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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929

Robert E. Howard

First published 2007
Series Robert E. Howard Letters › The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard (First Edition)
Publisher The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan
Pages xxi+377
Price $49.00


Edited by Rob Roehm.
Annotations by Rusty Burke.
Limited to 300 numbered copies.
The letter on p. 72 is abridged; the complete letter is in Volume 3, p. 525.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
6 To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, greeting: / I found your first letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
11 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur; / The picnic has come...") Robert E. Howard Essay
12 Untitled Poem ("Bill Boozy was a pirate bold...") Robert E. Howard Poem
14 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923 ("Clyde sahib; / You say I'll be in...") Robert E. Howard Essay
17 Untitled Poem ("A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs...:) Robert E. Howard Poem
17 Untitled Poem ("A hundred years the great war raged...") Robert E. Howard Poem
18 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 24, 1923 ("Bohut salaam, Clyde sahib; / I was all ready to come over to...") Robert E. Howard Essay
21 To Tevis Clyde Smith, September 9, 1923 ("Clyde sahib; / First off I must apologize for not...") Robert E. Howard Essay
23 To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 5, 1923 ("Salaam, Clyde; / Maybe you think I've moved...") Robert E. Howard Essay
25 To Tevis Clyde Smith, November 4, 1923 ("Bohut salaam, Clyde bahadur; / It's been quite a while...") Robert E. Howard Essay
31 To "Adventure", Ca. February 1924 ("I am writing for information...") Robert E. Howard Essay
31 To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 21, 1924 ("Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I should have written...") Robert E. Howard Essay
33 To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 19, 1924 ("Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I suppose you think I'm rather slow...") Robert E. Howard Essay
34 To "Adventure", Ca. July 1924 ("1. At what period did the feudal...") Robert E. Howard Essay
37 To "Western Story", Ca. Fall 1924 ("— And I am not one of those...") Robert E. Howard Essay
41 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 7, 1925 ("Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I was in Brownwood the...") Robert E. Howard Essay
43 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I'm sending you a lot of junk...") Robert E. Howard Essay
43 Untitled Poem ("Hills of the North! Lavender hills...") Robert E. Howard Poem
44 Untitled Poem ("Dark are your eyes...") Robert E. Howard Poem
44 Untitled Poem ("How your right thudded...") Robert E. Howard Poem
44 Untitled Poem ("I am the Spirit of War!...") Robert E. Howard Poem
44 Untitled Poem ("I lay in Yen's opium joint...") Robert E. Howard Poem
45 To Robert W. Gordon, February 4, 1925 ("Dear Sir; / I am sending you a few songs...") Robert E. Howard Essay
52 To Tevis Clyde Smith, March 17, 1925 ("The top o' the marnin' O'Clydo; / Faith and bejabbers!...") Robert E. Howard Essay
53 The Sappious Few Menchew Robert E. Howard Short Story
55 The Post of the Sappy Skipper Robert E. Howard Short Story
55 To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 6, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / What ho! I have never read...") Robert E. Howard Essay
57 An Interview with James J. Bunkus / The Bore of the Cowed Robert E. Howard Short Story
57 To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 24, 1925 ("Salaam; / Hot zowie, old topper...") Robert E. Howard Essay
58 Untitled Poem ("When you were a set-up and I was a ham...") Robert E. Howard Poem
59 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1925 ("Salaam, Sahib; / I believe you owe me a letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
60 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 16, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / What ho, milord!...") Robert E. Howard Essay
60 Untitled Poem ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd sneered...") Robert E. Howard Poem
61 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July, 1925 ("Salaam, Clyde; / Old boy, I got your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
