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

Robert E. Howard

First published 2021
Series Robert E. Howard LettersThe Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard (Second Edition) #1
Publisher The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Mark Wheatley
Pages xxi+415
Price $39.99
ISBN 9781955446006

2nd Edition. Please do not merge with the first edition - the contents differ.

First edition was edited by Rob Roehm, this expanded second edition was edited by John Bullard. Date from advertisement in The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter, Fall 2021. Cover art credited on publisher's website. The second edition includes items from later volumes of the first edition and some items not previously published. The dates in the titles are sometimes changed as well. One letter presented as separate in the first edition was also found to be part of another letter.

Page Title Author(s) Type
7 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1923 ("To Clyde bahadur-sahib, greeting: / I got your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
8 The Dook of Stork Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
10 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur; / The picnic has come...") Robert E. Howard Essay
11 Untitled Poem ("Bill Boozy was a pirate bold...") Robert E. Howard Poem
13 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923 ("Clyde sahib; / You say I'll be in...") Robert E. Howard Essay
19 To Tevis Clyde Smith, September 9, 1923 ("Clyde sahib; / First off I must apologize for not...") Robert E. Howard Essay
21 To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 5, 1923 ("Salaam, Clyde; / Maybe you think I've moved...") Robert E. Howard Essay
22 To Tevis Clyde Smith, November 4, 1923 ("Bohut salaam, Clyde bahadur; / It's been quite a while...") Robert E. Howard Essay
25 To "Adventure", Ca. February 1924 ("I am writing for information...") Robert E. Howard Essay
29 To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 21, 1924 ("Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I should have written...") Robert E. Howard Essay
30 To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 19, 1924 ("Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I suppose you think I'm rather slow...") Robert E. Howard Essay
31 To "Adventure", Ca. July 1924 ("1. At what period did the feudal...") Robert E. Howard Essay
37 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 7, 1925 ("Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I was in Brownwood the...") Robert E. Howard Essay
45 To Tevis Clyde Smith, February 25, 1925 ("Salaam,sahib; / Chapter XIX / Writers of the Bunkorian Age...") Robert E. Howard Essay
46 The Bombing of Gon Fanfew Robert E. Howard Poem
47 To Tevis Clyde Smith, March 17, 1925 ("The top o' the marnin' O'Clydo; / Faith and bejabbers!...") Robert E. Howard Essay
48 The Sappious Few Menchew Robert E. Howard Short Story
51 An Interview with James J. Bunkus / The Bore of the Cowed Robert E. Howard Short Story
51 To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 24, 1925 ("Salaam; / Hot zowie, old topper...") Robert E. Howard Essay
52 Untitled Poem ("When you were a set-up and I was a ham...") Robert E. Howard Poem
53 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. June 1925 ("Know all men...") Robert E. Howard Essay
54 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Before July 1925 ("King Bahthur's Court / Prologue...") Robert E. Howard Essay
56 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1925 ("Salaam, Sahib; / I believe you owe me a letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
58 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Post July 20, 1925, Dated July, 1925 ("Salaam, Clyde; / Old boy, I got your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
61 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925 ("Salaam; / I'm glad you passed the exams...") Robert E. Howard Essay
