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by Rusty Burke
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Nathan,
George Jean | Nennius | Nicolson,
J.U. | Nietzsche,
Friedrich | Nordhoff,
Charles Bernard | Norfleet,
James Franklin | Norse
sagas | Northrop,
Henry Davenport | Noyes,
Alfred
(1882-1958)
Mentioned in "King Hootus" (parody, included in REH to
Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928) as "George Stein Stathan."
Mentioned
in "A Fable for Critics."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932 includes Nathan 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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(ca. 8th century)
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."
[See
Henry Smith Williams, ed., The
Historians' History of the World]
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(1885-
)
Chicago: Pascal Covici, Publisher,
1926. 30809; PQ3; GL; TDB.
Still in HPU holdings.
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(1844-1900)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. 20 February 1928 [SL 1 #10]:
"Nietzsche never untwined the human from the cosmic..."
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REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1930 [SL 1 #33]: "No, you
didn't show me the Nomad but I have an idea of what its like. Reginald von Proudrear calls his valet: I say, me man, I
think I'll rough it in the wilds of Dutch Guinea awhile. Have the hotel person to give me a suite of room overlooking
the jungle. And bah Jove, I'll have
the bally natives to do some of their dawnces foh me – I'm of old pioneer
stock, you know."
[The
Nomad was a travel magazine published in New York from 1924 until 1926 as Journeys
Beautiful, from 1927 until 1931 as The Nomad.]
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(1887-1947)
and James Norman Hall (1887-1951)
Pitcairn's Island
Boston:
Little, Brown & Co., 1934.
REH to August W. Derleth, 11 December 1934: "The best yarn
I've read in years was 'Pitcairn's Island', which I got hold of recently by
chance. That was the real McCoy --
realism without the pink pants or the blood-and-thunder.
I'm going to read its companion books: 'The Bounty' (I believe that's the
title) and 'Men Against the Sea.' I
first heard of the Mutiny on the Bounty when I was a child, and it made
considerable of an impression on me; but that's the first detailed account I
ever got of it. I found a picture
of Captain -- later Governor -- Bligh in one of my history books, and he looks
just like the kind of a mutt that would ruin the lives of everybody he came in
contact with, in his wrong-headed efforts to remold the universe according to
his particular ideas. What a
forsaken shame it was that somebody didn't drop him on his head when he was an
infant."
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(1865-1967)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. October 1930 [SL 1 #47]: "But in a
little town on the plains I met a figure who links Texas with her wild old past
-- no less a personage than the great Norfleet, one of modern Texas' three
greatest gunmen... Norfleet is not unknown in New York and Chicago and a few
years ago gained national fame by tracking down a band of con-men who had
swindled him out of considerable money; he landed them all in the pen, instead
of shooting them. An interprizing
firm published a book of his experiences, which reached an enormous sale."
[J.
Frank Norfleet, Norfleet; The actual experiences of a Texas Rancher's
30,000-mile transcontinental chase after five confidence men (Fort Worth: White
Publishing Co., 1924); revised and republished as Norfleet; The Amazing
Experiences of an Intrepid Texas Rancher with an International Swindling Ring,
"as told to Gordon Hines" (Sugar Land, Texas: Imperial Press, 1927).]
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REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 10 August 1931: "Like you, the
sagas of Norse gods and heroes fascinate me."
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(1836-1909)
Containing a Complete Description of the
Animal Kingdom. Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1897.
30723; PQ3; GL; TDB.
or Explorations and adventures,
by Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travellers, containing thrilling
accounts of famous expeditions, miraculous escapes, wild sports of the jungle,
and plain, curious customs of savage races, journeys in unknown lands, and
marvelous discoveries in the wilds of Africa, together with graphic descriptions
of beautiful scenery, fertile valleys, vast forests, mighty rivers and
cataracts, inland seas, mines of untold wealth, ferocious beasts, etc., etc.,
the whole comprising a vast treasury of all that is marvelous and wonderful in
the dark continent, by Henry Davenport Northrop, D.D., Author of "Earth,
Sea, and Sky," etc., etc. Embellished
with more than 100 striking illustrations.
[Various publishers, (ca. 1889)]. 30673
(author as "Stanley, Henry M."); PQ1 (same as accessions list); GL
(same as accessions list); TDB (same as accessions list). Still in HPU holdings.
Note in PQ1: "[No place, date, or publisher is given.] The verso of
the title-page gives some of this information, but the type is so battered that
it is illegible." The National
Union Catalog lists at least 8 editions of this work, from various publishers,
all dated 1889 or 1890. The edition
in the HPU holdings has on the cover, "Explorations | and | Adventures | of
| Henry M. Stanley." The title
on the spine reads, "Thrilling | Adventures | in the | Wilds | of |
Africa." The full title of the
work, given on the title page of the edition I have, includes, following
"Explorations and adventures," the phrase "in the wilds of
Africa," and following "world-renowned travellers,"
"including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu,
Andersson, etc., etc."
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(1880-1958)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Noyes is listed among a
number of poets Howard likes.
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. July 1934: "Noyes is one of my favorites.
I like the music of drums and wind-harps that throbs through so much of
his poetry."
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1927.
30667; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still
in HPU holdings.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. July 1934: "Thanks for the kind
things you said about my 'Shadows in the Moonlight'. (My original title was
'Iron Shadows in the Moon'.) I'm
afraid I can't claim originality in regard to the parrot and his repetition of
the god's invocation. I got the
idea from a poem of Noyes', entitled, I believe, 'The Parrot'.
As I remember, it goes something like this: [here he quotes, quite
accurately, lines 1-12 and 17-20]. The
poem ends on what seems to me a powerful and shuddersome note. [Here he quotes
lines 37-40.] I don't know whether
I've quoted it correctly or not. But
shucks, you've probably read it anyway."
[This
poem is included in Dick Turpin's Ride, and Other Poems, q.v.]
Illustrated.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1913.
30805; PQ3; GL; TDB. Still
in HPU holdings.
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