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Wall,
Otto Augustus | Wallace,
Lew | Walpole,
Horace | Wandrei,
Donald | Wandrei,
Howard | Ward,
Christopher | Ward,
Lynd Kendall | Watson,
Mrs. James | Webb,
Walter Prescott | Weird
Tales | Wells,
Herbert George | Westcott,
Edward Noyes | Wharton,
Clarence Ray | White,
Owen P. | White,
Stewart Edward | Whitehead,
Henry S. | Whitney,
Elliott | Wickwar,
J.W. | Witchcraft
and The Black Art | Wilde,
Oscar | Wilder,
Thornton Niven | Wiley,
Hugh | Williams,
Henry Smith | Williamson,
Jack | Wissler,
Clark | Witwer,
H.C. | Wolff,
Adolf | Woman;
in all ages and in all countries | Wood,
Clement | Wood,
Henry | Woolcott,
Alexander Humphreys
(1846-1922)
(Phallic Worship); A Scientific
Treatise on Sex, Its Nature and Function, and Its Influence on
Art, Science, Architecture, and Religion; With Special Reference
to Sex Worship and Symbolism; With Three Hundred Seventy-Two
Illustrations. St.
Louis, Missouri: C.V. Mosby, 1919.
30627; PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1827-1905)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. February 1931:
"President Hayes took the governorship away from Axtell and
gave it to Wallace – who, by the way, while writing 'Ben Hur'
had to keep his shutters close drawn lest a bullet from the Kid's
six-shooter put a sudden termination to both book and
author."
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[4th Earl of Orford]
(1717-1797)
(1764).
From "The Children of the Night": "But look
there...sandwiched between that nightmare of Huysmans', and
Walpole's Castle of Otranto – Von Junzt's Nameless
Cults."
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(1908-1987)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. September 1930 [SL 1
#43], thanks H.P. Lovecraft for
giving him Wandrei's address, "I am usually so busy I don't
know when I'll have the time to write..."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. December 1931:
"Your remarks regarding the sizes of Talman, Wandrei, etc.,
remind me of a question I've been intending to ask for some time,
regarding Wandrei, whose poems I have often read with great
appreciation in Weird Tales.
Of what nationality is he, and does he devote all his time
to literature, or if not what sort of business is he in?
I realize that none of these matters is any of my business,
but his verses have created an interest in him, and they seem to
indicate a close study of literary forms and styles."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. January 1932:
"Thanks very much for the opportunity of seeing Wandrei's
picture -- which I'm returning.
He seems to be enviably tall, and certainly has a fine
head. I have often
admired the depth of his imagination, both in his prose and his
verse. I had no idea
he was as young as he is."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 2 March 1932: "I
certainly hope Wandrei places his novel, which, judging from such
of his work as I have had the pleasure of reading, I am sure is
splendid."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 24 May 1932: "Your mention of
Wandrei, in connection with Minnesota dust-storms, reminds me to
ask about the book-length weird story he was writing.
Has he finished it yet, and if so, has he found a buyer?
I hope he has, or will be able to market it.
His work shows a deep imagination, and a delicate touch in
plot-development."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 2 November 1932 [SL 2 #65]:
"Thanks for Wandrei's address.
I'm so swamped with work that I hesitate to begin any new
correspondence, but I do intend to write him some day, as he is an
author whose work I sincerely admire."
REH to August W. Derleth, ca. December 1932 [SL 2
#71]: "Frankly, it seems to me that the average
pseudo-scientific tale (always excepting the really fine work of
such men as Wandrei, Williamson, Keller and a few others) is
pretty poor stuff..."
Weird Tales, July 1932.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 13 July 1932: "I
was much taken with Wandrei's recent poem, 'The Little Gods Wait'.
It had a distinctly Celtic flavor; so much so that I would
not have believed that anyone besides an Irishman could have
written it. I have always highly admired Wandrei's work, and I believe I
like that poem better than anything else of his I ever read."
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(1909-1956)
Weird
Tales, September 1932.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 9 August 1932: "I
also like the story by Howard Wandrei -- Donald's brother,
perhaps? If so,
please extend to him my congratulations and welcome to the
fraternity of fantastic fictionists."
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(1868-1943)
Being an account of
His Service in the Warre in Hungaria with the Turks; his Single
Combats with three Turkish Champions, wherein he was victorious,
and how he was taken Prisoner by the Turks and Sold for a Slave
and of his Escape therefrom; Also his Expedition into Virginia and
his Adventures there among the Salvages; being in Peril of his
Life, but saved by an Indian Princess; Furthermore his
Observations in New England.
New York: Harper & Bros., 1928.
