Robert Ervin Howard poems and related papers : Cross Plains, Texas, 1923-1940.

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Robert Ervin Howard poems and related papers : Cross Plains, Texas, 1923-1940.

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The poems, in typescript and manuscript, were assembled about 1939, with a view to publication, a project afterwards carried out under the title Always Comes Evening; the Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard (Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1957) The accompanying papers include the Ms. of an article by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard"; a copy of a 1931 letter from Howard to Farnsworth Wright; reminiscences of Howard by E. Hoffman Price; three letters and a postcard to Lovecraft by I.M. Howard concerning the suicide of his son; newspaper clippings concerning his death and funeral; excerpts of letters by Howard to Lovecraft; a reprint of a high school essay by Howard, "What the Nation Owes to the South," originally published in the Brownwood, Texas, Bulletin, 1923; and a copy of a letter, February 15, 1940, from the Druid Press of San Francisco to Otis Adelbert Kline concerning publication of the poems.

Originals : 72 p. ; 28 cm.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 554:4) and positive.

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