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Abdullah,
Achmed | Adam, G. Mercer
| Adams,
Bill | Adlington,
William | Adventure | A.E.
| Aesop | Aiken,
Conrad | Aison,
Gerta | Alger, Horatio | Allen,
E. A. | "An
Amateur Flagellant." | Anderson,
Paul L. | Anderson,
Sherwood | Andreyev,
Leonid | Ansley,
Henry | Apuleius,
Lucius | Arabian
Nights, The | Argosy | Aristophanes
| Arlen,
Michael | Armour, J. Ogden
| Asbury,
Herbert | Aspasia
(1881-1945)
and T[homas] Compton Pakenham
Dreamers of Empire
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1929.
30714; PQ2; GL; TDB.
REH
to E. Hoffmann Price, 15 February 1936:
"My old interest in India has recently been revived by
reading 'Dreamers of Empire' by Pakenham and Achmed Abdullah.
Fine, sneering, swashbuckling biographies of such men as
Sir Richard Burton, Henry Lawrence, John Nicholson, Chinese
Gordon, etc."
[Contents: Cecil John Rhodes / Richard Francis
Burton / John Nicolson / Henry Montgomery Lawrence / William
Walker / Charles George Gordon]
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(1830-1912).
The Life of David Crockett.
[See "Crockett"]
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[Bertram
Martin Adams] (1879-1953).
"Flower
of the Morning"
(verse).
Appeared in Adventure,
10 September 1923, and in author's collection, Fenceless
Meadows: Tales of the Sea [New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.,
1923]. Howard quotes this poem in its entirety in eulogizing his
friend Herbert Klatt, REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa May 1928 [see
SL 1 #13; also "Herbert Klatt," by Glenn Lord, The
Dark Man 1 (Necronomicon Press, 1990)]
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(fl. 1566).
[See "Apuleius"]
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REH
to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 6 March 1933:
"...let me quote from a letter written to Mr. Hoffmann,
editor of Adventure, by your friend Whitehead (1923).
He said in part..." [REH goes on to quote over half a
single-spaced page; the quotation is from the issue of 10 November
1923.]
REH to H.P.
Lovecraft, ca. May-June, 1933 [SL 2 #67]: "Magazines were
even more scarce than books. It
was after I moved into 'town' (speaking comparatively) that I
began to buy magazines. I
well remember the first I ever bought.
I was fifteen years old.
I bought it one summer night when a wild restlessness in me
would not let me keep still, and I had exhausted all the reading
material on the place. I'll
never forget the thrill it gave me.
Somehow it had never occurred to me before that I could buy
a magazine. It was an
Adventure. I
still have the copy. After
that I bought Adventure for many years, though at times it
cramped my resources to pay the price.
It came out three times a month, then....I skimped and
saved from one magazine to the next; I'd buy one copy and have it
charged, and when the next issue was out, I'd pay for the one for
which I owed, and have the other one charged, and so on."
REH
to Carl Jacobi, ca. June 1934: "Yes, I noticed the
Popular company had bought Adventure, and as you probably
have read, they've changed editors again.
Corcoran sold a serial to Cosmopolitan and threw up
the job to free-lance -- probably proving Jack London's assertion
that most editors wanted to be writers, secretly or
otherwise."
[Howard submitted a number of stories to Adventure,
but none were accepted. See
also Appendix
Two]
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[pseudonym of George William Russell (1867-1935)].
REH
to Harold Preece, ca. November 1930:
“I heard A.E. speak - that is, his welcome banquet was
broadcast. He has a
most peculiar voice and though I highly enjoyed hearing him recite
some of his poems, the strange quality of his voice got on my
nerves somewhat. He
talks more like a limey than a mick.”
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. January 1934:
"Some notable men talk over the air; I've heard... that Irish
poet - AE I believe he calls himself... among others."
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(ca. 620-560
B.C.)
Fables
30823; PQ2; GL; TDB. No
edition stated.
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(1889-1973)
American Poetry, 1671-1928
(ed)
New York: Modern Library, 1929 (Modern Library #101).
30656; PQ2; GL; TDB.
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Modern American Poetry
(ed)
New York: The Galleon Press, 1933.
30765; PQ2; GL; TDB.
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa October 1933: "The
Galleon Press has just brought out what they call the book of
Modern American Poetry, which contains a couple of my rhymes, 'To
a Woman,' and 'One Who Comes at Even.'"