63 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 26, 1925 ("Salaam; / I've been thinking. What is reality...") Robert E. Howard Essay
64 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925 ("Salaam; / I've been thinking. Did you ever stop...") Robert E. Howard Essay
66 To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 9, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / Say, bo, you're developing into a real poet...") Robert E. Howard Essay
67 Untitled Poem ("All the crowd meek and proud...") Robert E. Howard Poem
68 To Herbert Klatt, Ca. Fall 1925 ("Bohut salaam, bahader; / Again I write you, being...") Robert E. Howard Essay
70 To "Weird Tales", Ca. January 1926 ("...These are sheer masterpieces...") Robert E. Howard Essay
73 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 ("Salaam, bahadur, bohut salaam; / By Baal I am joyed...") Robert E. Howard Essay
74 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 ("Salaam; / This is a habit of mine...") Robert E. Howard Essay
77 Letter to Farnsworth Wright, January 23, 1926 ("Dear Sir; / I have no carbon copy...") Robert E. Howard Essay
78 To Robert W. Gordon, February 15, 1926 ("Dear Mr. Gordon; / I was delighted to receive your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
81 My Old Beaver Cap Robert E. Howard Poem
82 Letter to Weird Tales, Ca. March 1926 ("Robert E. Howard, author of 'Wolfshead'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
86 The Belle of Edinburgh Town Robert E. Howard Poem
88 Pretty Polly Robert E. Howard Poem
90 Brady Robert E. Howard Poem
103 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1926 ("Salaam, sahib; / In the first place, pardon...") Robert E. Howard Essay
104 Arcadian Days Robert E. Howard Poem
107 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 21, 1926 ("Bohut salaam, sahib; / I think you owe me one, two...) Robert E. Howard Essay
108 Twilight on Stonehenge Robert E. Howard Poem
109 Ocean-Thoughts Robert E. Howard Poem
116 The Highwayman Robert E. Howard Poem
117 To Robert W. Gordon, March 17, 1927 ("Dear Mr. Gordon; / This time I have an excuse...") Robert E. Howard Essay
118 The Scouts Lament Robert E. Howard Poem
119 Mississippi Gals Robert E. Howard Poem
120 Tommy's Gone Hilo Robert E. Howard Poem
123 Untitled Poem Fragment ("Along the road that leads to Hell...") Robert E. Howard Poem
125 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. About Mid- to Late-September 1927 ("Salaam: / Seeking cognizance of things looked...") • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (2007) • Essay by Robert E. Howard (Variant of Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1927 ("Salaam: / Seeking cognizance of things looked...") 1989) Robert E. Howard Essay
125 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1927 ("Salaam: / Seeking cognizance of things looked...") Robert E. Howard Essay
126 The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu Robert E. Howard Short Story
135 Memories ("Shall we remember, friend of the morning...") Robert E. Howard Poem
136 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Late August / Early September 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN...") Robert E. Howard Essay
136 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1927 ("ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN...") Robert E. Howard Essay
138 Revenge Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
139 The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts Robert E. Howard Poem
142 The Robes of the Righteous Robert E. Howard Poem
143 Untitled Poem ("After the trumps are sounded...") Robert E. Howard Poem
146 Untitled Poem ("A jackal laughed from a thicket still...") Robert E. Howard Poem
149 Untitled Poem ("I think I was born to pass at dawn...") 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 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
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
174 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1928 ("The only reason for writing this letter is...") Robert E. Howard Essay
