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Quick correspondentsTevis Clyde Smith 162H. P. Lovecraft 298Novalyne Price 11E. Hoffmann Price 113Glenn Lord 94August Derleth 90Novalyne Price Ellis 82Isaac Mordecai Howard 79Clark Ashton Smith 68Otis Adelbert Kline 50

CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterSeptember 27, 1934

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardHow about going to the show in Brownwood Sunday afternoon? I’ll be over about 1: p.m. Let me know by return mail,1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. December 1934

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardLike my meal-ticket, Conan the Cimmerian, I am a man who eventually fulfills his obligations. So here are the poems I promised to copy for you several months ago —…1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASPostcardpostmarked June 19, 1935; handwritten postcard

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. Howard[The front of the card is a photograph of Mexican pottery and is labeled “Native Potters of Tonala, Mexico.” The description on the back reads “The ‘Horno,’ or firing kiln…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Postcard →CROSS PLAINSTEXASPostcardpostmarked June 20, 1935; handwritten postcard

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. Howard[The front of the card is a photograph of a rattlesnake swallowing a rabbit and is labeled “Rattle Snake Swallowing A Rabbit”. The description on the back reads “This picture…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Postcard →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 4, 1935

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardI take my typewriter in hand to write you a letter on this grand and suspicious — I mean auspicious occasion — when the zoom of the horse-race and the…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 8, 1935

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardThank you for your invitation to call; but you honestly can’t expect me to enjoy ridicule and contempt so much that I come back for another dose.2 textual states0 indexed entities2 publicationsExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 12, 1935

To Robert E. Howard

From Novalyne PriceNovalyne Price responds to a disagreement with Howard over her seeing Truett Vinson, defends her independence and their friendship, recalls her earlier relationship with Tevis Clyde Smith, and closes with…2 textual states2 indexed entities2 publicationsExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterFebruary 14, 1936

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardI heard yesterday you had the mumps; now you tell me it’s the itch. I wish you’d make up your mind. In either event, you have my sympathy. I noticed…1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterFebruary 25, 1936

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardI’m sorry but I won’t be able to keep the date this afternoon. I’ve got to take my mother to a hospital in Marlin. I suppose you’ll find this subject…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterMarch 5, 1936

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardI just now read the letter you wrote me Monday, February 24th. None of my mail had been forwarded to me at Marlin and this letter was with the rest…1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterMay 27, 1936

To Novalyne Price

From Robert E. HowardYou needn’t have bothered about returning the book. 1 I intended for you to keep it, if you wanted it. I hope you enjoy your vacation, and that you’ll find…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 20, 1977

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisI have always felt that I owed it to Bob to write about him as a person.1 textual state12 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterNovember 29, 1977

To Jonathan Bacon

From Novalyne Price EllisIn response to his urging, I sent him three valued portrait photographs, two of Robert Howard and one of myself.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJune 8, 1978

To L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisBob was someone you never forgot. Even without my journals, I can remember conversations with him.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 3, 1978

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI sent him one like the photograph that Dr. Howard had, but Bob had a special profile made for me which I foolishly sent to Everts.1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 26, 1978

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisBob was not crazy. I keep saying you'll find that in the diaries because Bob's attitudes, thoughts and feelings as he expressed them when we had our long conversations are…1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 18, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisWhatever value my book will have will be Bob as he impressed people in Cross Plains and as I knew him. Naturally, I sincerely feel I knew the real Bob…1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 1, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisShe sent me a copy of an article written by Harold Preece that was designed to make me furious but only succeeded in amusing and irritating me.1 textual state5 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 5, 1979

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisSince Bob was a selling writer and I was trying to learn, we talked more about my writing than about what he was doing.1 textual state9 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 27, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisSprague sent me a book which Arkham House had published. In it was a biography of Bob that seemed to me to be filled with inaccuracies. It seemed to me…1 textual state8 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterSeptember 8, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisAnother thing that made me decide to go on with it was that I came across the Ray Walters article in the New York Times, April 30, 1978. He, too,…1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterSeptember 24, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisThe date we had in February of that year before he took his mother to Marlin is as vivid as though it had happened yesterday. I really wouldn’t need to…1 textual state11 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterSeptember 24, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisAfter I finish this manuscript, I will read THE LAST CELT and also anything else that I can find. Sprague suggests, but does not say it in so many words,…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterSeptember 24, 1979

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisAnother thing that bothers me is that if people read the memoir, why should they ever think anything but that he was a good friend whose problems were greater than…1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterOctober 20, 1979

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisIn your letter, you mention that Dr. Howard wrote in a letter after Bob’s death that he (Bob) had prepared to kill himself at least twice before he did.1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJanuary 18, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisHowever, the two of them had had [sic] a conversation that caused Dr. Howard to relax and think that he would be able to keep Bob from doing it, especially…1 textual state10 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterFebruary 21, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI did have one of Nat Williams, my superintendent, but I have lost it. I have the picture of Bob that Dr. Howard gave me, the one made with his…1 textual state9 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterApril 17, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisThank you for your letter of April 6, and also for the copy of Dr. Howard’s letter. I see that it was written a little over two weeks after Bob’s…1 textual state8 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterMay 11, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisIt seems that I will face continual problems about my book. It is an irony of fate, I think that Bob’s mother brought him up to hold women in such…1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJune 30, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisThat is the reason that my first effort in writing this book after Bob’s death was called “The Young Hamlet.” I am willing to work hard to make this present…1 textual state7 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterOctober 4, 1980

To L. Sprague de Camp

From Novalyne Price EllisHowever, Dr. Howard did not tell me about his worry over losing Bob until AFTER Bob’s death.1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterOctober 20, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI suppose I am afraid that Bob’s fans expect him to be a freak as Dr. Jane Griffin called him. To me, although I recognized his genius, he was still…1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterDecember 8, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisI will try to call Clyde. Now for a question: Don’t you think it might be wise for you to write an introduction about Bob for my book?1 textual state3 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterDecember 23, 1980

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisSprague had told them I was writing a memoir of Bob, and they want a copy of any book that is published. When I answer, I’ll tell them to get…1 textual state8 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterFebruary 4, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisIn the meantime, I’ll try to get some of my lawyer students to read the manuscript carefully in order to see that no one mentioned in my book has grounds…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterApril 22, 1981

To Glenn Lord

From Novalyne Price EllisAll of us who knew him know him as a person not just from his books and from hearsay [sic] as Sprague does. The last 100 pages of my book…1 textual state6 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →