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I'Anson,
Alice | Ingraham, J.H. | Inman,
Herbert Escott | International
Adventure Library | The
Irish Annals | Irish
Manuscripts, Ancient | Irving,
Washington
Weird Tales, November 1930.
REH to The Eyrie, January 1931: "I was
particularly fascinated by the poem by Alice I'Anson in the latest
issue... The writer must surely live in Mexico, for I believe that
only one familiar with that ancient land could so reflect the
slumbering soul of prehistoric Aztec-land as she has done.
There is a difference in a poem written on some subject by
one afar off and a poem written on the same subject by one
familiar with the very heart of that subject.
I have put it very clumsily, but Teotihuacan
breathes the cultural essence, spirit and soul of Mexico."
[Farnsworth Wright appended a note that I'Anson "lives in
Mexico City."]
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(1809-1866)
From the Consecration of the Shepherd of
Bethlehem to the Rebellion of Prince Absalom. Being An
Illustration Of The Splendor, Power, & Dominion Of The Reign
Of The Shepherd, Poet, Warrior, King, & Prophet, Ancestor
& Type Of Jesus; In A Series Of Letters Addressed By An
Assyrian Ambassador, Resident At The Court Of Saul & David, To
His Lord & King On The Throne Of Nineveh; Wherein The Glory Of
Assyria, As Well As The Magnificence Of Judea, Is Presented To The
Reader As By An Eye-Witness. Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860.
30784; PQ3; GL; TDB.
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A Story of King Alfred of
England. New York: A.C. McClurg, 1908.
30589; PQ3; GL; TDB.
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New York: W.R. Caldwell & Co.,
n.d.
30763; PQ4 (author as "Stoker"); GL (author as
"Stokes"].
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, 5 October 1923: "I've
had two cousins visiting me, whom I hadn't seen in fifteen years.
They'd read the International Adventure Library, and from
what they said, 'Dracula' is a humdinger.
I'm going to order the set right away."
["See
"Stoker." See also
Appendix Six for a listing of books
in the International Adventure Library.]
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REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 9 August 1930 [SL 1
#39]: "I think such Latin authors as mention the above
matters agree with this account, in that the Britons precede the
Picts and the Picts, the Scots or Gaels.
The legends of the various races coincide with it, as do, I
think, the narratives of the British historians, Gildas and
Nennius. I have not
read The Irish Annals nor The Pictish Chronicle but if I am not
much mistaken both agree in placing the arrival of the Gaels much
later than that of the Picts and Britons."
[See Henry Smith
Williams, ed., The Historians History of the World]
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"Musings
of a Moron" (The Junto, September 1929): "I
recited the seventy-five lost books of the Tain Bo Cualgne
in a dreary voice." [The
Tain is the Irish national epic.]
In "The Cairn on
the Headland" (Strange Tales, January 1933),
Howard mentions The Four Masters, "The Book of
Leinster, compiled in the late 1150's," and "the Book
of Lecan, compiled by the MacFirbis about 1416."
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(1783-1859)
(1809)
REH to Wilfred Blanch Talman, ca. September 1931:
"The American occupancy of the Nederlandsche people always
interested me, and Irving's Knickerbocker Tales are some of
my most enjoyable memories – the reading of them, I mean."
[The proper title of this work– seldom used today – is A
History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of
the Dutch Dynasty, as by "Diedrich Knickerbocker."]
Irving is mentioned in Howard's parody, "Wolfsdung"
(written ca. January 1928).
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