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The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume Three: 1933-1936

Robert E. Howard

First published 2008
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 xxii+528
Price $59.00

Edited by Rob Roehm.
Annotations by Rusty Burke.
Limited to 300 numbered copies.
The Addendum, p. 525, is the complete text of the abridged letter on p. 72 of Volume One.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 To August Derleth, Ca. January 1933 ("Dear Mr. Derleth: / I was much interested in your accounts...") Robert E. Howard Essay
11 To August Derleth, Ca. February 1933 ("Dear Mr. Derleth: / After so long a time, I'm getting around to answering...") Robert E. Howard Essay
14 To August Lenniger, February 20, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Lenniger: / Here are copies of 'The Shadow Kingdom'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
14 To Donald Wandrei, Ca. February 21, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Wandrei: / I've been intending to write to you for some time...") Robert E. Howard Essay
15 To August Derleth, Ca. March 1933 ("Dear Mr. Derleth: / I should have told you that I meant...") Robert E. Howard Essay
18 To H. P. Lovecraft, March 6, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I have just read your recent letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
41 To "Magic Carpet", Ca. March 1933 ("Congratulations on the quality and appearance...") Robert E. Howard Essay
41 To August Lenniger, March 8, 1933 ("Dear Sir: / This is to inform you that I have permission...") Robert E. Howard Essay
42 To Clark Ashton Smith, Postmarked March 15, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith; / I hardly know how to thank you for the copy...") Robert E. Howard Essay
43 To Carl Jacobi, March 17, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Jacobi: / I am glad to write to Wright, commenting...") Robert E. Howard Essay
44 To August Derleth, Ca. March (23?) 1933 ("Dear August: / I quite agree with you regarding those super-critics...") Robert E. Howard Essay
47 To Robert H. Barlow, Ca. April 2, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Barlow: / Here are some notes of Price's which...") Robert E. Howard Essay
48 To H. P. Lovecraft, April 23, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I'm enclosing some of the latest views...") Robert E. Howard Essay
50 Untitled Poem ("Under the grim San Saba hills...") Robert E. Howard Poem
52 To August Derleth, Ca. May 1933 ("Dear August: / As a starter, I must apologize for having taken...") Robert E. Howard Essay
56 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. May 1933 ("Fear Finn: / I was in Brownwood yesterday, and went...") Robert E. Howard Essay
57 To the Clayton Magazines, June 13, 1933 ("Gentlemen: / A few weeks ago I wrote you asking a release...") Robert E. Howard Essay
58 To Hugh G. Schonfield, June 15, 1933 ("Dear Sir: / As I promised, in answer to your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
59 To August Derleth, July 3, 1933 ("Dear August: / Please accept my belated thanks for the picture...") Robert E. Howard Essay
63 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. July 1933 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / Glad we got the physical-mental...") Robert E. Howard Essay
92 Postcard to H. P. Lovecraft, Dated July 9, 1933 ("Ruins of Fort McKavett, July 9, 1933; I like this snap...") Robert E. Howard Essay
92 To August Derleth, Ca. July 1933 ("Dear August: / Thanks immensely for the opportunity of reading...") Robert E. Howard Essay
95 To Clark Ashton Smith, Ca. July 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I really must apologize for not having answered...") Robert E. Howard Essay
96 To Clark Ashton Smith, Postmarked July 22, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I can hardly find words to express the pleasure...") Robert E. Howard Essay
97 To August Derleth, Ca. August 1933 ("Dear August: / Yes, I certainly did enjoy 'Five Alone'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
99 A Dungeon Opens Robert E. Howard Poem
100 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. August 1933 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I am sending on to you the enclosed...") Robert E. Howard Essay
101 To August Derleth, September 4, 1933 ("Dear August: / Glad you liked the rhyme I sent you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
104 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. September or October 1933 ("Dear H.P.L.: / I was very sorry to hear of your aunt's accident...") Robert E. Howard Essay
