Dated by HPL: "Nov 1 - '18." "'Col. Linkaby Didd', to whom the lines are inscribed, is an imaginary character figuring frequently in the local Journal. Like Sir Roger de Coverly he is supposed to be an odd rural character, residing at 'Nooseneck Hill, in the town of Exeter' -- the most desolate and remote spot conceivable in Rhode Island. 'Col. Didd' always takes the wrong side of public questions, arguing picturesquely and illiterately, with many comic blunders and perversions of the Malaprop variety" (HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 1918 Nov. 25, T35: 68-70).
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Immediate form of acquisition: A32500 [316]
To Col. Linkaby Didd Guardian of Democracy, 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.
