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Talman,
Wilfred Blanch | Tarkington, Booth | Taylor,
Bayard | Teasdale,
Sara | Tennyson,
Alfred | Texas
Declaration of Independence
| Thackeray,
William Makepeace | Thevenin,
Rene | Thomas,
Lowell | Thompson,
Ben | Thomson,
Christine Campbell | Todd,
James | Tolstoy,
Leo | Trinkler,
Emil | Tully,
Jim | Tuttle,
W.C. | Twain,
Mark
(1904-1986)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. September 1930 [SL 1
#43]: "I cannot at present recall Mr. Talman, though I have
undoubtedly read stories by that author."
[Thanks H.P. Lovecraft
for giving him Talman's address.]
REH to Wilfred B. Talman, ca. September 1931:
"I'm looking forward to reading your story in Weird Tales
[perhaps "Doom Around the Corner," November 1931], also
the full-page poem you mentioned [possibly "Death," Weird
Tales, March 1932]. Hope
you've placed several tales since writing me.
I like your work."
REH to Wilfred B. Talman, ca. September 1931 [SL 2
#57]: "I also appreciate your giving me the sketch regarding
yourself... I admire both your literary education and your success
in the newspaper world, the more remarkable -- it seems to me --
because of your youth."
Weird
Tales, March 1932.
REH to Wilfred B. Talman, ca. March 1932: "I
was much taken with your recent poem in Weird Tales.
It's difficult to capture a completed thought in so short a
verse, but you seem to have succeeded admirably.
I hope to see more of your work soon."
Weird Tales, November 1931.
REH to Talman, ca. September 1931 [SL 2 #57]:
"I'm looking forward to reading your 'Doom Around the
Corner.'"
REH
to Wilfred Blanch Talman, ca. October 1931: "I believe,
though, of all your stories, I like 'Doom Around the Corner'
though this statement is in no way meant to depreciate the rest of
your tales. This
story is the sort that especially appeals to me -- subject matter,
style and development. It
possesses unusual realism and convincingness, and is free from the
artificial sort of conversation so often dragged into tales in
order to conform to certain vague literary conventions.
I've noticed this freedom and ease in your other stories.
All in all, 'Doom Around the Corner' is one of the most
perfect short stories I've read in a long time."
Weird Tales, January 1928.
REH to Wilfred B. Talman, ca. September 1931 [SL 2
#57]: "You ask me for my candid opinion as to your prospects
as a writer. Candidly, I feel certain that anyone who can write as fine a
poem as 'The Haunted Isle' has splendid chances of reaching the
top of the game."
[H.P. Lovecraft to
REH, ca. October 1931: "Here's a new tale which Talman
asked me to send you, for subsequent return to him.
Very good for a short item, I think."]
REH to Talman, ca. October 1931: "I'm returning
herewith your stories, 'The Heads at Gywry' and 'Midnight Coach,'
which Mr. Lovecraft forwarded to me.
I liked them both immensely.
The first mentioned tale shows a remarkable sweep and depth
of imagination, and fine macabre development, like the slow
sinister beat of nameless drums in the distance. In that tale you have captured vividly a sense of
soul-shaking evil, and in the flight of the villagers, you have
worked out a sense of suspense and impending doom that is
fiendishly realistic and gripping.
Altogether a remarkable story."
REH to H.P.
Lovecraft , ca. 4 October 1931: "P.S. I have recieved and
read Talman's manuscript and think it splendidly done; I suppose
it will appear in Weird Tales."
[H.P. Lovecraft to
REH, ca. October 1931: "Here's a new tale which Talman
asked me to send you, for subsequent return to him.
Very good for a short item, I think."]
REH to Talman, ca. October 1931: "I'm returning
herewith your stories, 'The Heads at Gywry' and 'Midnight Coach,'
which Mr. Lovecraft forwarded to me.
I liked them both immensely.... In the other
["Midnight Coach"] I was much interested in your use of
the old Irish legend of the COISTE-CODNAR and the DULLAHANS."
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(1869-1946)
New York: Doubleday, Page &
Co., 1922. 30789;
PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1825-1878)
(1846).
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 9 August 1932: "This
writing of historical stories is hell in a way, though intensely
interesting. Its so
easy to make mistakes. For
instance I noted in his book of travels, Bayard Taylor, when
speaking of his explorations in Vienna, mentioned Count
Stahremberg as commanding Vienna in 1529, when, he said, Sobiesky
rescued the city from the siege of the Turks under the Grand
Vizier Muhammad. Stahremberg
hadnt been born in 1529. Count
Salm commanded then, and beat off, not Muhammad, who, with
Sobiesky was still in the womb of the unborn, but Suleyman the
Magnificent. It was
in 1683 that the others played their part.
