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CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 6, 1925

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardI’m glad you passed the exams. Why don’t Truett write? Too busy, likely. I’d sure like to come over but don’t know when I can. Having flopped in stenog. work…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASUnsent letterAugust 21, 1925

To Farnsworth Wright

From Robert E. HowardI am preparing a mss. which I intend to submit to your magazine and am writing for some information. I notice that practically all of your serials contain a certain…2 textual states0 indexed entities2 publicationsExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 26, 1925

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardI’ve been thinking. What is reality and what is illusion? One cannot say that our thoughts are abstract and our actions concrete, for then we are reduced to the level…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 28, 1925

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardI’ve been thinking. Did you ever stop and consider that we may be surrounded by things far outside the pale of our thoughts? We know there are sounds which we…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. fall 1925

To Robert E. Howard

From Wade Truett VinsonOne of the rare surviving letters from Truett Vinson to Howard. Vinson writes about girls and marriage, current reading and politics, including Upton Sinclair and Letters to Judd, and promises…2 textual states1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLettercirca fall 1925

To Robert E. Howard

From Tevis Clyde SmithNoticed the new Tattler the other day.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterSeptember 6, 1925

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Herbert KlattKlatt discusses reading, criticism and writing and says that the previous night he had occupied himself with a long-delayed letter to Robert E. Howard.1 textual state4 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterOctober 9, 1925

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardSay, bo, you’re developing into a real poet. That poem of yours was sure great. What’s Truett doing these days? How is der old Daniel Baker?1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterDec. 26, 1925

To Isaac Mordecai Howard

From H. N. StokesMr. John M. Watkins, London has sent us your name in connection with the books of Dr. Anna Kingsford.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. Spring, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardIf you don’t publish this, would you mind keeping the mss. I didn’t keep a copy. This is partly a tribute to those winged Vikings of the skies, partly a…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. early 1926

To The Ring

From Robert E. HowardHere is my opinion on the greatest heavyweights of all time: Boxing reached its height between 1892 and 1905. That was the ring’s Golden Era. The culmination of perfection, the…1 textual state10 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterApril 9th, 1926

To Robert W. Gordon

From Robert E. HowardI must really ask your pardon having failed to answer your letter sooner but I have been very busy. I thank you very much for the pictures and the paper,…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJanuary 14, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardBy Baal I am joyed that you wrote. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! This is a rich jest, this world. Hell.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJanuary 14, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardThis is a habit of mine, always was. I’m writing you again. I got your book, sure thank you, should have written sooner. I intended cussing out everything in general…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJanuary 19, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Herbert KlattA wide-ranging letter about writing, reading and local life; Klatt makes a passing association between the Texas town name Shamrock and Robert E. Howard.1 textual state15 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJan. 20, 1926

To Robert E. Howard

From Farnsworth WrightI hope you have a carbon copy of “Wolfshead.”1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterFebruary 15, 1926

To Robert W. Gordon

From Robert E. HowardI was delighted to receive your letter, and wish to express my sincere thanks for the pictures which accompanied it. I would certainly appreciate any which might be convenient for…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterMarch 9, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Herbert KlattKlatt discusses literature and writing, says he possesses two letters from Robert E. Howard, and includes his poem 'Stone Ranch,' which recalls a gathering of Klatt, Howard, Smith and Truett…1 textual state24 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterMar. 16, 1926

To Robert E. Howard

From Farnsworth WrightI thoroughly enjoyed “Men of the Shadows,” but I fear I can not use it in Weird Tales.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterApril 14, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardBeing in an (un)poetical mood, I shall take a fiendish glee in flinging various unrhythmic time-squanderings at you.1 textual state0 indexed entities2 publicationsExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterMay 7, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardI’m sending you a flock of poetry. Don’t think I’m expecting you to publish all of this junk, or any of it. If you can use it, you’re far more…1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJune 23, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardI’m trying to write again, with the usual result. I think I’ll drop my efforts at verse for the present and go back to prose. In re sexual perverts, I’ve…2 textual states4 indexed entities2 publicationsExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 25, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Herbert KlattA long literary letter in which Klatt discusses Charles J. Finger and says Finger is the kind of man he can imagine Robert E. Howard becoming someday.1 textual state28 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 6, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardIn the first place, pardon for not having written sooner. But I’ve been working like the very devil. I work every night until eleven or twelve, every night, that is…1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterAugust 21, 1926

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardI think you owe me one, two, three or maybe four letters, but anyhow, I’m writing you one. I note great rapidity which you have shown in not sending me…1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterOctober 30, 1926

To Edna Mann

From Robert E. HowardAs usual I have to start my letter with an apology, but I’ve been kept busy what with lessons, risings on my arm and rotten eyes.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterDec. 9, 1926

To Robert E. Howard

From Hester Jane Ervin HowardThis is such nasty weather I do hope you keep your feet dry and warm.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. fall 1927

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardThen the little boy said to Goofus Gorilla, “Haven’t you any sisters?” And what do you suppose Goofus Gorilla said? You don’t know? Neither do I by Hell.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. probably late 1927, early 1928

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardI wasn’t lying to you Saturday evening when I said I was leaving the next morning; I did intend to, but next morning it looked so much like rain I…1 textual state2 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterlate 1920s

To Lenore Preece

From Robert E. HowardA surviving signed Howard Christmas card from Lenore Preece’s scrapbook, now owned by Patrice Louinet.1 textual state0 indexed entities0 publicationsExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJan. 4, 1927

To Robert E. Howard

From Hester Jane Ervin HowardThis is another lovely Spring-like day.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterMarch 7, 1927

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Herbert KlattKlatt discusses philosophy, literature and his circumstances, says he has entertained the idea of running for the Texas Legislature, and invites Smith to visit with Robert E. Howard and Truett…1 textual state20 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. April 1927

To Weird Tales

From Robert E. HowardYour last three issues have been very fine. Certainly no magazine has ever offered a tale as unique and thought-inspiring as the serial by Mr. Cummings.1 textual state0 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterJuly 12, 1927

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Herbert KlattKlatt writes at length about philosophy, literature and poetry and reports that Robert E. Howard has told him Smith is writing notable poetry.1 textual state16 indexed entities1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. Mid-September 1927

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardHaving just got your letter I’ll write now when I have time. Long live the soap industry —let us be extraverts as somebody didn’t say.1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →CROSS PLAINSTEXASLetterca. mid- to late-September 1927

To Tevis Clyde Smith

From Robert E. HowardSeeking cognizance of things looked after and things desired, the ghosts and shadows of things wished for and obtained, deriving assurance of the futility of achievement and the dim shades…1 textual state1 indexed entity1 publicationExplore Letter →