File:Lovecraft postcard to CAS.jpg

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English: Postcard from Howard Phillips Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, December 14th 1933.

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Well — no sooner had my epistle gone out of the house that the expressman brought your welcome packet — the “Geography” & the “Lady”. Have thumbed through the pages of the former, & it looks as though it promises an even rarer feast than the kindred volumes I have recently read. [?Old] Monty’s scholarship certainly is profound to the very last degree. I shall be interested to see how far the “Lady” comes forward justifying the intemperate admiration of Comte d’Erlette & Jehvish-Ei. ¶ “Dark Chamber“ & cuttings will go on the road as soon as I get down town. The weather has slightly moderated, so that I may make it today or tomorrow. ¶ This card shews a finely panelled room taken from an old house at the front of the hill not so very far from here. I never saw it in its original site, but have visited it in its present Brooklyn habitat. Another room from the same [?house] is in a museum in Minneapolis, Minn — young Melmoth’s home territory. The old brick house, stripped of its fine woodwork, still stands — in a neighbourhood of slowly decaying commercialism.
Yrs with the blessing of Nefren-Ka-
Ech-Pi-El
[P.S.] Glad to see the item about Crowley. What a queer duck! He is the original of Clinton in Wakefield’s “They Return at Evening.”
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Source http://miskatonicbooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/when-the-gods-smile-on-you/
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H. P. Lovecraft  (1890–1937)  wikidata:Q169566 s:en:Author:Howard Phillips Lovecraft q:en:H. P. Lovecraft
 
H. P. Lovecraft
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pseudonym: Ward Phillips; Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Lovecraft; Howard P. Lovecraft; HPL; E'ch-Pi-El; Grandpa Theobald
Description American novelist, poet, journalist, science fiction writer, essayist and writer
Date of birth/death 20 August 1890 Edit this at Wikidata 15 March 1937 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Providence Providence
Work period 1917 Edit this at Wikidata–15 March 1937 Edit this at Wikidata
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Providence Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q169566

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