And the Vizier was not Muhammad but Kara Mustafa."
[From Chapter XXII, "Vienna," in Views A-Foot:
"Here [in a wing of the Imperial Armoury] we saw…the armor
of Count Stahremberg, who commanded Vienna during the Turkish
siege in 1529, and the holy banner of Mahomet, taken at that time
from the Grand Vizier, together with the steel harness of John
Sobieski of Poland, who rescued Vienna from the Turkish troops
under Kara Mustapha…."]
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(1884-1933)
REH to Harold Preece, ca. December 1928 [SL 1 #20],
lists Teasdale among a number of notable women.
Mentioned also in "A
Fable for Critics."
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[1st Baron Tennyson, commonly called Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
(1809-1892).
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. December 1932: Tennyson
is listed among a number of poets Howard likes.
(ca. 1854)
One Who Walked Alone, p. 222: "'I'm
sorry,' he said contritely when he could get his breath, 'but I
could just see you getting up and walking down that road, knowing
you'd get beat up, but marching straight on.
Reminded me of Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the
Light Brigade." No
strategy. No
planning. No finesse.
Only one idea -- go straight on.'"
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REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 31 May 1935, quotes at
length from this document. The
source from which he quoted is not known.
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(1811-1863)
A Novel Without a
Hero
(1848).
One Who Walked Alone, p. 293: "'I can't
say much for Thackeray's Vanity Fair,' he said shortly.
'It's not worth a damn.'"
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(1877-1967)
[H.P. Lovecraft to
REH, postcard, 9 January 1932: "Thanks tremendously for
the varied material... Those Thevenin articles are fascinating --
although they represent a sort of wild speculation with not much
behind it. The
representation of Saturn is clearly a decorative coincidence, for
the rings as shown is unlike Saturn's rings.
All told, it isn't likely that any civilization existed
before 12,000 or 15,000 B.C., or elsewhere than in or near Asia.
From that the other spread or descended. Just how early accurate astronomical knowledge arose is
debatable -- but there is no good evidence of a falling-off from
some primal state of vast erudition.
But still -- the fictionist can weave his own
fables!"]
[H.P.
Lovecraft to REH,
postcard, 28 January 1932: "Thanks for the final Thevenin
article. Of course,
real anthropology -- & geology too -- shows all this
speculation to be flimsily chimerical, but it's interesting for
all that. It is just
possible that a continent did exist in the Indian Ocean at a
relatively late date, but comparison of fossil remains on all the
shores of the Atlantic & on islands like the Canaries, West
Indies, etc., proves that although these regions were indeed once
connected, that connexion was during an early geologic period when
man could not possibly have existed.
There are no recent forms of fauna & flora in
consequence -- only tertiary & pre-tertiary fossils."]
REH to Clark Ashton Smith, ca. 21 May 1934 [SL 2
#74]: "I seem to have a recollection of reading something by
Thevenin concerning Lemuria, though I can not recall just what it
was, as I did not read it very carefully at the time.
I am always a bit skeptical of these Sunday supplement
articles, as it seems they frequently sacrifice accuracy for
sensationalism; so I did not give Thevenin's article the attention
it probably deserved. At
any rate, the subject is a fascinating one for speculation."
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(1892-1981)
into Forbidden Afghanistan.
Revised Edition. Illustrated
with many original photographs taken by Harry A. Chase, F.R.G.S.,
and the author. New
York: Grosset and Dunlap [Century Vagabond Books], 1925.
30630 (as "Thomas Lowell"); PQ1; GL; TDB.
Still in HPU holdings.
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co. [Star
Books], 1924. 30636
(as "Lowell, Thomas"); PQ1; GL; TDB.
Still in HPU holdings.
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(1842-1884)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1932 [SL 2 #62]: "Benjamin wrote his autobiography, but I've never seen a
copy of it. From what
White intimates, it handles the truth with an easy abandon
reminiscent of Joan Lowell."
[Owen P. White (q.v.), in Lead and Likker, makes
liberal use of "Ben's own words," leading Howard to
believe that Thompson had written his autobiography.
These quotations were actually from Life and Adventures
of Ben Thompson, by Major W.M. ("Major Buck") Walton
(Austin, Texas: Edwards & Church, 1884). This book was written while Thompson was still alive, and
extensive sections are in his own words, according to Walton, who
was a close friend of Thompson's.
See also "Lowell."]
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(1897-
) (ed.).