64 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925 ("Salaam; / I'm glad you passed the exams...") Robert E. Howard Essay
64 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. July 1925 ("Salaam, Clyde sahib, / I haven't got any answer...") Robert E. Howard Essay
68 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925 ("Salaam; / I've been thinking. Did you ever stop...") Robert E. Howard Essay
69 Untitled Poem ("Mingle my dust with the burning brand...") Robert E. Howard Poem
69 Untitled Poem ("Roses laughed in her pretty hair...") Robert E. Howard Poem
70 To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 9, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / Say, bo, you're developing into a real poet...") Robert E. Howard Essay
71 Untitled Poem ("All the crowd meek and proud...") Robert E. Howard Poem
72 To Herbert Klatt, Ca. Fall 1925 ("Bohut salaam, bahader; / Again I write you, being...") Robert E. Howard Essay
75 To "Weird Tales", Ca. January 1926 ("...These are sheer masterpieces...") Robert E. Howard Essay
75 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 ("Salaam, bahadur, bohut salaam; / By Baal I am joyed...") Robert E. Howard Essay
77 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 ("Salaam; / This is a habit of mine...") Robert E. Howard Essay
80 Letter to Farnsworth Wright, January 23, 1926 ("Dear Sir; / I have no carbon copy...") Robert E. Howard Essay
81 To Robert W. Gordon, February 15, 1926 ("Dear Mr. Gordon; / I was delighted to receive your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
86 To "The Ring", Ca. Early 1926 ("Here is my opinion on the greatest...") Robert E. Howard Essay
87 To Robert W. Gordon, April 9, 1926 ("Dear Sir; / I must really ask your pardon...") Robert E. Howard Essay
88 The Belle of Edinburgh Town Robert E. Howard Poem
89 Pretty Polly Robert E. Howard Poem
93 The Dancer Robert E. Howard Poem
93 To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926 ("Salaam; / Being in an (un)poetical mood...") Robert E. Howard Essay
94 Destiny? ("What is there real, my girl... ") Robert E. Howard Poem
94 Laughter Robert E. Howard Poem
96 Untitled Poem ("The shades of night were falling faster...") Robert E. Howard Poem
96 Untitled Poem ("We are the duckers of crosses...") Robert E. Howard Poem
97 To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam; / I'm trying to write again...") Robert E. Howard Essay
97 To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 7, 1926 ("Salaam; / I'm sending you a flock of poetry...") Robert E. Howard Essay
98 Eternity Robert E. Howard Poem
98 Untitled Poem ("Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies...") Robert E. Howard Poem
98 Untitled Poem ("Give ye of my best though the dole be meager...") Robert E. Howard Poem
99 Serpent Robert E. Howard Poem
100 Adventure ("I am the spur that rides men's souls...") Robert E. Howard Poem
100 Destiny ("I am a white trail...") Robert E. Howard Poem
100 Shadows ("I am that which was, was never...") Robert E. Howard Poem
101 Adventurer Robert E. Howard Poem
101 Dancer Robert E. Howard Poem
101 Dreamer Robert E. Howard Poem
101 Libertine Robert E. Howard Poem
101 Nun Robert E. Howard Poem
101 Poet Robert E. Howard Poem
101 Prude Robert E. Howard Poem
102 Cowboy Robert E. Howard Poem
102 Deeps Robert E. Howard Poem
102 Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
102 Sailor Robert E. Howard Poem
102 Toper Robert E. Howard Poem
103 Mystic Robert E. Howard Poem
103 Orientia Robert E. Howard Poem
103 The Mountains of California Robert E. Howard Poem
103 Thor Robert E. Howard Poem
104 Lust Robert E. Howard Poem
104 Monarchs Robert E. Howard Poem
105 Romance ("Shouting I come, flouting I come...") Robert E. Howard Poem
105 San Jacinto ("Flowers bloom on San Jacinto...") Robert E. Howard Poem
105 The Alamo Robert E. Howard Poem
106 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1926 ("Salaam, sahib; / In the first place, pardon...") Robert E. Howard Essay
107 Arcadian Days Robert E. Howard Poem
110 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 21, 1926 ("Bohut salaam, sahib; / I think you owe me one, two...) Robert E. Howard Essay
112 Twilight on Stonehenge Robert E. Howard Poem
113 Ocean-Thoughts Robert E. Howard Poem
114 The Campus at Midnight Robert E. Howard Poem
114 To Edna Mann, October 30, 1926 ("Dear Friend; / As usual I have to start my letter with an apology...") Robert E. Howard Essay