131 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1933 ("Fear Finn: / The Galleon Press has just brought out what...") Robert E. Howard Essay
132 To August Derleth, Ca. October 1933 ("Dear August: / Thanks very much for the opportunity of...") Robert E. Howard Essay
135 To Clark Ashton Smith, Ca. October 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Thanks very much for the kind things you said...") Robert E. Howard Essay
137 To August Derleth, Ca. October 1933 ("Dear August: / By all means use the hawk incident if you wish...") Robert E. Howard Essay
139 To Charles C. Hornig, November 1, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Hornig: / Thanks for the copy of 'The Fantasy Fan'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
140 To H. P. Lovecraft, November 3, 1933 ("Dear HPL: / Glad you liked the rattles. The owner got his head shot off...") Robert E. Howard Essay
142 To August Derleth, Ca. November 1933 ("Dear August: / I enjoyed reading your 'Hawk on the Blue'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
142 To Charles D. Hornig, November 10, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Hornig: / Here is a short story, 'The Frost King's Daughter'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
144 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. November 1933 ("Dear HPL: / I am so submerged in work that I must postpone...") Robert E. Howard Essay
145 To "The Fantasy Fan", Ca. November 1933 ("I find 'The Fantasy Fan' very interesting...") Robert E. Howard Essay
146 To H. P. Lovecraft, December 3, 1933 ("Dear HPL: / Glad you found the cat article of some...") Robert E. Howard Essay
147 To August Derleth, Ca. December 1933 ("Dear August: / I think Scribners was nuts to turn down...") Robert E. Howard Essay
149 To "The Fantasy Fan", Ca. Late 1933 ("I liked the November issue very much...") Robert E. Howard Essay
150 To Clark Ashton Smith, Postmarked December 14, 1933 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Only the fact that I have been sick...") Robert E. Howard Essay
152 Card to Clark Ashton Smith, Postmarked December 20, 1933 ("Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas...") Robert E. Howard Essay
152 To August Derleth, Ca. Late December 1933 ("Dear August: / Hope you had a good Christmas...") Robert E. Howard Essay
157 To August Derleth, Ca. January 1934 ("Dear August: / I note with sympathy your remarks concerning...") Robert E. Howard Essay
159 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. January 1934 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I enjoyed very much your account of your...") Robert E. Howard Essay
193 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. January 1934 ("Dear HPL: / I deeply appreciate your sympathetic expressions...") Robert E. Howard Essay
194 To Clark Ashton Smith, Ca. January 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / Thanks again for the drawing of the wizard...") Robert E. Howard Essay
197 To Clark Ashton Smith, Ca. March 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I am sorry to hear you have been indisposed...") Robert E. Howard Essay
199 To H. P. Lovecraft, March 24, 1934 ("Dear HPL: / Here's a little item which might interest you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
202 To August Derleth, Ca. Late March 1934 ("Dear August: / Pardon this belated letter. My health...") Robert E. Howard Essay
203 To "The Fantasy Fan", Ca. April 1934 ("Smith's poem in the March issue...") Robert E. Howard Essay
204 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. May 1934 ("Dear HPL: / Glad you're having such a good time...") Robert E. Howard Essay
206 To Denis Archer, May 20, 1934 ("Dear Sir: / As you doubtlessly remember, in your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
206 To R. Fowler Gafford, May 20, 1934 ("Dear Fowler: / This answer to your last letter has been...") Robert E. Howard Essay
207 To Clark Ashton Smith, Postmarked May 21, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / My delay in answering your last letter has...") Robert E. Howard Essay
210 To Denis Archer, May 22, 1934 ("Dear Sir: / As you doubtless remember, in your...") Robert E. Howard Essay
211 To August Derleth, May 30, 1934 ("Dear August: / I have a feeling that I've been owing you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
212 To Robert H. Barlow, June 1, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Barlow: / Concerning the illustrations you mentioned...") Robert E. Howard Essay
213 To August Derleth, Ca. June 1934 ("Dear August: / Having completed several weeks of steady work...") Robert E. Howard Essay
