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Robert E. Howard: Selected Letters 1931-1936

Robert E. Howard

First published 1991
Series Robert E. Howard Letters
Publisher Necronomicon Press
Format Pamphlet
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Robert H. Knox
Pages vi+79
Price $9.95
ISBN 0940884372


Edited by Glenn Lord. Saddle stapled, wraps. Cover artist credited on copyright page. "First printing" on copyright page. Letters are footnoted by the editor to clarify content.

Year Reviewer Publication
1990 Don D'Ammassa Science Fiction Chronicle, #130 July 1990
1991 Don Herron Necrofile, Summer 1991
1991 Richard L. Tierney The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies, #2 July 1991
1991 Don D'Ammassa Science Fiction Chronicle, #143 September 1991

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa March 1931 ("Dear Finn: / I don't have to tell you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
1 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, May 9, 1931 from Marlin, Texas ("Dear Finn: / Have youse heard anything more...") Robert E. Howard Essay
2 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, Circa June 1931 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I didn't take much of a trip...") Robert E. Howard Essay
2 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa May 1931 ("Well Fear Finn: / I got a letter from Bradford...") Robert E. Howard Essay
9 Letter to Farnsworth Wright, Circa Summer 1931 ("In your last letter you asked me...") Robert E. Howard Essay
10 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa August 1931 ("Fear Finn: / Well, I doubt if this missile...") Robert E. Howard Essay
11 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa September 1931 ("Fear Finn: / Lizzen my children and you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
11 Untitled Poem ("Lizzen my children and you shall be told...") Robert E. Howard Poem
12 Letter to Wilfred Blanch Talman, Circa September 1931 ("Dear Mr. Talman: / Thank you very much for the letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
14 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa November 1931 ("Fear Finn: / I wrote Bradford a coarse rude letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
14 Who Is Grandpa Theobold? Robert E. Howard Poem
15 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa November 1931 ("Fear Finn: / Have you heard anything from the Christopher?...") Robert E. Howard Essay
15 Untitled Poem ("Many fell at the grog-house wall...") Robert E. Howard Poem
16 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa April 1932 ("I heard from that bone-crushing...") Robert E. Howard Essay
16 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa May 1932 ("Fear Finn: / Thank you very much for going to...") Robert E. Howard Essay
18 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa April 1932 ("Fear Finn: / Lo, friend, I approach thee...") Robert E. Howard Essay
19 Authorial Version of Doona Robert E. Howard Poem
19 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Circa September 1932 ("Fear Finn: / You owe me a letter, you louse...") Robert E. Howard Essay
20 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, Received September 22, 1932 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I read, as always, your comments...") Robert E. Howard Essay
31 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, Received November 2, 1932 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I want to begin this letter by an apology...") Robert E. Howard Essay
43 Letter to August Derleth, December 29, 1932 ("Dear Mr. Derleth: / I read your recent letter with the greatest interest...") Robert E. Howard Essay
46 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, Circa May/June 1933 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / Glad we got the physical-mental question...") Robert E. Howard Essay
57 Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Circa October 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Thanks very much for the kind things you said...") Robert E. Howard Essay
58 Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Postmarked December 14, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Only the fact that I have been sick...") Robert E. Howard Essay
58 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, November 3, 1933 ("Dear HPL: / Glad you liked the rattles...") Robert E. Howard Essay
59 Letter to August Derleth, Ca. December 1933 ("Dear August: / I think Scribners was nuts to turn down...") Robert E. Howard Essay
60 Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Circa January 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Thanks again for the drawing of the wizard...") Robert E. Howard Essay
61 Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Circa March 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I am sorry to hear you have been indisposed...") Robert E. Howard Essay
62 Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Postmarked May 21, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / My delay in answering you last letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
63 Letter to August Derleth, July 4, 1935 ("Dear August: / Thanks very much for the article...") Robert E. Howard Essay
65 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, December 5, 1935 ("Dear HPL: / A rather belated reply to your interesting letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
73 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, February 11, 1936 ("Dear HPL: / Glad you enjoyed the dream write-up...") Robert E. Howard Essay
77 Letter to August Derleth, May 9, 1936 ("Dear August: / I am indeed sorry to learn of the deaths...") Robert E. Howard Essay
77 Untitled Poem ("You have built a world of paper and wood...") Robert E. Howard Poem
79 Postcard to Thurston Torbett, Postmarked June 3, 1936 ("Dear Thurston: / My mother is very low...") Robert E. Howard Essay
v Introduction (Robert E. Howard: Selected Letters 1931-1936) Robert M. Price Essay