119 To Robert W. Gordon — Handwritten. January 2, 1926 ("My dear Mr. Gordon; / Upon seeing a request...") Robert E. Howard Essay
121 To Robert W. Gordon, March 17, 1927 ("Dear Mr. Gordon; / This time I have an excuse...") Robert E. Howard Essay
127 Untitled Poem ("Take some honey from a cat...") Robert E. Howard Poem
127 Where Strange Gods Squall ("Yes, I might have learned...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
128 Revenge Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
130 Legend Robert E. Howard Short Story
130 The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts Robert E. Howard Poem
131 Untitled Poem ("Against the blood red moon a tower stands...") Robert E. Howard Poem
131 Untitled Poem ("Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell...") Robert E. Howard Poem
132 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Fall 1927 ("Salaam: / Then the little boy said to...") Robert E. Howard Essay
132 Where Strange Gods Squall II ("There it was...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
133 Untitled Poem ("What's become of Waring...") Robert E. Howard Poem
134 The Robes of the Righteous Robert E. Howard Poem
135 Untitled Poem ("After the trumps are sounded...") Robert E. Howard Poem
137 Untitled Poem Fragment ("A jackal laughed from a thicket...") Robert E. Howard Poem
137 Untitled Poem Fragment ("Along the road that leads to Hell...") Robert E. Howard Poem
138 Untitled Poem ("The baron of Fenland sat at east...") Robert E. Howard Poem
140 Untitled Poem ("Tell me not in coocoo numbers...") Robert E. Howard Poem
147 The Road to Babel Robert E. Howard Poem
150 Memories ("Shall we remember, friend of the morning...") Robert E. Howard Poem
155 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. January 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen, you crumb, I think you already...") Robert E. Howard Essay
155 Wolfsdung Robert E. Howard Short Story
157 Untitled Poem ("Keep women, thrones and kingly lands...") Robert E. Howard Poem
158 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. January 1928 ("I wasn't lying to you Saturday...") Robert E. Howard Essay
158 Untitled Poem ("I do not sing of a paradise...") Robert E. Howard Poem
158 Untitled Poem ("Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool...") Robert E. Howard Poem
158 Untitled Poem ("The east is red and I am dead...") Robert E. Howard Poem
158 Untitled Poem ("The world goes back to the primitive, yea...") Robert E. Howard Poem
159 Symbols Robert E. Howard Poem
160 Love Robert E. Howard Poem
160 Romany Road Robert E. Howard Poem
161 A Man Robert E. Howard Poem
161 The Chant Demoniac Robert E. Howard Poem
162 King Hootus Robert E. Howard Short Story
162 Life ("About me rise the primal mists...") Robert E. Howard Poem
162 The Grey Lover Robert E. Howard Poem
165 To Harold Preece, Ca. January-February 1928 ("Salaam; / Say, listen, tramp, you owe me...") Robert E. Howard Essay
168 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Week of February 20, 1928 ("The fellow who wrote 'The Kasidah' strung...") Robert E. Howard Essay
172 Untitled Play ("A typical small town drugstore...") Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
180 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1928 ("The only reason for writing this letter is...") Robert E. Howard Essay
182 Untitled Poem ("Keresa, Keresita, an echo shivers...") Robert E. Howard Poem
183 How to Select a Successful Evangelist Robert E. Howard Poem
183 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Not having much of anything specially...") Robert E. Howard Essay
184 A Song of Cheer Robert E. Howard Poem
184 The Choir Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
185 Repentance Robert E. Howard Poem
186 Untitled Story ("Thoid round de Kid...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
189 Untitled Poem ("I am Man from the primal, I...") Robert E. Howard Poem
190 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Glad you're writing these days...") Robert E. Howard Essay
190 Untitle Poem ("Follow me, oh grim Elijah...") Robert E. Howard Poem
190 Untitled Poem ("The spiders of weariness come on me...") Robert E. Howard Poem
191 Untitled Poem ("Moses was our leader and Moses knew his Hebrews...") Robert E. Howard Poem
194 Secrets Robert E. Howard Poem
195 Untitled Poem ("Grim, grim, grim the elephants were...") Robert E. Howard Poem
196 The Chinese Gong Robert E. Howard Poem
