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Rabelais,
François | Ragozin,
Zénaïde A. | Raine,
William MacLeod | Ramacharaka,
Yogi | Raymond,
Dora Neill | Reed,
John | Reeve,
Arthur B. | Rhodes,
Eugene Manlove | Rhys,
Ernest | Richmond,
Grace | Riddell,
John | Rinehart,
Mary Roberts | The
Ring | Ripley,
Thomas | Robertson,
Lexie Dean | Robinson,
Edwin Arlington | Robinson,
William Josephus | Rogers,
Cameron | Roget's
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases | Rohmer,
Sax | Rollins,
Philip A. | Rostand,
Edmund | Russell,
Phillips | Russian
literature
(1494?-1553)
Mentioned in "A Poet's Skull" (as "Rabelay").
"Age Comes to Rabelais." REH to The
Eyrie, March 1932: "[Clark Ashton] Smith's sweep of
imagination and fantasy is enthralling, but what captivates me
most is the subtle, satiric humour that threads its delicate way
through so much of his work -- a sly humour that equals the more
subtle touches of Rabelais and Petronius."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. November 1932 [SL 2 #65]:
"To me, for instance, Rabelais is neither wise nor witty,
though perhaps I shouldn't pass judgment on him, since his stuff
nauseates me to such an extent I've never been able to read much
of it."
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(1835-1924)
from the Rise of the Empire to
the Fall of Nineveh; (Continued from "The Story of Chaldea").
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893.
30819; PQ4; GL; TDB.
On a list of books found among Howard's papers, noted
to cost $ .98 + .14 postage.
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(1871-1954)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1929.
30744; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Contents: Dodge [City]; Texas As Was [The Marlows]; The
Estancia Land Grants; A Forgotten Filibuster [Henry A. Crabbe];
Tom Horn; Helldorado [Tombstone]; Law West of the Pecos [The
Lincoln County War]; The "Apache Kid"; The Story of
Beecher's Island [Indian fight]; "Bucky" O'Neill; When
the Outlaw Rode in Oklahoma [Bill Tilghman]; The War for the Range
[sheep vs. cattle]; Carrying Law Into the Mesquite [Capt. Burton
Mossman and Arizona Rangers]; The Hunting of Harry Tracy;
"Four Sixes to Beat—" [John Wesley Hardin].
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[pseudonym
of William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932)]
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 [SL 1 #11]:
"I suppose I am engaged in what seems to be a childish task,
that of seeking to compromise Haeckel's principle with the
theories of Spencer -- no, not compromise -- I detest that word,
it suggests surrender and evasion -- what I am seeking to do is to
find a common viewpoint. I
think that the teachings of Yogi Ramacharaka come nearer to doing
this than any other.... Haeckel argues in one direction, Spencer
in another; the Yogis argue in both directions and seem, in the
Gnani Yoga at least, to cover both fields of speculation, physical
and spiritual."
[Atkinson
was a prolific author of "New Thought" books, both under
his own name and as "Yogi Ramacharaka."
According to L. Sprague de Camp, Dark Valley Destiny,
p. 86, Dr. Solomon Chambers, a close friend of REH's father, owned
a copy of "Ramacharaka's" Fourteen Lessons in Yogi
Philosophy and Oriental Occultism (Oak Park, IL: Yogi
Publication Society, 1903), which Dr. Howard read avidly "and
underlined many passages that impressed him."
REH's remarks here, and his mention of "Gnani
Yoga" (a term not mentioned in Fourteen Lessons...),
suggest he was reading "Ramacharaka's" Gnani Yoga
(Oak Park, IL: Yogi Publication Society, 1906), the fourth volume
in a series titled "Yogi Philosophy."]
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(1889-1961)
John Milton in an Era of Revolt. New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1932.
30825; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Dr.
Neill was a native of San Antonio who taught at Sweet Briar
College in Virginia from 1925.
During the second term of the summer session, 1934, she was
a visiting professor at the University of Texas.
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(1887-1920)
New York: Vanguard Press,
1927. 30727; PQ4; GL;
TDB.
