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Frank Thurston Torbett

Texas artist and writer; close friend and collaborator of Robert E. Howard

Texas artist, writer and close friend of Robert E. Howard.

Kind
Human
Historicity
Historical / real

Profile

Texas artist, writer and close friend of Robert E. Howard. Torbett knew Howard through the Marlin years, corresponded with him, and later collaborated with him on “A Thunder of Trumpets,” published posthumously in Weird Tales.

Works

Poetry

Poetry appearances come from the exhaustive exact-state census of all 765 currently catalogued Poetry textual states.

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 to Frank Thurston Torbett, postmarked April 28, 1936RecipientLetter to Frank Thurston Torbett, postcard, postmarked June 3, 1936RecipientLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to Frank Torbett, June 22, 1936RecipientLetter from C. L. Moore to Dr. I. M. Howard, June 25, 1936MentionedLetter from Farnsworth Wright to Thurston Torbett, July 2, 1936Recipient