176 Untitled Poem ("Keresa, Keresita, an echo shivers...") Robert E. Howard Poem
182 Untitled Poem ("I am Man from the primal, I...") Robert E. Howard Poem
184 Untitled Poem ("Moses was our leader and Moses knew his Hebrews...") Robert E. Howard Poem
186 Secrets Robert E. Howard Poem
189 To Harold Preece, Ca. Early 1928 ("Salaam: / You'll have to pardon me for not having...") Robert E. Howard Essay
191 To "Weird Tales", Ca. April 1928 ("Mr. Lovecraft's latest story...") Robert E. Howard Essay
192 To Robert W. Gordon, Postmarked May 14, 1928 ("Dear Mr. Gordon: / Many thanks for the letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
194 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. May 1928 ("Salaam: / So Klatt has gone West...") Robert E. Howard Essay
195 Letter to Merln Wand, May 26, 1928 ("CONTACTS...") Robert E. Howard Essay
200 The Rump of Swift Robert E. Howard Short Story
201 A Young Wife's Tale Robert E. Howard Poem
202 Lesbia Robert E. Howard Poem
203 A Roman Lady Robert E. Howard Poem
205 Untitled Poem ("A cringing woman's lot is hard...") Robert E. Howard Poem
206 Nights to Both of Us Known Robert E. Howard Poem
207 To Harold Preece, Ca. June 1928 ("Salaam: / No, I was not trying to catch flies...") Robert E. Howard Essay
209 To "The Brownwood Bulletin", July 18, 1928 ("Arthur 'Kid' Dula is due to be...") Robert E. Howard Essay
210 To "The Fort Worth Record", Ca. July 1928 ("Tunney can't win. After the fight...") Robert E. Howard Essay
212 To Harold Preece, Ca. August 1928 ("Salaam: / Glad you enjoyed our reunion...") Robert E. Howard Essay
215 To Harold Preece, Postmarked September 5, 1928 ("Salaam: / Yes, I like the idea of Eldorado...") Robert E. Howard Essay
220 To Harold Preece, Ca. September 1928 ("Salaam: / Tunney sure gave Heeney a tough beating...") Robert E. Howard Essay
223 To Harold Preece, Postmarked September 23, 1928 ("Salaam: / The tang of winter is in the air...") Robert E. Howard Essay
226 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1928 ("Salaam: / I could have gone with you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
231 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. October 1928 ("Salaam: / The reason I'm sending 'The Junto' to you...") Robert E. Howard Essay
232 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / Listen you goddamn so forth and so on...") Robert E. Howard Essay
233 A Song of the Anchor Chain Robert E. Howard Poem
234 The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore Robert E. Howard Poem
237 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I'll swear you're the only galoot...") Robert E. Howard Essay
238 Song from an Ebony Heart Robert E. Howard Poem
239 Untitled Poem ("Swords glimmered up the pass...") Robert E. Howard Poem
243 Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them Robert E. Howard Poem
250 Untitled Poem ("Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs...") Robert E. Howard Poem
252 To a Nameless Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
263 To Harold Preece, Ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / You're right; women are great actors...") Robert E. Howard Essay
265 Untitled Story ("Tumba Hooey was an ordinary...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
272 Untitled Poem ("Adam's loins were mountains...") Robert E. Howard Poem
273 The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore Robert E. Howard Poem
274 Untitled Poem ("My brother he was an auctioneer...") Robert E. Howard Poem
275 A Ballad of Insanity Robert E. Howard Poem
276 That Women May Sing of Us Robert E. Howard Poem
278 A Far Country Robert E. Howard Poem
281 My Children Robert E. Howard Poem
284 Untitled Poem ("There's an isle far away on the breast of the sea...") Robert E. Howard Poem
285 Untitled Poem ("Silence falls on Mecca's walls...") Robert E. Howard Poem
285 Untitled Poem ("Stay not from me, that veil of dreams...") Robert E. Howard Poem
285 Untitled Poem ("The chariots were chanting in the gloom...") Robert E. Howard Poem