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(1880-1936)
The Mystery of the Incas
Solved by Craig Kennedy -- Scientific Detective.
New York: Hearst's International Library Co., 1915.
30814 (as "Reeves, Author B."); PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1869-1934)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1914].
30626; PQ4; GL; TDB.
[Originally titled Bransford in Arcadia; or, The
Little Eohippus. New York: H. Holt & Co., 1914.]
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(1859-1946)
New
York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1913.
30633; PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1866-1959)
Midsummer's Day.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. 30807 (as "The Twenty-Fourth of July"); PQ4 (as
"The Night of Fourth of July"); GL (same as accessions
list); TDB.
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[pseudonym
of Corey Ford (1902-1969)]
Being some of the life, adventures and opinions of
Trader Riddell, an old book reviewer, in the dark continent of
contemporary literature; including an assortment of strange
interviews and literary follies.
New York: John Day, 1928.
30810 (as "Riddle, John, Meaning of No Offense");
PQ4 (same as accessions list); GL (same as accessions list); TDB
(same as accessions list, save "Offence").
"The
Tom Thumb Moider Mystery" (parody, included in REH to
Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1932: " 'Riddel!' howled the
corpse sitting up suddenly…. 'Now I remember! I was sitting in
the reading room of the club! I took up a book with the name of
John Riddel! I read. I became more and more bored. Suddenly all
went blank!' ¶ 'Aha!' exclaimed Vilo triumphantly. 'The corpse
was never dead! He comes to life! Well, anybody is liable to go
into catalepsy reading the tripe that louse Riddel hands out for
literature!'"
[See also
Ford,
Corey.]
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(1876-1958)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 [SL 1
#19]: "The women writers -- my God!
Rinehart is the only one in the world whose work is worth a
continental curse and only her humor.
She, of course, has no real brains, but some real
guts."
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Tevis Clyde Smith, "Adventurer in Pulp":
recalls Howard "reading everything connected with boxing,
from The Police Gazette to The Ring...."
Howard had a letter published in this paper, April 1926,
and a poem, "Kid Lavigne Is Dead," June 1928.
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(1895-
)
The story of John Wesley Hardin and
his fellow desperados in Texas.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935.
30749; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Stories of Texas gunmen, lawmen, outlaws, etc.: John Wesley
Hardin, Bill Longley, Ben Thompson, Phil Coe, King Fisher, John
Selman, Jack Harris, Jack Helms, Charlie Webb, Jim Bradley, Juan
Bideno, Joe Foster, Billy Sutton, Mark Wilson, J.B. Morgan, Gabe
Slaughter, and the Dixon brothers.
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Harold
Preece to Lenore Preece, 16 January 1965 (in The Howard
Collector, vol. 2, no. 5, whole no. 11, Spring 1969; reprinted
in The Howard Collector, NY: Ace Books, 1979): "He did
meet at least one professional writer if you could call her such
-- Lexie Dean Robertson, the versifier, who lived over at Rising
Star in the same county. But
I regarded Lexie as a nice, big fat gal with cultural interests
rather than as a poet. Yet,
who couldn't help but like her?"
[Rising Star is actually in Eastland, not Callahan, County.
Robertson's home is probably where Howard met Benjamin
Musser (q.v.).]
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(1869-1935)
Tevis Clyde Smith, "So Far the Poet...":
[in talking about Howard's recitation of Robinson's "Richard
Cory" (q.v.), made a marginal note: "Also Ballad of John
Everelldown".
Tevis Clyde Smith, "Conversation on the
Bridge": Referring to the "pained cry" of a
tomcat, Fear Dunn (REH) says "Well, we know what he's after.
I didn't think anybody, or anything, but John Everelldown
worried about that on a night like this."
The poem is from Robinson's The Children of the Night
(Boston: Richard G. Badger & Co., 1897).
Tevis Clyde Smith, "So Far the Poet...":
"Richard Cory | Bob was fond of giving a recitation of
Richard Cory as proof of the fact that a man who is regarded by
his community as having everything actually suffers the same woes
and is subject to the same depression as the lesser members of the
township (neighborhood)."