197 To Harold Preece, Ca. Early 1928 ("Salaam: / You'll have to pardon me for not having...") Robert E. Howard Essay
199 To "Weird Tales", Ca. April 1928 ("Mr. Lovecraft's latest story...") Robert E. Howard Essay
200 To Robert W. Gordon, Postmarked May 14, 1928 ("Dear Mr. Gordon: / Many thanks for the letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
202 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. May 1928 ("Salaam: / So Klatt has gone West...") Robert E. Howard Essay
204 The Rump of Swift Robert E. Howard Short Story
204 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. June 1928 ("Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights lift...") Robert E. Howard Essay
206 A Young Wife's Tale Robert E. Howard Poem
207 Lesbia Robert E. Howard Poem
208 A Roman Lady Robert E. Howard Poem
209 Untitled Poem ("They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright...") Robert E. Howard Poem
210 Song of a Fugitive Bard Robert E. Howard Poem
211 Untitled Poem ("A cringing woman's lot is hard...") Robert E. Howard Poem
212 Nights to Both of Us Known Robert E. Howard Poem
213 To Harold Preece, Ca. June 1928 ("Salaam: / No, I was not trying to catch flies...") Robert E. Howard Essay
216 To "The Brownwood Bulletin", July 18, 1928 ("Arthur 'Kid' Dula is due to be...") Robert E. Howard Essay
216 To "The Fort Worth Record", Ca. July 1928 ("Tunney can't win. After the fight...") Robert E. Howard Essay
218 A Warning to Orthodoxy Robert E. Howard Poem
218 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. July 1928 ("Salaam: / A Warning to Orthodoxy...") Robert E. Howard Essay
219 To Harold Preece, Ca. August 1928 ("Salaam: / Glad you enjoyed our reunion...") Robert E. Howard Essay
223 To Harold Preece, Postmarked September 5, 1928 ("Salaam: / Yes, I like the idea of Eldorado...") Robert E. Howard Essay
226 To Harold Preece, Ca. September 1928 ("Salaam: / Tunney sure gave Heeney a tough beating...") Robert E. Howard Essay
229 To Harold Preece, Postmarked September 23, 1928 ("Salaam: / The tang of winter is in the air...") Robert E. Howard Essay
233 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1928 ("Salaam: / I could have gone with you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
235 Untitled Poem ("Long were the years, life-long...") Robert E. Howard Poem
236 To Harold Preece, Received October 20, 1928 ("Salaam: / Your stationery is alright...") Robert E. Howard Essay
239 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1928 ("Salaam: / The reason I'm sending 'The Junto' to you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
240 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen you goddamn so forth and so on...") Robert E. Howard Essay
241 A Song of the Anchor Chain Robert E. Howard Poem
243 The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore Robert E. Howard Poem
243 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I'll swear you're the only galoot...") Robert E. Howard Essay
244 Song from an Ebony Heart Robert E. Howard Poem
245 Untitled Poem ("Swords glimmered up the pass...") Robert E. Howard Poem
248 A Great Man Speaks Robert E. Howard Poem
248 Rebellion Robert E. Howard Poem
250 Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them Robert E. Howard Poem
251 Untitled Poem ("He clutched his penis tight...") Robert E. Howard Poem
252 Untitled Poem ("Noah was my applesauce...") Robert E. Howard Poem
253 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / THIS IS A LETTER I STARTED...") Robert E. Howard Essay
253 Untitled Poem ("Let me live as I was born to live...") Robert E. Howard Poem
254 Untitled Poem ("Adam's loins were mountains...") Robert E. Howard Poem
255 The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore Robert E. Howard Poem
257 A Ballad of Insanity Robert E. Howard Poem
258 A Far Country Robert E. Howard Poem
258 Untitled Poem ("I hate the man who tells me that I lied...") Robert E. Howard Poem
259 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I got such a laugh out of your parody...") Robert E. Howard Essay
260 Nancy Hawk - a Legend of Virginity Robert E. Howard Poem
265 Untitled Poem ("Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs...") Robert E. Howard Poem
265 Untitled Story ("Tumba Hooey was an ordinary...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
267 To a Nameless Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
268 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Heh heh! At last I've sold...") Robert E. Howard Essay
