6. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 5 April 1931 (SL III.369–70).
7. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 13 May 1921 (SL I.132).
8. Steven J. Mariconda, ‘On Lovecraft’s “Amissa Minerva” ’, Etchings and Odysseys No. 9 [1986]: 97–103.
9. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 23 August 1916 (SL I.24).
10. Thomas Henry Huxley, Man’s Place in Nature (1894), p. 233.
11. De Camp, Lovecraft, pp. 95–99.
12. Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of an Idea in America (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963), p. 348.
13. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 13 June 1936 (SL V.266).
14. HPL to the Gallomo, 30 September 1919 (SL I.89).
15. James F. Morton, ‘“Conservatism” Gone Mad’, In a Minor Key No. 2 [1915]: [15–16].
16. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 23 May 1917 (SL I.45–46).
17. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 27 August 1917 (SL I.49).
18. See note 16.
19. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 22 June 1917 (SL I.48).
20. HPL to John T. Dunn, 6 July 1917 (ms., JHL).
21. Samuel Eliot Morison et al., The Growth of the American Republic, 7th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 2:285.
22. HPL to Zealia Bishop, 13 February 1928 (SL II.229).
23. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 10 November 1931 (SL III.434).
24. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 15 May 1918 (SL I.64).
25. SL III.370 (note 6).
26. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 4 February 1934 (SL IV.355). 27. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 6 December 1915 (SL I.18). 28. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 30 September 1915 (SL I.14). 29. ‘Extracts from the Letters to G. W. Macauley’ (1938), Lovecraft Studies 1, No. 3 (fall 1980): 14. Chapter Seven
1. HPL to Richard Ely Morse, 30 August [1932] (ms., JHL).
2. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 8 March 1929 (SL II.315).
3. HPL to the Gallomo, [January 1920] (AHT).
4. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 15 May 1918 (SL I.62).
5. See note 3.
6. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 8 November 1917 (SL I.51).
7. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 23 December 1917 (SL I.52).
8. Samuel Eliot Morison et al., The Growth of the American Republic, 2:112.
9. Cook, In Memoriam, in Lovecraft Remembered, pp. 110–11.
10. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 24 September 1917 (SL I.49).
11. Rheinhart Kleiner, ‘A Memoir of Lovecraft’ (1949), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 195.
12. HPL to Winifred Virginia Jackson, 7 June 1921 (SL I.138).
13. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 21 September 1921 (SL I.152–33).
14. Samuel Loveman, ‘Howard Phillips Lovecraft’ (1949), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 204.
15. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 23 April 1921 (SL I.128).
16. L. Sprague de Camp, ‘Young Man Lovecraft’, p. 144.
17. HPL to Alfred Galpin, 27 May 1918 (ms., JHL).
18. HPL to John T. Dunn, 14 October 1916 (ms., JHL).
19. Clara Hess in August Derleth, ‘Lovecraft’s Sensitivity’, in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 35.
20. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 23 May 1917 (SL I.46).
21. Faig, Parents, p. 29.
22. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 18 January 1919 (SL I.78).
23. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 19 March 1919 (SL I.80).
24. See note 19.
25. HPL to Arthur Harris, 23 August 1915 (ms., JHL).
26. George Julian Houtain, ‘Lovecraft’ (1921), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 87.
27. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 26 January 1921 (SL I.122). Chapter Eight
1. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 19 March 1919 (SL I.81).
2. Scott, p. 16.
3. Epgephi, Sept. 1920, pp. 6, 21.
4. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 10 September 1920; ‘By Post from Providence’, Californian 5, No. 1 (Summer 1937): 20.
5. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 27 September 1919 (SL I.88). 6. See George T. Wetzel and R. Alain Everts, Winifred Virginia Jackson— Lovecraft’s Lost Romance ([Madison, WI: Strange Co.,] 1976).
7. Ibid.
8. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 14 September 1919 (SL I.87). 9. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 7 March 1920 (SL I.112).
10. Ibid. (SL I.111–12).
11. Oscar Wilde, ‘Preface’ to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). 12. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 14 April 1929 (SL II.328). 13. HPL to Richard Ely Morse, 28 July 1932 (ms.).
14. See note 12.
15. Tryout 5, No. 12 (December 1919): 12.
16. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 3 June 1923 (SL I.234). 17. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 19 November 1920 (AHT). 18. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 7 March 1920 (SL I.110).
19. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 3 December 1919 (SL I.93). 20. Lord Dunsany, Letter to August Derleth (28 March 1952), quoted in Lovecraft Studies No. 14 (spring 1987): 38.
21. HPL to Edwin Baird, [c. October 1923]; Weird Tales, March 1924. 22. Will Murray, ‘Behind the Mask of Nyarlathotep’, Lovecraft Studies No. 25 (fall 1991): 25–29.
23. Donald R. Burleson, ‘On Lovecraft’s Themes: Touching the Glass’, in An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H. P. Lovecraft, ed. David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991), p.135.
24. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 19 June 1931 (SL III.379). Chapter Nine
1. Scott, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, p. 17.
2. HPL to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 1 June 1921 (SL I.133).
3. Faig, Parents, p. 40.
4. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 5 April 1931 (SL III.370).
5. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 15 June 1925 (ms., JHL).
6. Rheinhart Kleiner, ‘A Memoir of Lovecraft’, in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 197.
7. Alfred Galpin, ‘Memories of a Friendship’ (1959), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 170.
8. Davis, Private Life, p. 15.
9. HPL to the Gallomo, 21 August 1921 (AHT).
10. Davis, Private Life, p. 24.
11. HPL to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 14 June 1922 (SL I.185–86).
12. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 29 September 1922 (SL I.199). 13. HPL to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 3 October 1921 (SL I.154). 14. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 8 October 1921 (SL I.158). 15. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 17 June 1922 (SL I.188).
16. HPL to Samuel Loveman, 17 November [1922]; Letters to Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett, pp. 9–10.
17. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 18 May 1922 (SL I.176).
18. Davis, Private Life, p. 16.
19. SL I.180 (note 17).
20. Davis, Private Life, p. 17.
21. Sonia H. Davis to Winfield Townley Scott, 11 December 1948 (ms., JHL).
22. Davis, Private Life, p. 19.