I’ve found a little more from Lovecraft’s friend Everett McNeil, “Good Old Mac”, courtesy of new uploads to Archive.org. Newly found there, his thoughts on tipping waiters, as verse in Good Housekeeping in June 1905…

Which makes me wonder why I’ve never heard Lovecraft on tipping. He was in restaurants and cafes often enough, and poor enough to resent having to tip. Maybe he just never tipped?

And his vivid account of Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, carried in the Lowell Sun in 1898…