288 Untitled Poem ("The women come and...") Robert E. Howard Poem
292 To All the Lords of Commerce Robert E. Howard Poem
294 Nisapur Robert E. Howard Poem
298 To Lyle Saxon Robert E. Howard Poem
299 To "Weird Tales", Unsent, Ca. January 1929 ("...whatever to do with beetles...") Robert E. Howard Essay
301 Untitled Poem ("At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to win or lose...") Robert E. Howard Poem
301 Untitled Poem ("Moonlight and shadows barred the land...") Robert E. Howard Poem
306 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Last night the Sunday School...") Robert E. Howard Essay
307 The Case of the College Toilet Robert E. Howard Short Story
311 Untitled Poem ("And there were lethal women, flaming ice and fire...") Robert E. Howard Poem
312 Untitled Poem ("A haunting cadence fills the night with fierce longing...") Robert E. Howard Poem
313 The Mysteries Robert E. Howard Poem
316 Invocation Robert E. Howard Poem
317 The Path of the Strange Wanderers Robert E. Howard Poem
320 Untitled Poem ("The scent of cooking meat...") Robert E. Howard Poem
321 Untitled Poem ("Through the mists of silence there came...") Robert E. Howard Poem
327 Untitled Poem ("There was an old Dick whose name was Stiff...") Robert E. Howard Poem
329 Songs of Bastards Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
340 To Harold Preece, C. March 1929 ("Salaam: / I've been very neglectful...") Robert E. Howard Essay
342 To "Argosy All-Story Weekly", Ca. Spring 1929 ("I was born in Texas about...") Robert E. Howard Essay
344 To the Contented Robert E. Howard Poem
346 To "Thrills of the Jungle Magazine", Ca. June to Late 1929 ("Editor Thrills of the Jungle Magazine...") Robert E. Howard Essay
349 Irony Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
354 To Harold Preece, Ca. September 1929 ("Salaam: / I've been reading 'Destiny Bay'...") Robert E. Howard Essay
356 To Harold Preece, Postmarked September 18, 1929 ("I don't remember saying anything...") Robert E. Howard Essay
375 Index of the Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1: 1923-1929 Bobby Derie & John Bullard Essay
377 Editors' Note to the Second Edition Bobby Derie & John Bullard Essay
379 Index (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1: 1923-1929) uncredited Essay
100|100.1 Deeps Robert E. Howard Poem
100|100.2 Thor Robert E. Howard Poem
100|100.3 Mystic Robert E. Howard Poem
100|100.4 Orientia Robert E. Howard Poem
101|101.1 The Mountains of California Robert E. Howard Poem
101|101.2 Monarchs Robert E. Howard Poem
102|102.1 Lust Robert E. Howard Poem
102|102.2 The Alamo Robert E. Howard Poem
102|102.3 San Jacinto ("Flowers bloom on San Jacinto...") Robert E. Howard Poem
102|102.4 Romance ("Shouting I come, flouting I come...") Robert E. Howard Poem
110|110.1 To Edna Mann, October 30, 1926 ("Dear Friend; / As usual I have to start my letter with an apology...") Robert E. Howard Essay
110|110.2 The Campus at Midnight Robert E. Howard Poem
115|115.1 To Robert W. Gordon — Handwritten. January 2, 1926 ("My dear Mr. Gordon; / Upon seeing a request...") Robert E. Howard Essay
115|115.2 Botany Bay Robert E. Howard Poem
121|121.1 Blow the Man Down Robert E. Howard Poem
121|121.2 The Jubilee Robert E. Howard Poem
122|122.1 To "Weird Tales", Ca. May 1927 ("Your last three issues...") Robert E. Howard Essay
122|122.1 To "Weird Tales", Ca. May 1927 ("Your last three issues...") Robert E. Howard Essay
122|122.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. September 1927 ("Salaam: / Having just got your letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
124|124.1 Untitled Poem Fragment ("A jackal laughed from a thicket...") Robert E. Howard Poem
124|124.2 Untitled Poem ("The baron of Fenland sat at east...") Robert E. Howard Poem
126|126.2 Untitled Poem ("Tell me not in coocoo numbers...") Robert E. Howard Poem
131|131.1 Lilith Robert E. Howard Poem
131|131.2 The Gods Remember ("Lost wonders of the ages lie...") Robert E. Howard Poem
132|132.1 The Dreams of Men Robert E. Howard Poem
