Collected Poetry Volume 3 Character/entity census with Batch 6, built from the fresh live Poetry Character/reference map exported after Batch 5 was fully reviewed and migrated.
        • Add 58 reviewed identity entries / 58 additional appearance rows / 26 exact textual states across 26 poem Works. Eleven entries safely reuse current permanent Character IDs; 47 distinct identities remain proposals until ordinary Full-text & Character research review resolves them.
        • Reuse the live identities Manannán mac Lir #3326, Astarte #4406, Mylitta #4404, Jim Bowie #3758, Pan #2320, Confucius #3441, Charley Mitchell #566, Rupert Brooke #3659, Pancho Villa #3651, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius #4254, and Omar Khayyam #2224. Preserve poem-specific observed forms such as *Bowie*, *Confucious*, *Rupey Brooks*, *Villa*, *E. Haldeman*, and *Omar* as scoped name evidence rather than changing canonical identities.
        • Add conservative distinct proposals from completely reviewed Volume 3 poems, including Ham, Death, Audhumla, Buri, Isis, Keresa, Thorfinn, Don Miranda, Captain Gower, Jack Armstrong, Rane o’ the Sword, Aristotle, Le Chutsai Mingan, Jake Kilrain, John Laflin, Jack Burke, Herbert Slade, O’Rourke, Jem McClune, Louis Untermeyer, John Dos Passos, J. Ogden Armour, George Horace Lorimer, James Branch Cabell, Edward Bok, Robert Frost, Sara Teasdale, Nancy Hawk, Sir Koocoo Kook, Hogu, Jacob, Judah, Anaconda Kid, and the named comic/Arthurian figures in the selected poems.
        • Keep same-name safety explicit: poem Thorfinn is not forced onto unrelated existing Thorfinn identities; poem O’Rourke is distinct from fictional boxer #752; biblical Jacob is distinct from fictional Jacobs #2082/#2844. Ptolemy, Fin in *The Madness of Cormac*, the metaphysical naming in *Serpent*, and duplicate biblical Solomon cleanup remain outside the package rather than guessed.
        • Add a sixth staging card to Collected Poetry intake. Batch 6 requires Batch 5 in research-import history and the unchanged 709 Works / 765 textual states integrity gate; re-staging reopens the retained package and does not write permanent Character data before normal review.
        • Correct the Volume 3 intake metric to describe package entries explicitly: batches 3–6 contain 161 identity entries / 189 appearance rows / 68 unique textual states. This avoids presenting repeated permanent identities across batches as unique people.
        • Leave the completed Poetry publication-history bridge and the shared Works | Poetry | Correspondence Character layout unchanged. No schema change; schema remains 3.12.1.
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