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 - A Means to Freedom, second softcover edition (2017)
102 source states · Edited Transcription - Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, second edition
373 source states · Edited Transcription - Dime Sports Magazine Volume 2 Number 6
1 source state · Edited Transcription - Glenn Lord’s Ultima Thule
3 source states · Edited Transcription - Legacy reh.world Letters archive
31 source states · Legacy Web Record - One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard, The Final Years
1 source state · Edited Transcription - Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter
38 source states · Edited Excerpt, Edited Transcription27 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 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
- The Collected Letters of Doctor Isaac M. Howard
145 source states · Edited Excerpt, Edited Transcription