215 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. June 1934 ("Dear HPL: / Glad you're finding your stay in Florida...") Robert E. Howard Essay
215 To Robert H. Barlow, June 14, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Barlow: / If I ever decide to dispose of the Rankin...") Robert E. Howard Essay
219 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. July 1934 ("Dear HPL: / I started writing this months ago [inserted]...") Robert E. Howard Essay
219 To Robert H. Barlow, July 5, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Barlow: / Here, at last, is the ms. I promised you some...") Robert E. Howard Essay
245 To Carl Jacobi, Ca. Summer 1934 ("Dear Mr. Jacobi: / Thank you for the kind comments you made about...") Robert E. Howard Essay
248 to Charles C. Hornig, August 10, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Hornig: / Glad you liked the verses...") Robert E. Howard Essay
249 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. September 1934 ("Dear HPL: / Thanks very much for the post-cards...") Robert E. Howard Essay
255 To August Derleth, Ca. Mid-October 1934 ("Dear August: / I haven't yet gotten a copy of the...") Robert E. Howard Essay
255 To Novalyne Price, September 27, 1934 ("Dear Novalyne, / How about going to the show in Brownwood...") Robert E. Howard Essay
258 To August Derleth, December 11, 1934 ("Dear August: / I recently found your letter of October 18...") Robert E. Howard Essay
259 Card to Emil Petaja, December 17, 1934 ("Dear Mr. Petaja: / Thank you very much for the splendid...") Robert E. Howard Essay
261 Cimmeria Robert E. Howard Poem
262 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. December 1934 ("Dear HPL: / I read your account of your trip down the Atlantic...") Robert E. Howard Essay
281 Echo from the Ebon Isles Robert E. Howard Poem
281 To Novalyne Price, Ca. December 1934 ("Dear Novalyne, / Like my meal-ticket, Conan the Cimmerian...") Robert E. Howard Essay
282 To a Woman ("Though fathoms deep you sink me in the mold...") Robert E. Howard Poem
283 One Who Comes at Eventide Robert E. Howard Poem
287 To Alvin Earl Perry, Ca. Early 1935 ("The first character I ever created was Francis Xavier Gordon...") Robert E. Howard Essay
288 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. January 1935 ("Dear HPL: / I have finally found time to answer...") Robert E. Howard Essay
289 To August Derleth, Ca. June 1935 ("Dear August: / I reckon you've wondered at times why the hell...") Robert E. Howard Essay
302 To August Derleth, Ca. February 1935 ("Dear August: / I would have written you long ago, but...") Robert E. Howard Essay
304 To Emil Petaja, March 6, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Petaja: / Glad the ms. proved satisfactory. Haven't...") Robert E. Howard Essay
305 To Charles D. Hornig, May 3, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Hornig: / I'm very sorry to learn that 'The Fantasy Fan' has...") Robert E. Howard Essay
306 To Farnsworth Wright, Dated May 6, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Wright: / I always hate to write a letter like this, but...") Robert E. Howard Essay
308 To Otis Adelbert Kline, May 13, 1935 ("Dear Kline: / I'm writing this to ask for some information in...") Robert E. Howard Essay
309 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. May 1935 ("Dear HPL: / The reason I haven't answered your letter sooner is that...") Robert E. Howard Essay
328 Postcard to Novalyne Price, Postmarked June 19, 1935 ("Dear Novalyne; / Roswell / The weather is good...") Robert E. Howard Essay
328 Postcard to Novalyne Price, Postmarked June 20, 1935 ("Dear Novalyne; / Cordially, / Bob") Robert E. Howard Essay
329 Postcard to August Derleth, Postmarked June 30, 1935 ("This card was purchased in Lincoln, N.M...") Robert E. Howard Essay
330 To Novalyne Price, July 4, 1935 ("Dear Novalyne: / I take my typewriter in hand to write you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
331 To August Derleth, July 4, 1935 ("Dear August: / Thanks very much for the article...") Robert E. Howard Essay
338 To Novalyne Price, July 9, 1935 ("Dear Novalyne: / Thank you for your invitation to call...") Robert E. Howard Essay
339 To H. P. Lovecraft, Ca. July 1935 ("Dear HPL: / Thanks very much for the fine postcard views...") Robert E. Howard Essay
365 To Emil Petaja, July 23, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Petaja: / Please believe my delay in answering your letter of...") Robert E. Howard Essay
366 To Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Smith: / I'm ashamed of my long delay in answering...") Robert E. Howard Essay
