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Lovecraft, Howard P. to Wandrei, Donald

Description

Abstract:
HPL has favorably mentioned Wandrei's work to the Editor of Weird Tales "The early date of some of your work is indeed interesting - & would surely never be suspected from the text itself. I began concocting weird stuff incredible ages ago, & have some infantile things [ The Mysterious Ship, The Secret of the Grave, &c.] written when I was eight. The earliest tale that I continue to take seriously - The Beast in the Cave was written at the age of fourteen; & even this will have to be revised extensively before it can be published. My style in those days was a pompous Johnsonese, for I am an antiquarian by nature, & never used to read a modern book if I could possibly find anything with long S's to take its place. ... My novel - or novelette, since it came to 110 pages - is now finished, & I have given it the provisional title of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. I am not sure how well I like it, but you will certainly see it as soon as it is in typed form"
Notes:
Immediate form of acquisition: A56833
Lovecraft, Howard P. to Wandrei, Donald, Howard P. Lovecraft collection, Ms.Lovecraft, Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

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No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), "Lovecraft, Howard P. to Wandrei, Donald" (1927). Howard P. Lovecraft collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:423790/

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Collection:

  • Howard P. Lovecraft collection

    A collection of correspondence to and from Providence-based speculative fiction author, Howard P. Lovecraft, many of his original manuscripts, and a selection of photographs of Lovecraft, his friends and associates.
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