132|132.2 The Builders ("We reared Bab-ilu's towers...") Robert E. Howard Poem
132|132.3 The Road to Babel Robert E. Howard Poem
137|137.1 Untitled Poem ("Take some honey from a cat...") Robert E. Howard Poem
137|137.2 Where Strange Gods Squall ("Yes, I might have learned...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
140|140.1 Legend Robert E. Howard Short Story
140|140.2 Untitled Poem ("Against the blood red moon a tower stands...") Robert E. Howard Poem
141|141.1 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Fall 1927 ("Salaam: / Then the little boy said to...") Robert E. Howard Essay
141|141.2 Where Strange Gods Squall II ("There it was...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
142|142.1 Untitled Poem ("What's become of Waring...") Robert E. Howard Poem
142|142.3 Untitled Poem ("Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell...") Robert E. Howard Poem
144|144.1 To Harold Preece, December 22, 1927 (Front of Envelope) Robert E. Howard Essay
145|145.1 Letter to Unknown Recipient, Undated, Unsent ("Seems that you owe me...:) Robert E. Howard Essay
145|145.2 Untitled Poem ("Along the road that leads to Hell...") Robert E. Howard Poem
145|145.3 Untitled Poem ("Long ago, long ago you sat beneath...") Robert E. Howard Poem
145|145.4 Untitled Poem ("The men that walk with Satan...") Robert E. Howard Poem
147|147.1 Untitled Poem ("Favored child of a lucky star...") Robert E. Howard Poem
147|147.2 Untitled Poem ("I have heard that croon in the baccaroon...:) Robert E. Howard Poem
153|153.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. January 1928 ("I wasn't lying to you Saturday...") Robert E. Howard Essay
153|153.2 Symbols Robert E. Howard Poem
154|154.1 Romany Road Robert E. Howard Poem
154|154.2 Love Robert E. Howard Poem
155|155.1 The Chant Demoniac Robert E. Howard Poem
155|155.2 A Man Robert E. Howard Poem
155|155.3 The Grey Lover Robert E. Howard Poem
156|156.1 Life ("About me rise the primal mists...") Robert E. Howard Poem
156|156.2 King Hootus Robert E. Howard Short Story
15|15.1 Untitled Poem ("A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs...:) Robert E. Howard Poem
15|15.2 Untitled Poem ("A hundred years the great war raged...") Robert E. Howard Poem
16|16.1 Postcard to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 21, 1923 Robert E. Howard Essay
16|16.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 24, 1923 ("Bohut salaam, Clyde sahib; / I was all ready to come over to...") Robert E. Howard Essay
173|173.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Between 1926 and 1928 ("Ha ha! You're not going to get off...") Robert E. Howard Essay
173|173.2 Untitled Poem ("She came in the grey of the desert dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
177|177.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Not having much of anything specially...") Robert E. Howard Essay
177|177.2 How to Select a Successful Evangelist Robert E. Howard Poem
178|178.1 The Choir Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
178|178.2 A Song of Cheer Robert E. Howard Poem
179|179.1 Repentance Robert E. Howard Poem
179|179.2 Untitled Story ("Thoid round de Kid...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
183|183.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1928 ("Salaam: / Glad you're writing these days...") Robert E. Howard Essay
183|183.2 Untitled Poem ("The spiders of weariness come on me...") Robert E. Howard Poem
183|183.3 Untitle Poem ("Follow me, oh grim Elijah...") Robert E. Howard Poem
188|188.1 Untitled Poem ("Grim, grim, grim the elephants were...") Robert E. Howard Poem
188|188.2 The Chinese Gong Robert E. Howard Poem
199|199.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Handwritten, No Date ("Not even a movie in this god forsaken town...") Robert E. Howard Essay
199|199.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. June 1928 ("Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights lift...") Robert E. Howard Essay