[These are the version of "To A Woman"
beginning "Though fathoms deep..." and "One
Who Comes At Eventide."]
"When I submitted my stuff, they accepted these and
asked me to buy twelve copies of the book.
I told them I couldn't do it, and to send my stuff back.
They wrote and told me they wanted to publish it anyway,
and I didn't have to buy any copies if I didn't want to.
I told them I'd take a couple of extra copies and see if I
could sell them."
REH
to August W. Derleth, circa October 1933: "I'm sending
you an announcement of an anthology which contains a couple of my
rhymes; I know very little about it; I sent my verses in on a
venture, they suggested I buy so many volumes of the book, I
replied that I didn't care to pay for the privilege of having my
junk published, and they said they'd include the rhymes
anyway...."
One
Who Walked Alone, pp. 130-131, includes both poems from
the anthology.
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Alger,
Horatio, Jr.
(1832-1899)
30748; PQ2; GL (as "The Cash Box"); TDB (as
"The Cash Box (n.d., ca. 1908)").
[Originally published in
book form as Frank Fowler, The Cash Boy (New York: A.L.
Burt, 1887). Originally
serialized (as The Cash Boy) in 1875.
Reprints of Alger's works often appeared under variant
titles.]
or, A Boy's Adventures in
California. New York: A.L. Burt, 1887. 30750; PQ2; GL; TDB.
[Originally serialized in
1875.]
30816; PQ2; GL; TDB.
[Originally published in
book form as Mark Mason's Victory; or, The Trials and
Triumphs of a Telegraph Boy (New York: A.L. Burt, 1899).
Originally serialized as ADT 79.
Reprints of Alger's works often appeared under variant
titles. One possibility is Mark Mason's Triumph (New York:
New York Book Co., 1911)]
or, Andy Burke's Fortunes and
Misfortunes. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894.
30593; PQ2; GL; TDB.
[Originally serialized in
1874.]
30666;
PQ2; GL; TDB.
[Originally published in
book form as Finding a Fortune (Philadelphia: Penn
Publishing Co., 1904). Originally
serialized as The Tin Box, or, Harry Gilbert's Fortune, in
1882. Reprints of Alger's works often appeared under variant
titles.]
30602;
PQ2; GL; TDB.
[Originally published in
book form as The Western Boy, or, The Road to Success (New
York: Street & Smith, with the G.W. Carleton Co. and American
News Co., 1878). Originally serialized in 1873. Reprints of
Alger's works often appeared under variant titles.]
The Young Acrobat
of the Great North
American Circus
New York: Frank A. Munsey, 1888.
[Included on a list found
among Howard's papers. See
Appendix Two, item 4. Originally
serialized in 1887.]
or, Tom Nelson in California.
Boston: Loring, 1879.
30601; PQ2; GL; TDB.
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(1853-1933?)
The Prehistoric
World
or, Vanished Races.
Cincinnati: Central Publishing House, 1885. 30672; PQ2; GL;
TDB.
[See also
Appendix
Two]
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Experiences of Flagellation
A Series of Remarkable
Instances of Whipping Inflicted on Both Sexes; with Curious
Anecdotes of Ladies Fond of Administering Birch Discipline.
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1885.
30638; PQ3; GL; TDB.
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This author is not mentioned by REH, but his work was
clearly the inspiration for Howard's very early (ca. 1923),
handwritten poem, "Am-ra the Ta-an" (incomplete) and the
fragment "The Tale of Am-ra," as well as his first
published story, "Spear and Fang." Anderson wrote a series of novelettes, appearing in Argosy,
about a tribe of Crô-Magnons called the Ta-an.
Howard's "Am-ra" fragments are brief, but even so
share some common elements with Anderson's series: the hero is
both a warrior and an artist, he is exiled due to a clash with the
tribe's priests, he fights against a race of black men, the Ta-an
are referred to as "the people of the caves," etc.
Such similarities seem unlikely to be coincidental.
Anderson's Ta-an series consisted of "The Son of the
Red God" (Argosy, 31 January 1920), "The Lord of
the Winged Death" (Argosy, 6 March 1920), "The
Cave That Swims on the Water" (Argosy, 8 May 1920),
"The Master of Magic" (Argosy, 17 July 1920),
"The Wings of the Snow" (Argosy, 28 August 1920),
and "Up From the Abyss" (Argosy, 22 March 1924). [It is possible, but I am unsure, that this is Paul
Lewis Anderson (1880-1956), author of a number of photography
books (and a noted photographer), as well as such novels as A
Slave of Catiline (1930), For Freedom and For Gaul
(1931), The Sword of Sergestus (1932), etc.]
