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Street & Smith proto-pulps to 1930, now online

08 Friday Dec 2023

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Northern Illinois University has reportedly completed its scanning project for much of the output of the Street & Smith publishing company to 1930. At the Nickels and Dimes website one can now find, freely online, 113,342 well-scanned pages from 4,790 ‘dime’ novels and proto-pulp ‘story papers’. The work began as “a local initiative in 2013”, but grew over the years and then landed “a grant of $338,630 from the National Endowment for the Humanities” to ensure completion.

The site doesn’t yet have the new press-release about the project’s completion, but a sort-by-date shows it runs to 1930. Note that their U.S. public domain status only extends to 1928, and that only from 1st January 2024.

And there are enough pictures here, and since I have a snuffling cold, I feel can class this post as one of my weekly ‘Picture Postals’ posts. Especially since some of the serials are known to have been enjoyed by Lovecraft in his youth. Such as the ‘Nick Carter’ adventure-mysteries. For instance, one can imagine him being intrigued enough to at least pick this combo of kitties and Egypt off the news-stands for a thumb-through even at age 19…

Though if he read them that late appears to be unknown. Possibly not. Lovecraft recalled them in a letter for the musical and philosophical Galpin, suggesting they were intended for “small boys”…

“Nick Carter and Old Sleuth, dear to the small boys of other generations, and studied almost invariably without knowledge or consent of the reader’s parents!”

Though that would be small boys of the early 1900s, apparently able to read page after page of small text. Something that would likely be deemed beyond the capabilities of the screen-boggled boys of 2023.

Lovecraft read a lot of them…

“If I had kept all the nickel novels — Pluck & Luck, Brave & Bold, Frank Reade, Jesse James, Nick Carter, Old King Brady, &c. — which I surreptitiously read 35 years ago… I could probably get a young fortune for ’em today”.

As to dates, Joshi has him as reading…

“Street & Smith’s Popular Magazine around 1905–10; read the entirety of the Railroad Man’s Magazine (1906–13); he began reading the Black Cat around 1904.”

We also know he gave up on following Conan Doyle’s new Sherlock Holmes tales in 1908.

For ‘prime dime’ Street & Smith juvenile reading we’re probably more likely talking about Lovecraft at between the ages 9 – 16, the years 1899 – 1905. So those would probably be the years to look at first, on the now-completed Nickels and Dimes website. That said, his interest in occasional issues as late as 1913 can’t be ruled out. And, newly interested in the industry trends and markets for fiction, he would have at least glanced at Street & Smith’s covers on the news-stands during the mid 1920s.

He was likely drawn to Popular Magazine by the sequel to the famous She in February 1905.

Note that at Nickels and Dimes you need to enlarge the view before you go to fullscreen. You can’t enlarge once in fullscreen, it seems. Also note that key S&S magazines such as Popular Magazine appear to be missing. Evidently it’s the complete collection, but not complete in terms of the entire S&S output. If you can offer them a complete run of missing titles, or fill-in issues, I guess they’d be quite interested.

A folksy map of Providence

01 Friday Dec 2023

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This week on ‘Picture Postals’, a folksy hand-draw map postcard which names, and also sometimes sketches, many of the city locations mentioned by Lovecraft in his letters. Possibly 1920s, judging by the design of the back and the existence of the Shepley Library as a possible destination.

As you can see, it can be turned three ways according to whatever direction the holder is walking. As Lovecraft once said…

everything cannot be carry’d in memory; so that it is well always to have a map in one’s pocket.

The old Court House on Benefit Street

24 Friday Nov 2023

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I’ve never seen this card pop up on eBay before, which makes me think it might be scarce. The old Court House on Benefit Street, later a school. Lovecraft knew it and (if I have the correct Court House) described it as “great” in bulk…

“In colonial times College St. was known successively as Presbyterian Lane (from the meeting-house at Benefit St., where the great Court House now stands), Rosemary Lane, & Hanover St.”

But is it of more significance in his life and work? There’s a Court House in Dexter Ward (perhaps not this one?) in which records are searched for. I can find nothing more on it in the time available for a quick search, but others may know differently.