30682; PQ4; GL; TDB.
[A book-length parody in verse.]
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(1905-1985)
A Novel in Woodcuts. New York: J. Cape
& H. Smith, 1929. 30608;
PQ4; GL; TDB.
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Mission, Texas: Issued by The Lower Rio Grande Valley and Its
Builders, Inc., 1931. 30663; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still
in HPU holdings.
Note in PQ1: "This book is inscribed on the front free
endpaper, 'Mrs. James Watson | Mission | Texas.'
Pages [348-352] are blank pages with the heading
'Autographs.' Page
[348] bears three signatures: 'Richard Davis, | Robert J. Moore, |
David M. King - Rio Hondo.'
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(1888-1963)
Boston: Ginn & Co., 1931.
30721; PQ4; GL; TDB.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, 13 May 1936: "Let us see
what Professor Walter Prescott Webb says, in his great book, 'The
Great Plains' about the idea that the West is only an undeveloped
extension of Eastern America." [He quotes passages from Webb
for about two pages. The
citations, with page numbers in the 1931 edition, are as follows:
"The historical truth...," p. 8; "The great plains
offered...," p. 8; "As one contrasts...," p. 8;
"An effort to understand...," p. 10; "To whom did
the West...," p. 495 (some omissions not noted by ellipses);
"If we could dispel...," p. 244; "The salient
truth...," p. 507. He
also quotes John Wesley Powell (q.v.),
Clark Wissler (q.v.), and
Francisco Coronado (q.v.) as quoted by Webb.
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Howard's first known mention of Weird Tales was in REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, 7 July 1923: "I sent a story to the
Weird Tales, 'The Phantom of Old Egypt,' which I suppose they will
turn down." He contributed 49 stories and 20 poems to this magazine prior
to his death. In all
likelihood, he read most issues from 1924 following.
He had letters published in the issues for June 1927, May
1928, November 1929, April 1930, January 1931, and March 1932, and
June 1936.
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(1866-1946)
Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1920.
4 vols. 30644
(Vol 1) - 30647 (Vol 4) (author as "Wells, H.C."); PQ4;
GL; TDB.
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(1846-1898)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, 7 July 1923, in a listing of
parodic book titles is "'David's Harem,' by Edward Noyes
Westcott" [David Harum, 1898]
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(1873-1941)
the Story of the Great Chief of the Kiowas and His People.
Dallas: Banks Upshaw & Co., 1935.
30649; PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1879-1946)
New
York: Minton, Balch and Co., 1932.
30689; PQ1; GL; TDB. Still in HPU holdings.
[Contents: "Five El Paso Worthies" (the deaths of
John Wesley Hardin, John Selman, George Scarbrough, Pat Garrett,
and Mannen Clements); "Salt of the Earth"; "Jack
Hays"; "Buckets of Blood" (William Clarke Quantrill);
"Reminiscences of Texas Divines"; "Henry
Plummer"; "Big Foot Wallace"; "John Glanton";
"Ferd Patterson"; "Belle Starr"; "Hendry
Brown"; "Chris Evans"; "Ben Thompson";
"The Art of Drink on the Border."]
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 [SL 2 #61]:
"While I was in Fort Worth I got a book, 'Lead and Licker' by
O.P. White. Good
stuff; told with a zip, and apparently authentic -- in spots,
though his information about Big Foot Wallace doesn't always jibe
with Big Foot's autobiography.
But he evidently knows his stuff about Ben Thompson, John
Wesley Hardin, John Selman, Quantrell, John Glanton, Ferd
Patterson, and the rest."
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1932 [SL 2 #62]:
"Benjamin [Thompson] 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."
[See "Thompson."]
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(1872-1946)
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902.
30623; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. 30597; PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1882-1932)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. June 1931 [SL 2 #53]:
"I'll most assuredly watch for Whitehead's new story; and I
appreciate his salutation on the card.
I hope that his ill-health has not seriously impaired that
remarkable muscular development of his which inspired so much
admiration among the people of the West Indies; did he show you
his feat of tearing a pack of cards into halves and quarters with
his bare hands?"
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 [SL 2 #61]: "Whitehead
is a good scout, and once, I understand, just about ran things on
an island in the West Indies.
He's some sort of a cleric -- Price seems rather uncertain
as to whether he's an Episcopal bishop or a Catholic priest.
I'm inclined to the latter view."
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 24 May 1932: "P.S.
I just recieved the Whitehead letter.
Thanks very much for forwarding it to me.
I dont know how I managed to be so careless as to neglect
to give Mr. Whitehead my address.
I'd already decided not to make any contract with the agent
in question, and had written him to that effect.
