A curious reader enquires of Amazing Stories, “Was there a Lovecraft?”

His letter was published in the October 1951 issue.

On transcribing the letter for publication, “H. P.” becomes “F. P.”, so we have to assume that the office-boy who typed up the hand-written letter was also unfamiliar with the “H. P. Lovecraft” name. Despite working at a leading science-fiction magazine. And that his error was not caught by the Editor before printing.