Autograph manuscript of an unpublished poem by H.P. Lovecraft, 26 lines in heroic couplets, signed "H.P.L. 1912", written on the back flyleaf of his copy of Daniel Wait Howe, The Puritan republic of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (1899). Lovecraft, who here calls himself "an outcast, sever'd from my race" and deplores the ruin of "ancestral ground, where, as a child, I play'd" by the "alien swarm that flock upon our shore", was clearly inspired by the final pages of The Puritan republic, in which Howe likewise, though in less provocative terms, denigrates the "changes in character of population of New England". Though it addresses the same theme in the same poetic form, it shares no lines with a much longer Lovecraft poem of the same title (first line "When, long ago, America was young"). The autograph ms. of the longer poem, now in the John Hay Library, is dated April 1912; in printed form it appears in Beyond the wall of sleep (1943), Collected poems (1963), and The ancient track: the complete poetical works of H.P. Lovecraft (2001)
A collection of correspondence to and from Providence-based speculative fiction author, Howard P. Lovecraft. Also contained are many of his original manuscripts.
