S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated…

The Lovecraft Letters project from Hippocampus is, incredibly enough, winding to a close.

Great news. Joshi names the final five annotated volumes, due either this year or the next, and also comments…

I would very much like to publish the letters by [Frank Belknap] Long to Lovecraft, of which there is a substantial number.

Super. Now might be the time, then, to start to think about how best to fund or crowdfund a public ‘snippet search’ engine. This would be able to digitally search across all the books of letters for names and phrases, with search results providing a few lines of the page at each hit — similar to how Google Books used to work before it went ‘full-page’. It could be public or perhaps subscribers-only.