It seems that this is not why Lovecraft knew the giant College Street courthouse as the new Court House…

[The view from his windows] “In the southwest the lofty Georgian belfry of the new Court House loomed up darkly save for the lighted clock-face, the floodlights not having been turned on.”

Since this “new” description was of the 1928 structure…

“the very fine neo-Georgian court house, built in 1928–33, at the corner of College and North Main Streets”

College Hill, looking toward the Capitol

17 Friday Nov 2023

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This week in ‘Picture Postals from Lovecraft’, a glimpse of Lovecraft’s beloved College Hill looking toward the Capitol building (aka State House). Said to be Benefit Street, possibly early 1960s.

The picture appeared in a magazine and the seller of the pages cropped the preview picture. Thus the top part is missing. But we can still see the down-slope view that Lovecraft would have known. I’ve here colourised and contrast-adjusted it.

The article reveals that… “in the 1950s urban renewal threatened the whole area [of College Hill] with demolition and redevelopment”.

The door to the cellar…

10 Friday Nov 2023

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I’ve found an old postcard of Weybosset Street, showing what must be the entrance door for Lovecraft’s favourite Providence second-hand bookseller (see my long article on ‘Uncle Eddy’ in the Lovecraft Annual). Sadly it’s only a small 600px CardCow picture, with no larger available unless one buys the physical card.

The distinctive dome-roof building on the corner gives the orientation. It can still be seen on Google StreetView.

However, even a basic AI-powered enlargement (Topaz GigaPixel AI) makes it clear the entrance door that would have led down to the cellar bookshop, said to have been the largest ‘open shelves’ store in Providence. The Dana’s store was perhaps larger in stock by the time of Lovecraft’s death, but their two-floor storerooms were not open to public browsers.

Here I’ve subtly highlighted the entrance door…

The Ladd in the 1920s

03 Friday Nov 2023

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This week on ‘Picture Postals from Lovecraft’, a pleasing postcard of the Ladd Observatory in Providence. Probably in the late 1920s, as it would have looked on Lovecraft’s return to his city from New York City, since it’s known that the foliage had grown up the walls by the 1930s.

Source:

After my fix, clean and a few dabs of additional colouring and shading:

On the news stand

27 Friday Oct 2023

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This week on ‘picture postals’, news-stands of the 1930s and 40s, via the best images to be found at the Library of Congress. Here cropped, contrast-adjusted and reduced to a manageable-but-still-big size from the huge .TIF files.

It’s interesting to see how they were purveyed. Upside down, in one picture.

And quite mixed in another picture from 1939, where Sky Devils can end up right next to Complete Love, and Weird Tales is jammed between Home Friend and Consumers Digest…

Perhaps the war made them more organised, so that they could be more easily given the once-over for seditious material during wartime?

Letters to Wilfred B. Talman – the fifth set of notes

13 Friday Oct 2023

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Letters to Wilfred B. Talman – the fifth set of notes.

Here’s my fifth set of notes on the book of Lovecraft’s Letters to Wilfred B. Talman and Helen V. and Genevieve Sully (2019). These notes cover letters from the end of July 1932 through March 1934. Lovecraft is still writing to Talman, at this point in the book.

p. 211. Lovecraft gives more details about the passenger shipping from Providence to Newport…

the Mount Hope and the all-year-round mail ship Sagamore. The latter has come down to 50 cents for the round trip to Newport and back [and gives the passenger 6.5 hours in Newport, due to a later return-time]. Accordingly I have been three times and intended to repeat…

Thus the 1898 Sagamore was a “mail ship”, which tells us a bit more about her. She began the Providence – Newport Block Island run toward the end of her life in 1928, and is not to be confused with the Lake George ship Sagamore.

