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Alfred Galpin

white-and-black adopted kitten of Mrs. Spotty Perkins in Providence, named by Lovecraft after his human friend Alfred Galpin

A lively adopted kitten of Mrs. Spotty Perkins in Providence whom H. P. Lovecraft named Alfred Galpin after his human friend.

Kind
Animal
Historicity
Historical / real
Species / type
cat
Same name, separate identities: the catalogue contains other Characters with the same normalized name. They are not merged automatically.

Works

Poetry

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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 H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked February 11, 1934MentionedLetter from Clark Ashton Smith to H. P. Lovecraft, circa early March 1934MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked March 9, 1934Mentioned