Title:

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

Creator/Contributor:

Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937

Creator/Contributor:

Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936, Correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Wright, Fransworth., Correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Howard, I. M., Correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Kline, Otis Adelbert.

Creator/Contributor:

Druid Press

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.

Date:

1923 (issued)

Subject:

Price, E. Hoffmann

Poetry -- Texas

Suicide

Also available on microfilm.

Publication prohibited.

Portraits transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1943.002--POR)

Type:

Poems.

1 portfolio (72 p.).

1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 554:4) and positive.

English

BANC MSS P-O 801

Origin:

Texas

Publication prohibited.