A small update on my “Uncle Eddy” article in the Lovecraft Annual 2022…

Lovecraft visits the Eddys, January 1928…

As for my hibernation — I ain’t ben outa the shanty sence Jany. 2, on which date I was damn near knocked out by de cold after payin’ honest C. M. Eddy a call. I hadda come home in a cab, & couldn’t relish my vittles for a week afterward.” — Lovecraft to Morton, 28th February 1928

Thus my newly discovered April 1929 address for the Eddys, at 317 Plain Street in Lower South Providence, could well be the address visited by Lovecraft in January 1928. It sounds like he tried to walk there from College Hill, and found their place was not well-heated.

317 Plain Street, still there.