368 To Emil Petaja, September 6, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Petaja: / Yes, I did like 'Witches Berceuse' very much...") Robert E. Howard Essay
369 To H. P. Lovecraft, October 3, 1935 ("Dear HPL: / Here are some clippings which might interest...") Robert E. Howard Essay
370 To August Derleth, November 1, 1935 ("Dear August: / I should have written you months ago...") Robert E. Howard Essay
373 To August Derleth, November 28, 1935 ("Dear August: / Thanks for the opportunity of reading 'Hawks...") Robert E. Howard Essay
375 To H. P. Lovecraft, December 5, 1935 ("Dear HPL: / A rather belated reply to your interesting...") Robert E. Howard Essay
394 To Robert H. Barlow, December 17, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Barlow: / Thank you very much for the copy of...") Robert E. Howard Essay
395 To August Lenniger, December 27, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Lenniger: / I have received your letter of the 17th...") Robert E. Howard Essay
399 To William Kofoed, January 8, 1935 ("Dear Mr. Kofoed, / Glad that Bloomfield can use 'Fists of the Desert'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
400 To Otis Adelbert Kline, January 8, 1936 ("Dear Kline: / A belated acknowledgment of the check for...") Robert E. Howard Essay
402 To Otis Adelbert Kline, January 13, 1936 ("Dear Kline: / Just read yours of the 11th. I gather...") Robert E. Howard Essay
404 To Otis Adelbert Kline, January 18, 1936 ("Dear Kline: / Just read your letter of the 15th. I can see...") Robert E. Howard Essay
406 To H. P. Lovecraft, February 11, 1936 ("Dear HPL: / Glad you enjoyed the dream write-up I sent you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
417 To Novalyne Price, February 14, 1936 ("Dear Novalyne: / I heard yesterday you had the mumps...") Robert E. Howard Essay
417 To Robert H. Barlow, Ca. February 14, 1936 ("Dear Mr. Barlow: / This is to express, somewhat belatedly, my thanks...") Robert E. Howard Essay
420 To E. Hoffmann Price, February 15, 1936 ("Dear Ed: / I've eventually found time to answer your cards...") Robert E. Howard Essay
425 To Novalyne Price, February 25, 1936 ("Dear Novalyne: / I'm sorry but I won't be able to keep the date...") Robert E. Howard Essay
426 To Novalyne Price, March 5, 1936 ("Dear Novalyne: / I just now read the letter you wrote me...") Robert E. Howard Essay
427 To P. Schuyler Miller, March 10, 1936 ("Dear Mr. Miller; / I feel indeed honored that you and Dr. Clark...") Robert E. Howard Essay
431 To August Derleth, April 15, 1936 ("Dear August: / Just a hurried line to let you know I haven't...") Robert E. Howard Essay
434 To E. Hoffmann Price, April 21, 1936 ("Dear Ed: / Glad you-all liked 'She-Devil'. Glad too...") Robert E. Howard Essay
435 To Jack Byrne, Draft. April 21, 1936 ("Dear Mr. Byrne: / My agent, O. A. Kline, tells me...") Robert E. Howard Essay
435 Untitled Fragment ("Mr. William Westphal, Esq...") Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
436 To Frank Thurston Torbett, Postmarked April 28, 1936 ("Dear Thurston: / I'm sorry I have not been able...") Robert E. Howard Essay
437 To August Derleth, May 9, 1936 ("Dear August: / I am indeed sorry to learn of the deaths...") Robert E. Howard Essay
438 Untitled Poem ("You have built a world of paper and wood...") Robert E. Howard Poem
439 To H. P. Lovecraft, Partial Draft of May 13 letter, May 11, 1936 ("Dear HPL: / I am indeed sorry to hear...") Robert E. Howard Essay
440 To H. P. Lovecraft, May 13, 1936 ("Dear HPL: / I am indeed sorry to hear that you and your Aunt...") Robert E. Howard Essay
462 To "Weird Tales", Ca. May 1936 ("Enthusiasm impels me to pause from burning...") Robert E. Howard Essay
462 To Novalyne Price, May 27, 1936 ("Dear Novalyne, / You needn't have bothered about...") Robert E. Howard Essay
463 To "The Californian Magazine", Summer 1936 ("Thank you very much for the copy...") Robert E. Howard Essay
463 To E. Hoffmann Price, June 3, 1936 ("Dear Ed: / Sorry to hear Pawang Ali has been banished...") Robert E. Howard Essay
464 To Frank Thurston Torbett, Postmarked June 3, 1936 ("Dear Thurston: / My mother is very low. I fear she has not...") Robert E. Howard Essay
464 To Otto Binder, Ca. After June 5, 1936 ("Dear Binder: / 1/2 a cent is O.K. if you can't get more...") Robert E. Howard Essay
467 King Bahlthur's Court Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
467 King Bahlthur's Court Prologue Robert E. Howard Poem
467 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Before July 1925 ("King Bahthur's Court / Prologue...") Robert E. Howard Essay
469 L'envoi ("Now flapper ridden flivvers whiz...") Robert E. Howard Poem
