Her Letters To Lovecraft & Others

H. P. Lovecraft was renowned during his lifetime as a prolific correspondent, ranging from simple postcards from his travels to voluminous letters that sometimes reached 70 or 100 handwritten pages. His correspondents included family, friends, fans, fellow writers at Weird Tales, amateur journalists, and revision clients. The publication and study of Lovecraft’s letters have formed a major interest for pulp scholars for decades.

Lovecraft’s correspondents included a number of women—more than many will commonly think, as misconceptions regarding Lovecraft’s interactions with women continue to this day. This series of posts on Deep Cuts will focus on those exchanges, and seek to answer the questions: Who were the women that Lovecraft corresponded with? What effect did that correspondence have on their lives? How and when were her letters from Lovecraft published?

List of correspondents (date range of correspondence):

Her Letters to August Derleth:

Her Letters To Clark Ashton Smith:

Her Letters To Robert E. Howard:

This is not an exhaustive list, as many correspondents are no doubt lost or remain unpublished.