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Letter to Clark Ashton Smith

From
H. P. Lovecraft
To
Clark Ashton Smith
Date
September 11, 1931

Extract

Howard is an old-time fighting Texan bred in the sanguinary frontier tradition, & physical combat has for him as ineradicable a fascination as colonial architecture has for me.

H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith — September 11, 1931; Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill (Hippocampus Press, 2017).

Date evidence

Source ReportedSeptember 11, 1931Source Reported

Textual states & sources

A printed transcription, draft, sent letter and physical TSS page are distinct kinds of evidence.

Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith · Volume Hippocampus Press, 2017 · 158Surviving State · Edited Transcription

People, animals & other indexed entities

Hugo GernsbackMentionedJoseph DoolinMentionedC. C. SenfMentionedAugust DerlethMentionedHenry S. WhiteheadMentionedBernard Austin DwyerMentionedFrank Belknap LongMentionedA. MerrittMentionedJ. Vernon SheaMentionedW. Paul CookMentioned

Published in

Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith: 1922–1931 (Volume 1)Hippocampus PressJuly 14, 2020↗