The poem is from Robinson's The
Children of the Night (Boston: Richard G. Badger & Co.,
1897).
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(1867-1936)
or, The Limitation of Offspring by the Prevention of
Conception. [Prob.
New York: Eugenics Publishing Co., various editions].
30794; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Originally titled Fewer and Better Babies (New York:
Critic & Guide Co., 1915).
The 46th edition is dated 1929.
Regarding Howard's interest in this subject,
Truett Vinson inscribed the copy of H.C. Witwer's The
Leather Pushers which he gave to REH:
"Also don't | forget our opinions on | other subjects
ranging | from prizefighting to | birth control!"
[See Witwer.]
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(1900-
)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929.
30632; PQ4 (title as "Cyrans [?]"); GL; TDB.
With fourteen illustrations by James Daugherty.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928.
30771; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still in HPU holdings.
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[No edition noted.] 30631
(as "Roget, Peter Mark, Theaurus [sic] of English Words and
Phrases"); PQ4 (same as accessions list); GL (same as
accessions list save "Thesaurus"); TDB.
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[pseudonym of Arthur Henry Ward, later Arthur Sarsfield
Ward (1883-1959)].
Howard wrote at least four parodies of Rohmer's Fu Manchu
stories in his letters to Tevis Clyde Smith:
"The Sappious
Few Menchu," 17 March 1925, features the title character
and "Jailum Smith" and "Pester";
"The
Fastidious Fooey Mancucu," ca. October 1927, features the
title character and "Salem Myth";
"The Case of
the College Toilet," ca. February 1929, features
"You-can-koo," "Whalem Stiff," and
"Hatrack";
and an untitled piece ("'Hatrack!' a
voice came to me dimly...") features "Kankookoo,"
"Whalem Stiff," and "Hatrack."
["Hatrack," a play on Rohmer's "Petrie"
character, may have been inspired by Herbert Asbury's story of
that title (q.v.).] The title of another parody, "The Post
of the Sappy Slipper," seems to derive from The Quest
of the Sacred Slipper.
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Rohmer is listed among
those Howard refers to as "my favorite writers."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. January 1934: "Some
notable men talk over the air; I've heard... the inventor of Fu
Manchu among others."
London
and New York: Cassell & Co., 1921.
30741; PQ4; GL; TDB.
London: Methuen, 1919.
30697; PQ4; GL; TDB.
New York: McBride, 1920.
30707; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Being a New Phase in the
Activities of Fu Manchu, the Devil Doctor.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1917.
30738; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Being a somewhat
detailed account of the amazing adventures of Nayland Smith in his
trailing of the sinister Chinaman. New York: McBride, Nast &
Co., 1913. 30731;
PQ4; GL; TDB.
New York: Doubleday, Page &
Co., 1919.
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, 6 April 1925: "I have
never read the original of the following burlesque but will go on
what you told me of it." ["The Post of the Sappy
Slipper"]
New York: McBride, 1916.
30733; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page
& Co., 1922. 30654;
PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1869-1950)
His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in
the Development of the West.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.
30845 (title only as "The Cowboy"); PQ4 (same as
accessions list); GL (same as accessions list); TDB.
A
later edition published under the title, The Cowboy; an
unconventional history of civilization on the old-time cattle
range. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1936.
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(1868-1918)
(1897)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. September 1933: "I
quite agree with your estimate of the average newspaper, and do
not differ radically with your opinion of radio programs.
And yet it would be erroneous to say that all radio
programs are entirely without cultural value... I have heard,
among other things, such plays as... 'Cyrano de Bergerac'... Of
course I had rather see these things on the stage, but as my
chances of doing that are so slim they are practically
non-existant, I was grateful for the opportunity of hearing them
over the air."
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(1884-1974)
Man of Action. Fourth printing. New
York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1930 [originally published 1927].
30609; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still in HPU holdings.
Stamped on title page, 'A.F. Von Blon | Rare Book Dealer |
Waco, Texas.'"
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New York: Brentano's, 1929.
30824; PQ4; GL; TDB.
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REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 2 November 1932 [SL 2
#65]: "Russians seem men wandering in mazes, never getting
anywhere."
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