With short P.S. on verso of envelope postmarked Oct. 20, 1932. Enclosed is a newspaper photo of a herd of walrus sunning themselves on an ice flow. Closes by noting: "Belknap read my "Shadow Over Innsmouth" & thought it showed a decline in the old man's powers. Between that opinion & Comte d'Erlette's annihilation of "Witch House", I'm about ready to fade from the map. Incidentally - my present ghosting job amounts virtually to the writing of an original story" [i.e. The Man of Stone for Hazel Heald]. Newspaper photo has been copied.
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Immediate form of acquisition: A56966
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/)
A collection of correspondence to and from Providence-based speculative fiction author, Howard P. Lovecraft. Also contained are many of his original manuscripts.
