* Jack Adrian (online 2012), “An M.R. James Letter”, Ghosts & Scholars (first series) No.8, 1986. (Annotated version of a private 1926 letter which contains James’s comments on… “a disquisition of nearly 40 pages of double columns on Supernatural Horror in Literature by one H.P. Lovecraft, whose style is of the most offensive. He uses the word cosmic about 24 times.”)
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01 Monday Sep 2014
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I wonder whether HPL ever learned of this verdict? I seem to recall that Donald Wandrei implies in a letter to him that Arthur Machen, with whom Wandrei had been in touch, liked it — something like “Machen mentioned your article and its grip on him”.
Dunsany got the article as well, but I have never heard what he thought of it. Anyway, when he read Lovecraft’s fiction for the first time in the late 40s he rather liked it, and asked Derleth for a copy of MARGINALIA so he could read Lovecraft’s article “LOrd Dunsany and His Work”.