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Fellows Find: H. P. Lovecraft letter sheds light on pivotal moment in his career

James Machin, an English and Humanities PhD candidate, and Dissertation Fellow with the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, has discovered a letter from H. P. Lovecraft that sheds light on a pivotal moment in his career.

While investigating material from the 1890s relating to Arthur Machen, M. P. Shiel, and John Buchan, Machin looked up H. P. Lovecraft in the old card catalogue at the Ransom Center and found a single item listed on one index card: a letter from Lovecraft to J. C. Henneberger. The name was a familiar one: Henneberger was the publisher who established Weird Tales magazine in the 1920s, the pulp title that is remembered today for publishing several of H. P. Lovecraft’s most influential stories.

A full account of his discovery can be found on The Cultural Compass at The Harry Ransom Center.

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