The
"Not at Night" series
REH to Clark Ashton Smith, ca. March 1934 [SL 2
#73]: "P.S. Where do you get your Not at Night
anthologies? I've
been trying to locate a firm that handled them, but without
success."
REH
to Clark Ashton Smith, ca. 21 May 1934 [SL 2 #74]:
"Thanks very much for the tip on the Argus house.
I ordered the Not at Night books I wanted, but they
were out of them, and had to send to England for them.
I haven't yet received them."
[The "Not At Night" series]. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1932.
[H.P. Lovecraft
to REH, 7 November 1932: "(N.B. I suppose you know
that your 'Black Stone' is in the new 'Not at Night'
anthology.)"]
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: "No, I didn't know
my 'Black Stone' had landed in the 'Not At Night' anthology.
I'm so far off the beaten track of literature, that I get
only vague hints of what goes on in the world of pen and
ink."
[H.P.
Lovecraft to REH, 21 January 1933: "So you didn't know 'The
Black Stone' had landed in the 'Not at Night' anthology? That's odd, for you ought to have received a small cheque
from Charles Lovell (W.T.'s London agent) for the reprint rights.
Better ask Wright about it.
The address of the 'Not at Night' firm is as follows: Selwyn
& Blount, Paternoster House, Paternoster Row, London, E.C.Y.
[?], Eng."]
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. September 1933: "I've been laying
off to get the book that published my 'Black Stone' but haven't
ever got around to it."
[The "Not At Night" series].
London: Selwyn & Blount, 1933.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. September 1933: "I
understand that 'Worms of the Earth' is to appear in the 'Not at
Night' series."
[The "Not at Night"
series]. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1935.
REH to August W. Derleth, ca. October 1934: "I
haven't yet gotten a copy of the 'Terror by Night', but intend to
do so shortly." [Contains
"Rogues in the House."]
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(1805-1869) (ed.)
Cogadh
Gaedhel re Gaillabh. The War of the Gaedhil and the Gaill
or
the Invasion of Ireland by the Danes and Other Norsemen.
The original Irish text, edited with translation and
introduction by James H. Todd.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1867).
REH to Harry Bates, 1 June 1931: [In submitting
"Spears of Clontarf" for Clayton Publications' Torchlights
of History]: "In gathering material for this story I have
drawn on such sources as... 'The Wars of the Gaels with the
Galls..."
[It is likely that Howard’s true source for this was P.W. Joyce’s
A Short History of Gaelic Ireland [q.v.], in which the
chapters on “Brian Boru” and “The Battle of Clontarf” make use of
quoted material from this book, cited as “The Wars of the Gaels
with the Galls.” This is a very unusual rendering of the title.]
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(1828-1910)
In
untitled scenario (included in REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. week
of 20 February 1928): "What is London, what is Gorky, what is
Tolstoy to the average man - even the man who reads them? The
great writers die and fade into the dust of their works.
Their books become their bones and their volumes range the
shelves of fools, like withered mummies."
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(ca. 1371)
Hawk of Basti: (Jeremy Hawk) "It sounds like a
tale of Sir John Mandeville."
This was a book of travels, probably compiled originally in
French from early 14th century travel books, ascribed to Sir John
Mandeville. Some of
the accounts were probably authentic, others are frankly fabulous.
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(1896-1931)
Edited and
translated by B.K. Featherstone. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1928. 30718; PQ4; GL;
TDB.
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(1891-1947)
Mentioned in "Song of a Fugitive Bard."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Tully is listed among
those Howard refers to as "my favorite writers."
[Ibid.]: "As for American writers, I
think yourself and Jim Tully are the only ones whose work will
endure; among the writers now living, I mean."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 6 March 1933:
"...Frank Harris was once a boxer, and so was Jim
Tully..."
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(1883-1969)
Adventure, 15 July 1920.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 1 September 1921.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 1 August 1921.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 20 January 1922.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure,
1 July 1921.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 20 May 1922.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 30 April 1922.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 20 October 1921.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 15 September 1920.
[See Appendix Two]
Adventure, 20 February 1922.
[See Appendix Two]
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[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
Mentioned in "King Hootus" (parody,
included in REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928).
REH to
Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 [SL 2 #61]: "The river
lost its mysterious glory to Mark Twain after he became a pilot,
and grew familiar with the sandbars, snags and riffles."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Twain is
listed among those Howard refers to as "my favorite
writers."
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1884.
30679; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1876.
30619; PQ4; GL; TDB.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1894.
30653; PQ4; GL; TDB.
[First book publication in Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom
Sawyer, Detective, and Other Stories, Etc., Etc. New
York: Harper & Bros., 1896].
30766 (as "Mark, Twain"); PQ4; GL; TDB.
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