The booklet Christmas with H.P. Lovecraft now has a page on hplovecraft.com, with detailed description and table-of-contents. This usefully shows that none of the letters were excerpted, which seems a pity. The publication is poems, “The Festival” and the ‘Christmas Greetings’ ditties sent to friends (and friends’ cats) at Christmas. One might have hoped that the compiler could have slipped in just two or three bits from the letters. Which Brown consider to be in the public domain. I mean, how could one leave out something like this…

[Yule (Christmas)] here was commendably cheerful — including a turkey dinner at the boarding-house across the garden, with a congenial cat meandering among the tables and finally jumping up on the windowseat for a nap. We had a tree by the living-room fireplace — its verdant boughs thickly festooned with a tinsel imitation of Florida’s best Spanish moss, and its outlines emphasised by a not ungraceful lighting system. Around its base were ranged the modest Saturnalian gifts — which included (on my side) a hassock [a cushioned wooden foot-stool] tall enough to let me reach the top shelves of my bookcases […]. Of outside gifts the most distinctive was perhaps that which came quite unexpectedly from one of the kid fantasy fan group […] when I had removed numberless layers of corrugated paper and excelsior, what should I find before me but the yellowed and crumbling fragments of a long-interred human skull!