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Mrs. Frank M. Torbett

Marlin, Texas friend of the Howard family; mother of Frank Thurston Torbett

Member of the Marlin, Texas Torbett family befriended by the Howards and mother of Frank Thurston Torbett. She corresponded with Robert E. Howard and with editor Harry Bates, and Isaac Howard addressed her together with her husband and Thurston after Robert and Hester Howard’s deaths.

Kind
Human
Historicity
Historical / real

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 from Harry Bates to Mrs. Frank Torbett, April 18, 1932RecipientLetter from Mrs. Frank Torbett to Robert E. Howard, April 23, 1932SenderLetter to Frank Thurston Torbett, postmarked April 28, 1936MentionedLetter from Dr. I. M. Howard to Frank Torbett, June 22, 1936RecipientCopy of a letter from Mrs. Frank Torbett to Harry Bates praising Robert E. Howard, undatedundated copy; enclosed April 23, 1932Sender