Mr. Whitehead's letter certainly clinches the matter."
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932: "An
agency wrote me wanting to handle my stuff for a year or so.
They bragged on what they'd done for Whitehead; I wrote
Whitehead and he replied cryptically that he considered himself
heap damn' fortunate to have gotten out of their talons as soon as
he did."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 6 March 1933: "In an attempt to
further make my position understood, let me quote from a letter
written to Mr. Hoffmann, editor of Adventure, by your friend
Whitehead (1923). He
said in part:" [Quotes a bit more than half a page; this
includes an account of Whitehead's trick of tearing a pack of
cards in half, and then quartering it (see above).
The quotation is excerpted from Whitehead's letter,
published in "The Camp Fire" (Adventure's letters
column), 10 November 1923, pp. 177-179.] "If Mr. Whitehead
had not felt a certain pride in his muscles, it's not likely he'd
have included the above remarks in a letter intended for
publication in a magazine. It
is not to be supposed that he was unduly conceited about his
strength, or that he 'glorified the physical above the mental', or
that his whole life was wrapped up in tearing cards."
Adventure,
15 July 1931.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 10 August 1931: "I
read Whitehead's 'Black Beast' and wrote him my appreciation of
the tale.'
Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, June 1932.
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 [SL 2 #61]:
"His current yarn in Strange Tales has a surprizing amount of
sword-heaving. I
wonder if he's showing the effects of my blood-letting."
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[house
name]
Chicago:
Reilly & Britton Co., 1912. 30734; PQ4; GL; TDB.
"Elliott
Whitney" was a house name used for "The Boys' Big Game
Series." The King Bear of Kodiak Island was written by
Harry Lincoln Sayler (1863-
), who wrote at least three other titles in the series.
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(1874-
)
A book dealing with the psychology and
folklore of the witches. London:
Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1925. 30655
(author as "Wicker, J.W."); PQ4 (same as accessions
list); GL (same as accessions list); TDB (title as "The Black
Art").
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(1854-1900)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, 23 June 1926:
"...Oscar Wilde's life was a long struggle against his
bi-sexuality. For
Wilde was a moralist, secretly."
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, 21 August 1926:
"Wilde wasn't a pervert, though he was highly
bi-sexual."
Mentioned
in "The Rump of Swift" (parody, included in REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928).
Post Oaks and Sand
Roughs, p. 87: "Steve [Costigan = REH] discovered
Wilde, Swinburne, and Viereck."
[Ibid., p. 89]: "He [Costigan] also
studied Wilde for the villanelle, and produced one, also."
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 [SL 1
#17]: "You're a mixture of Aristophanes and Diogenes, of
Wilde and Dean Swift."
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929: "I detest as men,
John L. Sullivan, Oscar Wilde and George Sylvester Viereck but I
enjoy their creations whether a sonnet of ice and steel or the
echo of a right hook floating down the years."
"Man Am I": "For I've known labor
with no reward and toiling with never a gain, | And the flames
that tormented Oscar Wilde and tortured Paul Verlaine."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Wilde is listed among a
number of poets Howard likes.
Robert H. Barlow found a typewritten copy of this poem
among poetry mss. sent to him by Howard's father after REH's
death.
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(1897-1975)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929: "I
saw Lily Damita for the first time yesterday in a show at Cisco --
Thornton Wilder's muck put in movies."
[Lili Damita was featured in The Bridge of San Luis Rey,
MGM, 1929.]
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(1884-1969)
New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921.
30778; PQ4; GL; TDB.
New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920.
30702; PQ4; GL; TDB.
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(1863-1943) (ed.)
A
Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations
from the Earliest Times as recorded by over Two Thousand of the
Great Writers of All Ages. Edited
with the Assistance of a Distinguished Board of Advisers and
Contributors by Henry Smith Williams, LL.D.
In Twenty-Seven Volumes. Volume XXI—Scotland and Ireland;
England Since 1792. London
& New York: Encyclopædia Britannica, 1904 [5th ed., 1926].
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft , ca. 1 July 1930 [SL 1 #39 (mistakenly
dated "9 August 1930")]: "...I quote from The
History of Ireland, edited by Henry Smith Williams: 'Early writers
pointed out..." The quotation is from "The History of Ireland,"
Chapter 1, p. 336. The quotation from Bede, beginning "At
first this island..." is from "The History of
Scotland," Chapter 1, p. 7.
Howard then writes: "I think such Latin authors as
mention the above matters agree with this account [i.e., Bede's],
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."