204|204.1 Untitled Poem ("They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright...") Robert E. Howard Poem
204|204.2 Song of a Fugitive Bard Robert E. Howard Poem
211|211.1 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. July 1928 ("Salaam: / A Warning to Orthodoxy...") Robert E. Howard Essay
211|211.2 A Warning to Orthodoxy Robert E. Howard Poem
218|218.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Probably Late 1928 ("Salaam: / SHADOWS OF DREAMS....") Robert E. Howard Essay
218|218.2 Shadows of Dreams Robert E. Howard Poem
228|228.1 Untitled Poem ("Long were the years, life-long...") Robert E. Howard Poem
228|228.2 To Harold Preece, Received October 20, 1928 ("Salaam: / Your stationery is alright...") Robert E. Howard Essay
241|241.1 Rebellion Robert E. Howard Poem
241|241.2 A Great Man Speaks Robert E. Howard Poem
244|244.1 Untitled Poem ("He clutched his penis tight...") Robert E. Howard Poem
244|244.2 Untitled Poem ("Noah was my applesauce...") Robert E. Howard Poem
245|245.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / I got such a laugh out of your parody...") Robert E. Howard Essay
245|245.2 Nancy Hawk - a Legend of Virginity Robert E. Howard Poem
253|253.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Heh heh! At last I've sold...") Robert E. Howard Essay
253|253.2 Untitled Poem ("Scarlet and gold are the stars...") Robert E. Howard Poem
253|253.3 Untitled Poem ("Old Faro Bill was a man of might...") Robert E. Howard Poem
254|254.1 Untitled Poem ("Rebel souls from the falling dark...") Robert E. Howard Poem
254|254.2 Untitled Poem ("My heart is a silver drum tonight...") Robert E. Howard Poem
255|255.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November-December 1928 ("Salaam: / Heh heh! / Sappho, the Grecian hills...") Robert E. Howard Essay
255|255.1 Untitled Poem ("A Sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne...") Robert E. Howard Poem
255|255.2 Untitled Poem ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold...") Robert E. Howard Poem
256|256.1 Untitled Poem ("Romona! Romona!...") Robert E. Howard Poem
256|256.2 Untitled Poem ("Now come the days of high...") Robert E. Howard Poem
258|258.1 Untitled Poem ("I carved a woman...") Robert E. Howard Poem
263|263.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Late 1928 ("Salaam: / I'll swear, if I'd laughed much more...") Robert E. Howard Essay
263|263.2 The People of the Winged Skulls Robert E. Howard Short Story
271|271.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. November 1928 ("Salaam: / THIS IS A LETTER I STARTED...") Robert E. Howard Essay
271|271.2 Untitled Poem ("Let me live as I was born to live...") Robert E. Howard Poem
277|277.1 Sighs in the Yellow Leaves Robert E. Howard Poem
277|277.2 Untitled Poem ("I hate the man who tells me that I lied...") Robert E. Howard Poem
279|279.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Probably Late 1928, Early 1929 ("Salaam: / I have forgotten whether you or Truett...") Robert E. Howard Essay
279|279.2 A Song of College Robert E. Howard Poem
280|280.1 A Song of Greenwich Robert E. Howard Poem
280|280.2 Ballade Robert E. Howard Poem
281|281.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. December 1928 ("Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein's...") Robert E. Howard Essay
281|281.2 Untitled Poem ("Out in front of Goldstein's, over by the Loop...") Robert E. Howard Poem
283|283.1 The Deed Beyond the Deed Robert E. Howard Poem
283|283.2 An American Robert E. Howard Poem
290|290.1 Untitled Poem ("Flappers flicker and flap and flirt ...") Robert E. Howard Poem
290|290.2 Untitled Poem ("I hold all women are a gang of tramps... ") Robert E. Howard Poem
290|290.3 Untitled Poem ("Love is singing soft and low...") Robert E. Howard Poem
291|291.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Undated, Unsent ("Show this to Truett if you have...") Robert E. Howard Essay
291|291.2 To an Earth Bound Soul Robert E. Howard Poem
293|293.1 To Unknown Recipient, Undated, Ca. Probably 1926-1928 Robert E. Howard Essay
