I’ve started in on Lovecraft’s “Letters to Family” volumes, and am updating past blog posts as required by new evidence.

Friday ‘picture postals’ from Lovecraft: the Cloisters, NYC now has the first visit as being with Sonia…

Lovecraft’s first visit was with a day there with Sonia in 1922, but another was vividly recalled by Frank Belknap Long in his Lovecraft memoir, albeit a memoir written some fifty years later. Long has it that he, Morton and Lovecraft approached the Cloisters in the gloaming dusk…

Also the recent Fly me to the moon… post has a few additional final lines…

As for finding cats on the Moon, as in Dream-quest, the 12 year old Lovecraft already delighted in the idea of other nearby worlds populated by his beloved cats, and so this seems to have been his original idea, part whimsy and part science — the idea of creatures on Venus or Mars was then still a topic on which reputable scientists could speculate in the press.