Thanks to Ken Faig Jr. for telling me that there’s a new July 2020 edition of The Fossil, journal of the Historians of Amateur Journalism. This is freely available online.

There are two items of Lovecraftian material in the issue. David Goudsward offers “A Postscript to Myrta Little” in which he explains some of the context for Lovecraft’s apparent love poem “To Phillis”. This article might have perhaps been a touch longer, and also briefly considered Lovecraft’s sonnet to Whitehead’s young friend & guest Allan Grayson.

The main article is the biographical “A Memory of Andrew Francis Lockhart”…

“an early acquaintance of H.P. Lovecraft who is mainly known in literary circles for having written the first article about the famous horror writer.”

Lockhart was an ardently anti-liquor man and was admired by Lovecraft for his tussles with local rum-runners, and well as for his poetic and amateur endeavours. Lockhart was the subject of Lovecraft’s poem “To Mr. Lockhart, on His Poetry”, aka “To A.F. Lockhard”, and is enshrined in the travel account “Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs: II. Andrew Francis Lockhart”. The latter is available as a reading on Librivox.