The themes of the annual Providence Art Club Costume Party, 1913-26. A curious thing, but his aunts were in that circle and it’s not impossible that Lovecraft might have occasionally provided a few lines of verse on the year’s chosen theme. However, the 1919 date of the science-fictional “A.D. 2000” party doesn’t match with Lovecraft’s very early poem of 1912, which had imagined “Providence in 2000 A.D.”