REH’s Writings

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Playing Journalist

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Genre

Boxing

Introduction

Playing Journalist. The unpublished manuscript by Patrick Ervin was found after Howard's death and retitled "Playing Journalist".

The original typescript lists the author as "Patrick Ervin", a pseudonym REH used in connection with his Dennis Dorgan stories. Otis Adelbert Kline and later agents retained the original typescript (titled “A New Game for Dorgan”), and it was eventually donated to Cross Plains Library. In OAK’s logs the title is originally "A New Game for Costigan", then "Costigan" is struck out and "Dorgan" is written above it, along with "Patrick Ervin".

Cross Plains Library has one original draft of this story and a retyped draft by the Otis Adelbert Kline Agency.

Textual states

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Primary textPlaying Journalist

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