Compare the
following, from "The History of Scotland," p. 7
(following the above-mentioned quotation from Bede): "This
statement in its main points (apart from the country from which
the Picts are said to have come) is confirmed by Latin authors, in
whose meagre notices the Picts appear before the Scots are
mentioned, and both occur later than the Britons; by the legends
of the three Celtic races; by the narratives of Gildas and Nennius,
the only British Celtic historians, the Irish Annals, and
the Pictish Chronicle."
"Henry Smith Williams' History of Ireland: 'The last
of the prehistoric races...'" is from "History of
Ireland," Chapter 1, p. 332, considerably cut up.
"I quote again from Williams' History of Ireland:
'This struggle....'" is from "The History of
Ireland," p. 333.
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[John
Stewart Williamson] (1908-
).
REH to August W. Derleth, ca. December 1932 [SL 2
#71]: "Frankly, it seems to me that the average
pseudo-scientific tale (always excepting the really fine work of
such men as Wandrei, Williamson, Keller and a few others) is
pretty poor stuff..."
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(1870-1947)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1923.
Crowell's Social Science Series.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, 13 May 1936: "Wissler,
in 'Man and Culture' says: 'It appears that topography, fauna and
flora form an environment-complex, and as such go far to determine
the areas of cultural diffusion and though we once said that
culture mocks at the boundaries set up by politics, we may now add
that it approaches geographical boundaries with its hat in its
hand.'"
The quotation is from p. 136 of the book (it seems
likely, however, that Howard took the quotation from Walter
Prescott Webb (q.v.), The Great Plains, p. 3, as his
version follows that quotation in not noting with ellipses some
insignificant omissions from the passage cited.) [See also
"Boas,
Franz."]
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(1890-1929)
a Sequel to "The Leather
Pushers". New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924.
30716; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Illustrated with scenes from
the photoplay The Universal - Jewel - Collier's Series of Romances
of the Ring. New
York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1921.
30729 (as "Witwar, H.C."); PQ1; GL; TDB.
Still in HPU holdings.
Note in PQ1: "The
front endpaper contains the following inscription. "To -
R.E.H. | in memory of the | summer of 1927 -- in | which we decide
upon | the fact that we are | economicially [sic] and
intellectually superior | and etc! Also don't | forget our
opinions on | other subjects ranging | from prizefighting to |
birth control! | T[ruett] V[inson] | June 27, 1927 -- "
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(1887-1944)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928, quotes
from Wolff's "Scenario," "Songs, Sighs and Coises,"
one other unidentified (or untitled) verse, all taken from The
Truth About Greenwich Village by Clement Wood (q.v.), pp.
15-16.
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Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, 1907. Limited to One Thousand Numbered Copies.
Illustrated. 30579-30588; PQ4; GL; TDB.
Vol. I, Greek Women, Mitchell Carroll, Ph.D.; Volume
II, Roman Women, Rev. Alfred Brittain; Vol. III, Women
of Early Christianity, Rev. Alfred Brittain and Mitchell
Carroll, Ph.D.; Vol. IV, Oriental Women, Edward B. Pollard,
Ph.D.; Vol. V, Women of Mediæval France, Pierce Butler,
Ph.D.; Vol. VI, Women of the Romance Countries, John R.
Effinger, Ph.D.; Vol. VII, Women of Modern France, Hugo P.
Thieme, Ph.D.; Vol. VIII, Women of the Teutonic Nations,
Hermann Schoenfeld, Ph.D, LL.D.; Vol. IX, Women of England,
Bartlett Burleigh James, Ph.D.; Vol. X, Women of America,
John Rouse Larus.
[I
have seen one volume (Vol. X) of a less-expensive edition
published by The Rittenhouse Press, Philadelphia (n.d.).
This is a series of scholarly works on the history of
women.]
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(1888-1950)
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., [1926]. Little Blue Book 1106.
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928: "I've
been reading a little about life in Greenwich, (Clement Wood)
heres some vers libre extant there:" [quotes verse from Adolf
Wolff (q.v.), Robert Carlton Brown (q.v.),
Maxwell Bodenheim
(q.v.), and quotes other passages in which are named [Rev. Charles
W.] Wood, Floyd Dell (q.v.),
Alan Seeger (q.v.), James
Oppenheim,
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (q.v.), and Theodore Dreiser (q.v.).
The quoted matter is all from pages 14-21.
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(1834-1909)
A
Restorative System for Home and Private Use; Preceded by a Study
of the Laws of Mental Healing.
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1893.
30722; PQ4; GL; TDB (all have "Ideal Suggestion for
Mental Photography").
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(1887-1943)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. January 1934:
"Alexander Woolcott is a regular feature [over the radio],
and I like to listen to him occasionally, though I can hardly
endure his effeminate voice."
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