293|293.2 Niflheim Robert E. Howard Poem
297|297.1 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
297|297.2 Untitled Poem ("There once was a wicked old elf...") Robert E. Howard Poem
297|297.3 Untitled Poem ("There are grim things did, in the East, old kid...") Robert E. Howard Poem
300|300.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. February 1929 ("Salaam: / Ancient English Balladel...") Robert E. Howard Essay
300|300.2 Ancient English Balladel Robert E. Howard Poem
314|314.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. March 1929 ("Salaam: / Black Dawn...") Robert E. Howard Essay
314|314.2 Shadows ("A black moon nailed against a sullen dawn...") Robert E. Howard Poem
314|314.3 Clouds Robert E. Howard Poem
315|315.1 Shrines Robert E. Howard Poem
315|315.2 The Iron Harp ("They sell brown men for gold in Zanzibar...") Robert E. Howard Poem
318|318.1 At the Bazaar Robert E. Howard Poem
318|318.2 Untitled Story ("'Hatrack!' a voice came to me...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
319|319.1 Untitled Poem ("By old Abie Goldstein's pawnshop...") Robert E. Howard Poem
319|319.2 Bastards All! Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
329|329.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Early to Mid 1929 ("Salaam: / Life is a yellow mist among...") Robert E. Howard Essay
329|329.3 Ivory in the Night Robert E. Howard Poem
32|32.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith — Handwritten. September 7, 1924 ("Salaam, Clyde; / You ought to be here...") Robert E. Howard Essay
32|32.2 Untitled Poem ("Palm-trees are waving in the gulf-breeze...") Robert E. Howard Poem
339|329.2 To a Roman Woman Robert E. Howard Poem
33|33.2 To "Western Story", Ca. Fall 1924 ("— And I am not one of those...") Robert E. Howard Essay
343|343.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. April 1929 ("Salaam: / The iron harp that Adam...") Robert E. Howard Essay
343|343.2 Untitled Poem ("The iron harp that Adam christened...") Robert E. Howard Poem
345|345.1 High Blue Halls Robert E. Howard Poem
345|345.2 An American Epic Robert E. Howard Poem
347|347.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. June 1929 ("Salaam: / I received an announcement from Chicago...") Robert E. Howard Essay
347|347.2 Black Seas Robert E. Howard Poem
348|348.1 A Drammer: "Damn Yuh, Suh!" Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
348|348.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. July 1929 ("Salaam: / The main reason I'm writing this letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
358|358.1 To "Weird Tales", Ca. October 1929 ("I have just been reading the September...") Robert E. Howard Essay
358|358.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Late December 1929 ("Well: / Here I am doing business at the old stand...") Robert E. Howard Essay
359|359.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Before 1930, Probably Late 1928, Late 1929 ("Salaam: / As my dear public remembers...") Robert E. Howard Essay
359|359.2 Untitled Story ("As my dear public remembers...") Robert E. Howard Short Story
39|39.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / I'm sending you a lot of junk...") Robert E. Howard Essay
39|39.2 Untitled Poem ("Hills of the North! Lavender hills...") Robert E. Howard Poem
39|39.3 Untitled Poem ("Dark are your eyes...") Robert E. Howard Poem
39|39.4 Untitled Poem ("How your right thudded...") 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
40|40.1 Untitled Poem ("I am the Spirit of War!...") Robert E. Howard Poem
40|40.2 Untitled Poem ("I lay in Yen's opium joint...") Robert E. Howard Poem
40|40.3 To Robert W. Gordon, February 4, 1925 ("Dear Sir; / I am sending you a few songs...") Robert E. Howard Essay
4|4.2 Neolithic Love Song Robert E. Howard Poem
50|50.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 6, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / What ho! I have never read...") Robert E. Howard Essay