268 Untitled Poem ("Scarlet and gold are the stars...") Robert E. Howard Poem
269 Untitled Poem ("Old Faro Bill was a man of might...") Robert E. Howard Poem
269 Untitled Poem ("Rebel souls from the falling dark...") Robert E. Howard Poem
270 Untitled Poem ("A Sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne...") Robert E. Howard Poem
270 Untitled Poem ("My heart is a silver drum tonight...") Robert E. Howard Poem
271 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh! / Sappho, the Grecian hills...") Robert E. Howard Essay
271 Untitled Poem ("Now come the days of high...") Robert E. Howard Poem
271 Untitled Poem ("Romona! Romona!...") Robert E. Howard Poem
271 Untitled Poem ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold...") Robert E. Howard Poem
274 Untitled Poem ("My brother he was an auctioneer...") Robert E. Howard Poem
276 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein's...") Robert E. Howard Essay
276 Untitled Poem ("I carved a woman...") Robert E. Howard Poem
276 Untitled Poem ("Out in front of Goldstein's, over by the Loop...") Robert E. Howard Poem
278 An American Robert E. Howard Poem
278 The Deed Beyond the Deed Robert E. Howard Poem
279 Untitled Poem ("There's an isle far away on the breast of the sea...") Robert E. Howard Poem
280 Untitled Poem ("Stay not from me, that veil of dreams...") Robert E. Howard Poem
281 My Children Robert E. Howard Poem
284 Untitled Poem ("The women come and...") Robert E. Howard Poem
285 Untitled Poem ("Silence falls on Mecca's walls...") Robert E. Howard Poem
285 Untitled Poem ("The chariots were chanting in the gloom...") Robert E. Howard Poem
286 Untitled Poem ("Flappers flicker and flap and flirt ...") Robert E. Howard Poem
286 Untitled Poem ("I hold all women are a gang of tramps... ") Robert E. Howard Poem
286 Untitled Poem ("Love is singing soft and low...") Robert E. Howard Poem
287 To Harold Preece, Ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / You're right; women are great actors...") Robert E. Howard Essay
292 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Late 1928 ("Salaam: / I'll swear, if I'd laughed much more...") Robert E. Howard Essay
293 The People of the Winged Skulls Robert E. Howard Short Story
301 Untitled Poem ("Moonlight and shadows barred the land...") Robert E. Howard Poem
305 To "Weird Tales", Unmailed, Ca. January 1929 ("...whatever to do with beetles...") Robert E. Howard Essay
306 Ancient English Balladel Robert E. Howard Poem
306 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Ancient English Balladel...") Robert E. Howard Essay
307 Untitled Poem ("At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to win or lose...") Robert E. Howard Poem
312 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Last night the Sunday School...") Robert E. Howard Essay
313 The Case of the College Toilet Robert E. Howard Short Story
319 Untitled Poem ("And there were lethal women, flaming ice and fire...") Robert E. Howard Poem
320 Untitled Poem ("A haunting cadence fills the night with fierce longing...") Robert E. Howard Poem
320 Untitled Poem ("The scent of cooking meat...") Robert E. Howard Poem
321 The Mysteries Robert E. Howard Poem
321 Untitled Poem ("Through the mists of silence there came...") Robert E. Howard Poem
322 Shadows ("A black moon nailed against a sullen dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
322 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn...") Robert E. Howard Essay
323 Clouds Robert E. Howard Poem
323 Shrines Robert E. Howard Poem
324 Invocation Robert E. Howard Poem
324 The Iron Harp ("They sell brown men for gold in Zanzibar...") Robert E. Howard Poem
325 The Path of the Strange Wanderers Robert E. Howard Poem
326 At the Bazaar Robert E. Howard Poem
326 Untitled Story ("'Hatrack!' a voice came to me...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
327 Untitled Poem ("There was an old Dick whose name was Stiff...") Robert E. Howard Poem
328 Untitled Poem ("By old Abie Goldstein's pawnshop...") Robert E. Howard Poem
329 Bastards All! Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
340 Songs of Bastards Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
352 To a Roman Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
352 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Early to Mid 1929 ("Salaam: / Life is a yellow mist among...") Robert E. Howard Essay
353 Ivory in the Night Robert E. Howard Poem