470 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Between 1926 and 1928 ("Ha ha! You're not going to get off...") Robert E. Howard Essay
470 Untitled Poem ("She came in the grey of the desert dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
471 Surrender ("Open the window and let me go...") Robert E. Howard Poem
471 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Undated ("Salaam: / Again glancing over your last letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
472 Dreaming Robert E. Howard Poem
472 I Praise My Nativity Robert E. Howard Poem
473 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Undated ("The Seeker thrust warily at a door...") Robert E. Howard Essay
473 Untitled Fragment ("The Seeker thrust warily...") Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
476 To Certain Cultured Women Robert E. Howard Poem
477 Out of the Deep Robert E. Howard Poem
477 Untitled Poem ("Over the hills the winds of the sea...") Robert E. Howard Poem
478 Babel Robert E. Howard Poem
478 Laughter in the Gulfs Robert E. Howard Poem
479 Moon Shame Robert E. Howard Poem
480 A Crown for a King Robert E. Howard Poem
481 The Viking of the Sky Robert E. Howard Poem
481 To Tevis Clyde Smith, No Date ("If you don't publish this...") Robert E. Howard Essay
483 Skulls Against the Dawn Robert E. Howard Poem
483 To Tevis Clyde Smith, No Date ("Salaam: / Skulls Against the Dawn...") Robert E. Howard Essay
484 Drummings on an Empty Skull Robert E. Howard Poem
485 Shadows of Dreams Robert E. Howard Poem
485 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Probably Late 1928 ("Salaam: / SHADOWS OF DREAMS....") Robert E. Howard Essay
487 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Probably Late 1928, Early 1929 ("Salaam: / I have forgotten whether you or Truett...") Robert E. Howard Essay
488 A Song of College Robert E. Howard Poem
490 Sighs in the Yellow Leaves Robert E. Howard Poem
490 That Women May Sing of Us Robert E. Howard Poem
491 A Song of Greenwich Robert E. Howard Poem
491 Ballade Robert E. Howard Poem
492 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Before 1930, Probably Late 1928, Late 1929 ("Salaam: / As my dear public remembers...") Robert E. Howard Essay
492 Untitled Story ("As my dear public remembers...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
497 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Before 1930, After July 1925, Probably Circa Early 1929 ("Salaam: / There once was a wicked old elf...") Robert E. Howard Essay
497 Untitled Poem ("There are grim things did, in the East, old kid...") Robert E. Howard Poem
497 Untitled Poem ("There once was a wicked old elf...") Robert E. Howard Poem
499 To Lyle Saxon Robert E. Howard Poem
500 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. After 1930 ("Well, Fear Finn, I read your story...") Robert E. Howard Essay
501 The Cuckoo's Revenge Robert E. Howard Poem
501 The Madness of Cormac Robert E. Howard Poem
502 A Challenge to Bast Robert E. Howard Poem
502 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca After Mid-1931 ("Fear Finn: / I'm damned if I can think of...") Robert E. Howard Essay
502 Untitled Poem ("My empty skull is full of dust...") Robert E. Howard Poem
504 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Handwritten, No Date ("Not even a movie in this god forsaken town...") Robert E. Howard Essay
505 The Werewolf Murder Case Robert E. Howard Short Story
505 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. After Mid-1932 ("Ahatou noyon, Fear Finn: / Thinking of nothing...") Robert E. Howard Essay
509 The Adventurer's Mistress ("The fogs of night fling banners red...") Robert E. Howard Poem
511 "I've done my part in writing it..." Robert E. Howard Essay
511 Untitled Poem ("There were three lads who went their destined ways...") Robert E. Howard Poem
513 "Poem penned by Akbar Ali..." Robert E. Howard Essay
513 Untitled Poem ("Match a toad with a far-winged hawk...") Robert E. Howard Poem
514 Crusade Robert E. Howard Poem
515 Sang the King of Midian Robert E. Howard Poem
516 Renunciation Robert E. Howard Poem
522 To Unknown Recipient, Undated ("Salaam: / Not much to say. My brain seems stagnant...") Robert E. Howard Essay
524 Postcard to Unknown Recipient, Undated, Handwritten ("Schlitz didn't pay for this endorsement...") Robert E. Howard Essay
525 Addendum: To Herbert Klatt, Ca. Fall 1925 ("Bohut salaam, bahader; / Again I write you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
xiii Introduction (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume Three: 1933-1936) Rusty Burke Essay
xxi Notes on the Text (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume Three: 1933-1936) uncredited Essay