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Hester Jane Ervin Howard

Howard’s mother

Hester Jane Ervin Howard was Robert E. Howard’s mother and one of the central people in his life. Howard was deeply devoted to her, and surviving family correspondence provides important evidence about their home life and his final years.

Names & variants

Hester Jane Ervin · Observed Form · Primary text

Work & poetry appearances

The current count is catalogue evidence, not a claim that every surviving draft or textual state has already been analyzed.

The Wandering YearsPrimary text
Hester Jane ErvinMentioned · first: Post Oaks and Sand Roughs UE p. 7

Correspondence

A person or entity may be a sender, recipient, subject or mention. Arrows show sender/recipient direction; these roles do not imply an appearance in Howard’s fiction.

Letter from Hester Howard to Robert E. Howard, Dec. 9, 1926SenderLetter from Hester Howard to Robert E. Howard, Jan. 4, 1927SenderLetter from Harold Preece to Tevis Clyde Smith, March 27, 1931MentionedLetter to E. Hoffmann Price, February 15, 1936SubjectLetter to E. Hoffmann Price, June 3, 1936SubjectLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, June 20, 1936MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, postmarked June 20, 1936SubjectLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to E. Hoffmann Price, June 27, 1936MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to H. P. Lovecraft, postmarked July 2, 1936SubjectLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, July 5, 1936SubjectLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, July 9, 1936MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to W. J. Proctor, July 11, 1936MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to Montgomery Wards, July 13, 1936MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to Farnsworth Wright, Sept. 7, 1936MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to Otis A. Kline, Sept. 12, 1936MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked September 29, 1936MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to Mrs. W. P. Searcy, Nov. 7, 1936MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to Otis A. Kline, Feb. 15, 1937MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to E. Hoffmann Price, Nov. 10, 1943MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to E. Hoffmann Price, Feb. 27, 1944MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to E. Hoffmann Price, June 21, 1944MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to Francis T. Laney, July 22, 1944MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to E. Hoffmann Price, Aug. 18, 1944MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to August Derleth, circa Dec. 1944MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to August Derleth, Mar. 11, 1945MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, Jan. 15, 1977MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, Jan. 22, 1977MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, Feb. 11, 1977MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, April 27, 1977MentionedLetter from Novalyne Price Ellis to L. Sprague de Camp, August 20, 1977MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, Dec. 9, 1978MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, Feb. 10, 1979MentionedLetter from Novalyne Price Ellis to Glenn Lord, October 20, 1979MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, Nov. 20, 1979MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, Dec. 2, 1979MentionedLetter from Novalyne Price Ellis to Glenn Lord, May 11, 1980MentionedLetter from Novalyne Price Ellis to Glenn Lord, July 22, 1981MentionedLetter from Novalyne Price Ellis to Thomas W. Collins, November 10, 1988MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, circa early summer 1977MentionedLetter from E. Hoffmann Price to The Acolyte, circa summer 1945Mentioned

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