354 To Harold Preece, C. March 1929 ("Salaam: / I've been very neglectful...") Robert E. Howard Essay
357 To "Argosy All-Story Weekly", Ca. Spring 1929 ("I was born in Texas about...") Robert E. Howard Essay
357 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. April 1929 ("Salaam: / The iron harp that Adam...") Robert E. Howard Essay
357 Untitled Poem ("The iron harp that Adam christened...") Robert E. Howard Poem
359 High Blue Halls Robert E. Howard Poem
359 To the Contented Robert E. Howard Poem
360 An American Epic Robert E. Howard Poem
361 To "Thrills of the Jungle Magazine", Ca. June to Late 1929 ("Editor Thrills of the Jungle Magazine...") Robert E. Howard Essay
361 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. June 1929 ("Salaam: / I received an announcement from Chicago...") Robert E. Howard Essay
362 A Drammer: "Damn Yuh, Suh!" Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
362 Black Seas Robert E. Howard Poem
364 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. July 1929 ("Salaam: / The main reason I'm writing this letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
365 Irony Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
370 To Harold Preece, Ca. September 1929 ("Salaam: / I've been reading 'Destiny Bay'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
373 To Harold Preece, Postmarked September 18, 1929 ("I don't remember saying anything...") Robert E. Howard Essay
375 To "Weird Tales", Ca. October 1929 ("I have just been reading the September...") Robert E. Howard Essay
376 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Late December 1929 ("Well: / Here I am doing business at the old stand...") Robert E. Howard Essay
126|126 To "Weird Tales", Ca. April 1927 ("Your last three issues...") Robert E. Howard Essay
126|126.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Late August / Early September 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN...") Robert E. Howard Essay
135|135.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. September 1927 ("Salaam: / Having just got your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
139|139.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1927 ("Salaam: / Seeking cognizance of things looked...") Robert E. Howard Essay
139|139.2 The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu Robert E. Howard Short Story
145|145.1 Lilith Robert E. Howard Poem
145|154.2 The Gods Remember ("Lost wonders of the ages lie...") Robert E. Howard Poem
146|146.1 The Dreams of Men Robert E. Howard Poem
146|146.2 The Builders ("We reared Bab-ilu's towers...") Robert E. Howard Poem
35|35.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith — Handwritten. September 7, 1924 ("Salaam, Clyde; / You ought to be here...") Robert E. Howard Essay
35|35.2 Untitled Poem ("Palm-trees are waving in the gulf-breeze...") Robert E. Howard Poem
3|3.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith — Handwritten. June 8, 1923 ("Hello Clyde, / May the blessings...") Robert E. Howard Essay
3|3.2 Untitled Poem ("When Napoleon down in Africa...") Robert E. Howard Poem
4|4.2 Neolithic Love Song Robert E. Howard Poem
50|50.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, February 25, 1925 ("Salaam,sahib; / Chapter XIX / Writers of the Bunkorian Age...") Robert E. Howard Essay
50|50.2 The Bombing of Gon Fanfew Robert E. Howard Poem
66|66.1 Untitled Poem ("I tell you this, my friend...") Robert E. Howard Poem
66|66.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 26, 1925 ("Salaam; / I've been thinking. What is reality...") Robert E. Howard Essay
7|7.1 Untitled Poem ("The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo...") Robert E. Howard Poem
7|7.2 Untitled Poem ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped...") Robert E. Howard Poem
8|8.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1923 ("To Clyde bahadur-sahib, greeting: / I got your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
8|8.2 The Dook of Stork Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
91|91.1 A Fragment ("Oh, Caroline, won't you be mine...") Robert E. Howard Poem
91|91.2 Nelly Till (?) Robert E. Howard Poem
92|92.2 Tavern Song Robert E. Howard Poem
95|92.1 Brady Robert E. Howard Poem
xi Introduction (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929) Rusty Burke Essay
xix Notes on the Text (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929) uncredited Essay