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Letter to Clark Ashton Smith

From
H. P. Lovecraft
To
Clark Ashton Smith
Date
circa early December 1931

Extract

To have my “hero” turn on his intangible nemesis & stage a wholesale slaughter in the Robert E. Howard fashion would be beyond the powers of my imagination.

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

Date evidence

Source Reportedcirca early December 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 · 167Surviving State · Edited Transcription

Published in

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