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(1876-1941).
Mentioned
in "The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu" (parody,
included in REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927). REH to
H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932, includes Anderson among a
group of writers of whom Howard says, "...three ringing
razzberries for the whole mob....they're all wet smacks."
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(1871-1919).
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. 20 February 1928
[SL 1 #10]: "I have carefully gone over, in my mind, the most
powerful men – that is, in my opinion – in all of the world's
literature and here is my list: Jack London, Leonid Andreyev, Omar
Khayyam, Eugene O'Neill, William Shakespeare."
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("The Jackass of the Plains").
I Like the Depression.
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932.
30779; PQ2; GL; TDB.
A
humorous look at the benefits of having to return to a simpler
life-style, by an Amarillo newspaperman.
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(ca.
155)
The
Golden Ass
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932:
[REH ordered the book from Argosy bookstore in New York City]
"A confounded fake. Adlington's
translation, and expurgated much more than your copy.
The illustrations were nothing much....This edition was
privately printed -- why, I can't imagine."
[This may be The Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius (New
York: Rarity Press, 1931), a privately printed edition with
illustrations by Jean de Bosschère. Translation of William
Adlington, fl. 1566.]
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REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1930
[SL 1 #49]: "Speaking of Arabian Nights, one of my first
books was a copy of that great work -- I was six, I believe."
"The Voice of El-Lil": "It's like a
nightmare—or a tale from The Arabian Nights."
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REH,
in "Argonotes," Argosy, 20 July 1929:
"...I have been a reader of Argosy for years – since
before the combining of Argosy with All-Story.
I suppose I have every Argosy I ever bought, for I
have a stack of back numbers about four feet high."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. June 1931 [SL 2 #53]:
"I'm surprized that Argosy rejected your stories, especially
in the old days, when the magazine was superior to the present
one. But what can you
expect from any standardized publication?
They'd turn down the master-pieces of all the ages, if they
chanced to depart from the regular pattern."
[Howard
submitted a number of stories to Argosy, some of which were
published.]
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(445-ca. 380 B.C.).
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928
[SL 1 #17]: "You're a mixture of Aristophanes and Diogenes..."
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(1895-1956).
Mentioned in "The
Fastidious Fooey Mancucu" (parody, included in REH to
Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927). "The Little
People": "My sister threw down the book she was
reading. To be exact,
she threw it at me. | 'Foolishness!' said she.
'Fairy tales! Hand me that copy of Michael Arlen.'"
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(1863-1927).
Mentioned in "A
Fable for Critics" (verse).
His book, The Packers, the Private Car Lines, and the
People (1906) was a collection of articles written for The
Saturday Evening Post. Also
wrote Business Problems of the War (1917).
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(1891-1963).
The
Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San
Francisco Underworld
New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.
REH
to E. Hoffmann Price, February 15, 1936:
"Glad you found the Barbary Coast book of some interest....
Getting back to the Barbary Coast, some of the dives and customs
described therein reminded me of the oil boom."
[The
Gangs of New York: An Informal History of
the Underworld]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1928.
Tevis
Clyde Smith to REH, 14 March 1931: "Have you read Sins of
New York, by Edward Van Every? …. I enjoyed it more than I did
Asbury's book."
REH discusses New York gangs of the 19th
century, REH to H.P. Lovecraft, 22 September 1932 [SL 2
#64]. While these gangs are discussed in Asbury's book, it is also
possible Howard had read about them in such publications as The
Police Gazette.
The American Mercury,
April 1926
Howard
wrote, in letters to Tevis Clyde Smith in 1929, two parodies of
Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories in which he gave the name
"Hatrack" to the character representing Rohmer's
"Petrie." Asbury's
story told of a prostitute in the small town in which he grew up.
It caused a sensation when published, and H.L. Mencken
(editor of The American Mercury) was arrested for selling
copies of the magazine in Boston Common.
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(of Athens) (ca. 440 B.C.).
REH
to Harold Preece, ca. December 1928
[SL 1 #20]: "You forget the greatest philosopher of all
times: Aspasia of Athens."
[There is a chapter devoted to Aspasia in Volume 1 of Woman,
in all ages and in all countries (q.v.).]
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