Available for use in Manuscripts Division reading room.
Copyright resides with the authors. Permission to publish Lovecraft's letters must be properly secured from the Estate of H.P. Lovecraft.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft correspondence (Mss 46), Literary Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Donated to the Archives by William F. Anger in 1973.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in his family home in Providence, R.I. in 1890. He was a precocious child, reading and writing before he was of school age. He had a troubled childhood and never graduated from high school. He began writing fiction in 1917 and engaged in prolific letter-writing throughout his life. He died from cancer in 1937.
The collection consists of 5 holograph postcards (Aug. 31, 1934 to Sept. 2, 1926), 10 holograph letters (Aug. 14, 1934 to Aug. 14, 1935), 1 typescript letter (Jan. 16, 1936), one chain letter (typescript and holograph, undated), one typescript letter signed by August Derleth (April 21, 1968).
The letters and postcards are written to Fred Anger from Lovecraft, mostly from his home in Providence, Rhode Island. They relate to their common interests in writing weird fiction and issues relating to publishing their work.
Transcriptions of the materials have been made and are available in the archives.
See also Lovecraft correspondence to E. Hoffmann Price, Mss 47, located in the Manuscripts Division.
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