Editor to Editor Letters between a Lovecraft fan
Editor to Editor: Letters between a Lovecraft fan and Poe Scholar Kathryn Heffner English Department, The University of Iowa
Letters to the Editor of Weird Tales
Thomas Ollive Mabbott • - Born July 6, 1898 • Died May 15, 1968 • - Attended Columbi University; studied Poe, Whitman & Milton in the course of his career • - Collected old coins, and materials related to Poe • - Taught at Brown, and then Hunter College
August Derleth - Author and Founding Publisher of Arkham Press, a publishing house devoted to weird tales; especially those of Lovecraft
Mabbott Collection, The University of Iowa
Derleth Collection, Wisconsin State Historical Society
Mabbott & Poe • “It is too bad there is difficulty about paper for a book like Lovecraft’s. His work is LITERATURE with a capital L, and publication thereof is to my mind part of the record of American culture. ” • “I have written this deliberately, because sometimes officials in charge of such matters as releases of paper may be interested in a professorial opinions. The fact Lovecraft printed his work so largely in pulp magazines must lead a person not acquainted with its scholarly and artistic merits to underestimate it. ” • "“I may add that all the books from your press seem to me chosen for good style and high imaginative qualities. I wish I could say as much for the larger commercial presses in general”
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