Price, E. Hoffmann
E. Hoffmann Price
papers
undated
University of
Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collections, Manuscripts
Division [mss]
3 manuscripts
The collection contains
photocopies of typescripts for two sets of memoirs written by Price:
Trooper of the 15th Horse and
Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers and
Others.
Mss 53
English
Mezzanine
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
These materials are not available for use until at least 2008.
Restrictions on Use
Mr. Price requested that Trooper of the 15th
Horse be restricted from use for an indefinite period.
Friends of Yesteryear will be closed until ten
years after his death, 2008. Please contact the curator for details.
Preferred Citation
E. Hoffmann Price Papers (Mss 53), Literary Manuscripts Collection,
University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Acquisition
Donated by Mr. Price in 1974 and 1977.
Biographical Sketch for E. Hoffmann Price (1898-1988)
E. Hoffmann Price was born in California, educated at the US Military
Academy, and served in World War I in the US Cavalry. He turned to full time
writing in the 1930s and was a prolific writer of pulp fiction including
adventure, western, and weird fiction. He was friends with many writers of the
great pulp magazine fiction era, including H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth.
Price died in 1988.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains photocopies of typescripts for two sets of
memoirs written by Price: Trooper of the 15th
Horse and Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers and
Others. The latter has been published as Books of
the Dead; Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others, edited by
Peter Ruber and published by Arkham House in 2001. The manuscripts include
biographical essays about many of the writers that he knew.
Related Collection
See also the Lovecraft-Price Correspondence (Mss 47).
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog
of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these
headings.
Price, E.
Hoffmann
Lovecraft, H.
P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Derleth,
August William, 1909-1971
Pulp
literature--American