25. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 20–21 May 1930 (ms., JHL).
26. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, [c. 3 September 1930] (SLIII. 164).
27. Steven J. Mariconda, ‘Tightening the Coiclass="underline" The Revision of “The Whisperer in Darkness”’, Lovecraft Studies No. 32 (spring 1995): 12–17. Chapter Sixteen
1. Quoted in Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957), p. 104.
2. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 20 February 1929 (SL II.265).
3. SL II.261 (note 2).
4. SL II.266–67 (note 2).
5. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 22 November 1930 (SL III.228). 6. Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948), p. 23.
7. HPL to James F. Morton, 30 October 1929 (SL III.53). 8. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, [April 1928] (SL II.234). 9. HPL to James F. Morton, 6 November 1930 (SL III.208). 10. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 22 February 1931 (SL III.293–96). 11. ‘Behind the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic in 1930’, Lovecraft Studies No. 14 (Spring 1987): 31–38.
12. Robert M. Price, ‘Demythologizing Cthulhu’, in H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990). 13. Jules Zanger, ‘Poe’s Endless Voyage: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’, Papers on Language and Literature 22 (Summer 1986): 282. 14. HPL to August Derleth, 24 March [1931] (ms., SHSW). 15. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 7 August 1931 (SL III.395).
16. SL III.395–96 (note 15).
17. HPL to August Derleth, [1929] (ms., SHSW).
18. HPL to August Derleth, 4 March 1932 (ms., SHSW). 19. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, [20 November 1931] (SL III. 435). 20. HPL to August Derleth, 10 December 1931 (ms., SHSW). 21. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 18 February 1932 (SL IV.17). 22. Farnsworth Wright to August Derleth, 17 January 1933 (ms., SHSW).
23. Clark Ashton Smith to August Derleth, 24 December 1932 (ms., SHSW).
24. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 28 August 1931 (AHT).
25. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 3 November 1930 (SL III.205–6). Chapter Seventeen
1. HPL to August Derleth, 23 December 1931 (ms., SHSW).
2. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 25 February 1932 (ms., JHL).
3. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 8–10 July 1931 (ms., JHL).
4. HPL to August Derleth, 16 January 1931 (ms., SHSW).
5. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 7 November 1932 (SL IV.104).
6. HPL to August Derleth, 9 October 1931 (ms., SHSW).
7. ‘Lovecraft’s Cosmic Imagery’, in Schultz and Joshi, An Epicure in the Terrible, p. 192.
8. See Fritz Leiber, ‘Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin: Lovecraft’s Contribution to Speculative Fiction’, in Lovecraft’s The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1966), pp. 171–73.
9. ‘An Interview with Harry K. Brobst’, Lovecraft Studies Nos 22/23 (fall 1990): 24–26.
10. HPL to August Derleth, 6 June 1932 (ms., SHSW).
11. E. Hoffmann Price, ‘The Man Who Was Lovecraft’ (1949), in Lovecraft Remembered, pp. 288–90.
12. HPL to James F. Morton, 5 July 1932 (SL IV.47).
13. Cook, In Memoriam, in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 131.
14. Hazel Heald to August Derleth, 30 September 1944; quoted in a footnote in The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (1970 ed.), p. 27. 15. HPL to E. Hoffmann Price, 20 October 1932 (ms., JHL). 16. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 26 March 1935 (SL V.130). 17. Price, ‘The Man Who Was Lovecraft’, p. 291.
18. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 24 March 1933 (SL IV.158).
19. ‘The Man Who Was Lovecraft’, p. 291.
20. HPL to E. Hoffmann Price, 7 December 1932 (SL IV.116–17). 21. HPL to Duane W. Rimel, 12 September 1934 (SL V..33). 22. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 4 April 1932 (SL IV.37). 23. Davis, Private Life, p. 17.
24. HPL to Donald Wandrei, 21 February 1933 (ms., JHL). Chapter Eighteen
1. HPL to Carl F. Strauch, 31 May 1933 (ms., JHL).
2. HPL to Carl F. Strauch, 18 March 1933 (ms., JHL).
3. Davis, Private Life, pp. 22–23.
4. HPL to Alfred Galpin, 24 June 1933 (SL IV.215).
5. Price, ‘The Man Who Was Lovecraft’, p. 293.
6. HPL to Allen G. Ullman, 16 August 1933 (ms., JHL).
7. See my essay, ‘Autobiography in Lovecraft’, Lovecraft Studies No. 1 (fall 1979): 7–19.
8. Helen V. Sully, ‘Memories of Lovecraft: II’ (1969), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 278.
9. Samuel Loveman, ‘Lovecraft as a Conversationalist’ (1958), in Lovecraft Remembered, pp. 210–11.
10. For a comprehensive discussion of Lovecraft’s three trips to Florida (1931, 1934, and 1935), see Stephen J. Jordan, ‘H. P. Lovecraft in Florida’, Lovecraft Studies Nos 42/43 (forthcoming).
11. Barlow, ‘The Wind that Is in the Grass’, in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 358.
12. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 29 June 1934 (ms., JHL).
13. HPL to E. Hoffmann Price, 31 August 1934 (SL V.24–25).
14. HPL to Duane W. Rimel, 13 May 1934 (ms., JHL).
15 HPL to R. H. Barlow, 25 September 1934 (ms., JHL).
16. HPL to Kenneth Sterling, 14 December 1935; cited in Sterling’s ‘Caverns Measureless to Man’ (1975), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 376.
17. HPL to August Derleth, 30 December 1934 (ms., SHSW).
18. HPL to August Derleth, [February 1928] (ms., SHSW).
19. HPL to August Derleth, 7 August 1935 (ms., SHSW). 20. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, [11 November 1930] (SL III.217); HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, [2 March 1932] (SL IV.25–26).
21. HPL to E. Hoffmann Price, 18 November 1934 (SL V.71). Chapter Nineteen
1. HPL to Jennie K. Plaisier, 8 July 1936 (SL V.279).
2. HPL to Woodburn Harris, 25 February–1 March 1929 (SL II.
290,308).
3. HPL to C. L. Moore, [c. mid-October 1936] (SL V.321). 4. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 25 July 1932 (SL IV.51).
5. HPL to R. H. Barlow, [17 December 1933] (ms., JHL). 6. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 7 November 1932 (SL IV.106–07). 7. HPL to James F. Morton, [3 February 1932] (SL IV.13). 8. HPL to Henry George Weiss, 3 February 1937 (SL V.392). 9. HPL to C. L. Moore, [7 February 1937] (SL V.402).
10. HPL to Elizabeth Toldridge, 22 December 1932 (SL IV.124). 11. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 13 March 1935 (SL V.122).
12. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 10 February 1935 (ms., JHL). 13. HPL to C. L. Moore, [August 1936] (SL V.297).
14. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 27 December 1936 (ms., JHL).
15. SL V.293–94 (note 13).
16. SL V.397–98 (note 9).
17. SL V.329 (note 3).
18. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 25 September 1933 (SL IV.253). 19. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 25 September 1933 (SL IV.257). 20. ‘An Interview with Harry Brobst’, p. 29.
21. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 30 July 1933 (SL IV.230–31). 22. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 8–11 November 1933 (SL IV.307). 23. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 15 October 1927 (SL II.176). 24. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 8–11 November 1933 (ms.).