50|50.2 The Post of the Sappy Skipper Robert E. Howard Short Story
54|54.2 King Bahlthur's Court Prologue Robert E. Howard Poem
54|54.3 King Bahlthur's Court Robert E. Howard Short Fiction
57|57.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 16, 1925 ("Salaam, sahib; / What ho, milord!...") Robert E. Howard Essay
57|57.2 Untitled Poem ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd sneered...") Robert E. Howard Poem
62|62.1 Untitled Poem ("I tell you this, my friend...") Robert E. Howard Poem
62|62.2 Letter to Farnsworth Wright, August 21, 1925 ("Dear Sir: I am preparing a mss"...)... Robert E. Howard Essay
65|65.1 Untitled Poem ("Mingle my dust with the burning brand...") Robert E. Howard Poem
65|65.2 Untitled Poem ("Roses laughed in her pretty hair...") Robert E. Howard Poem
6|6.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22, 1923 ("Clyde sahib, greeting: / I found your first letter...") Robert E. Howard Essay
6|6.2 Untitled Poem ("The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo...") Robert E. Howard Poem
6|6.3 Untitled Poem ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped...") Robert E. Howard Poem
79|79.1 On the Lakes of the Ponchartrain Robert E. Howard Poem
79|79.2 Sandford Burns Robert E. Howard Poem
83|83.1 Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Ca. Spring, 1926 ("If you don't publish this...") Robert E. Howard Essay
83|83.2 The Viking of the Sky Robert E. Howard Poem
85|85.1 To "The Ring", Ca. Early 1926 ("Here is my opinion on the greatest...") Robert E. Howard Essay
85|85.2 To Robert W. Gordon, April 9, 1926 ("Dear Sir; / I must really ask your pardon...") Robert E. Howard Essay
89|89.1 A Fragment ("Oh, Caroline, won't you be mine...") Robert E. Howard Poem
89|89.2 Nelly Till (?) Robert E. Howard Poem
91|91.1 Tavern Song Robert E. Howard Poem
91|91.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926 ("Salaam; / Being in an (un)poetical mood...") Robert E. Howard Essay
92|92.1 The Dancer Robert E. Howard Poem
92|92.2 Destiny? ("What is there real, my girl... ") Robert E. Howard Poem
92|92.3 Laughter Robert E. Howard Poem
94|94.1 Untitled Poem ("We are the duckers of crosses...") Robert E. Howard Poem
94|94.2 Untitled Poem ("The shades of night were falling faster...") Robert E. Howard Poem
95|95.1 To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 7, 1926 ("Salaam; / I'm sending you a flock of poetry...") Robert E. Howard Essay
95|95.2 To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 ("Salaam; / I'm trying to write again...") Robert E. Howard Essay
96|96.1 Untitled Poem ("Give ye of my best though the dole be meager...") Robert E. Howard Poem
96|96.2 Untitled Poem ("Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies...") Robert E. Howard Poem
96|96.3 Eternity Robert E. Howard Poem
97|97.1 Serpent Robert E. Howard Poem
97|97.2 Shadows ("I am that which was, was never...") Robert E. Howard Poem
98|98.1 Destiny ("I am a white trail...") Robert E. Howard Poem
98|98.2 Adventure Robert E. Howard Poem
98|98.2 Adventure ("I am the spur that rides men's souls...") Robert E. Howard Poem
98|98.4 Libertine Robert E. Howard Poem
98|98.5 Nun Robert E. Howard Poem
98|98.6 Prude Robert E. Howard Poem
98|98.7 Adventurer Robert E. Howard Poem
99|99.1 Poet Robert E. Howard Poem
99|99.2 Dancer Robert E. Howard Poem
99|99.3 Dreamer Robert E. Howard Poem
99|99.4 Sailor Robert E. Howard Poem
99|99.5 Cowboy Robert E. Howard Poem
99|99.6 Toper Robert E. Howard Poem
99|99.7 Girl Robert E. Howard Poem
ix Introduction (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929) Rusty Burke Essay
xix List of First Edition Letter Numbers with Their New Second Edition Numbers (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929) uncredited Essay
xv First Edition Notes on Text (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929) Rob Roehm Essay
xviii Second Edition Notes from the Editor (The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume One: 1923-1929) John Bullard Essay

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