Brown University Digital Repository: the “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” manuscript in digital facsimile…
Brown’s “Dexter Ward” manuscript online
30 Friday Aug 2013
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
30 Friday Aug 2013
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
Brown University Digital Repository: the “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” manuscript in digital facsimile…
Hurrah! However, twice through and I still have not got all the pages. Anyone else having glitches in the upload? Page count? I counted 300 pages even, but what did everyone else count?
University repository servers are notoriously crap, underfunded in the first place and then lacking in techie lurv. It’s probably just a bit overburdened by a small bump in traffic.
On page 4 (under the Boston Post letterhead) – who is “Sandy”?
He sounds like a snappy young newspaper boy, judging by the hip 1920s slang. Perhaps one connected with the advertising section or with selling advertorials to businesses? The letterhead has Grozier on it, which is contemporary since he was Boston Post editor from May 1924. “Sandy” is obviously well known enough to Lovecraft (another one of the many ‘grandsons’ no doubt) that he can only sign his first name, and in pencil. Sadly the book Who’s Who in Journalism 1928 is not online. I guess a search of that and the Boston Post archives c.1928 might turn up a Sandy or perhaps a Sanford or Sandford or Sanforth.
Could be. I read through the several “Sandy” letters – and I am not 100% sure it says “Sandy” but what else could it be? I think “Sandy” is in college, and lots of football talk. Never saw the name “Sandy” before anywhere. One mention of “going to see Cole” was an eye opener. = Ira A Cole? Big mystery, for sure.
Ah, so there are several Sandy letters in there, are there? I haven’t looked through the “Ward” ms. yet. Could you screenshot them all and post them on your blog?
It hardly seems likely that a slangy youth in Boston would seek out the Christian evangelist Ira A. Cole, who had apparently by that time become … “an absolutely impossible fanatic in [a Christian] eccentric sect” See: http://www.hplovecraft.com/study/articles/iac-hpl.aspx More likely be “Edward H. Cole”, who was… “frequently visited in the Boston area” by Lovecraft in the “1920s and 30s” (Lovecraft Encyclopedia).