The problem with the later return is that the two-hour trip was colder than on the larger Mount Hope. But the fare was the main attraction. The Sagamore fare sometimes went as low as 15-cents for a day’s round-trip, but the passenger had to put up with what Lovecraft called “freight and cattle”. Thus she was sometimes a cattle boat as well as a mail boat. Also, the Sagamore was smaller and thus had more vibration, as Lovecraft said… “the vibration will play the devil with my penmanship” and between this and the cold he could not easily write on board.

p. 211. Confirming what I had thought, Lovecraft states clearly… “Block Island, which I have never seen”. Thus a prime and well-photographed local tourist-trap had never been visited. So far as I’m aware, it never was. Despite the Sagamore being able to take him there.

p. 212. “Went over to see C.M. Eddy Jr. last night — first time in ages”. This tells us that the broken friendship was at least partially renewed by the end of July 1932. And properly so, by a home visit rather than Eddy’s attendance at a Providence gang meeting. Presumably Muriel was also there, and perhaps their children would have also been around the place early in a long summer evening. Lovecraft gives no address for the Eddys, but this was likely at the address I found recently…

the Ghost Stories magazine for April 1929 printed a letter from Muriel Eddy from her address of “317 Plain Street”, Providence. [… this was] in Lower South Providence and about a half-mile from [Lovecraft’s local used bookseller] ‘Uncle’ Eddy and his family at 100 Gallup Street.

The place still stands today as a neat wooden house of the type typical of Providence, and in a neighbourhood that now appears to be gentrifying.

p. 215. Lovecraft’s overview essay “Fairyland” essay was researched and written at speed for the personal benefit of a correspondent (Talman) during a very busy time. It is referred to here on p. 215 (September 1932), and printed as an appendix ‘Some Backgrounds of Fairyland’ on p. 489.

p. 215. Belknap Long was then selling off his library, seemingly all of it. He had become a vocal socialist by this point in the Great Depression, though I don’t recall he was volunteering at Hell’s Kitchen soup-kitchens as a result. Perhaps the fire-sale was to ‘raise money for the cause’, though?

p. 217. Lovecraft reveals he has acquired a new feline friend… “at the house on the corner near the letter-box” used for his posting of letters. He is still living at Barnes Street at this date, so this may help identify the “letter-box” Lovecraft used for mail at that time. It would have been located quite near to a corner. Though I don’t think that posting-boxes show up on old street maps of Providence.

p. 220. In October 1932, the greatest letter-writer of the 20th century estimates he has “50 to 75 correspondents” on the go.

p. 224-25. Talman had written a Dreamlands tale titled “The Heads of Gyrwy”. It’s not printed in the book, so is presumably lost. It depicted “the decayed huts of the Gyrwians still remaining in the time of Dwerga”, Dwerga being a place over which “an atmosphere of menace” hangs. According to Lovecraft he (Lovecraft) pictured this place as on “the upper reaches of the River Skai” and “just out of sight of Hatheg-Kla”, but the story obviously involves Dwerga being erased from the Dreamlands, presumably by the “Heads of Gyrwy”. Lovecraft imagines that when he visits it in his dreams it will be marked only by a marker … “rock [with] the tale writ thereon in a tongue to which no key exists outside certain hints in the dreaded Necronomicon“.

p. 228. “Good old [Arthur] Leeds is back [in New York City] and as a Coney Island barker”. Coney Island was the large and famous site of amusement parks, arcades and sideshows. A “barker “was the “roll up, roll up, see the two-headed man!” front-man who enticed people in to see a substantial attraction. Leeds was known to have worked a great deal with travelling circus and freak-show entertainers, as a straight ‘front-man’, so it was likely a freak show. Lovecraft’s letter was February 1933, so presumably Leeds had been hired to start in the spring and work through the new 1933 summer season. At this time Lovecraft had “not set eyes on him for five solid years”, implying that he and Leeds had last met circa January 1928. But they corresponded.

p. 228-29. His initial description of his new residence at 66 College Street, with drawings.

p. 238. In October 1933 he makes pictures of 66 College Street, having “dragged out my 1907 #2 Brownie” box camera.

p. 241. He discusses punctuation, especially the comma. He finds…

… the minuter details are largely trivial, custom-generated, & subject to diverse usage. No two people punctuate alike. […] the exact context aught to determine the insertion or absence of commas. Hard and fast blanket rules are never applicable to matters like [the one you cite]. […] All one need do is to try to be uniform […] I believe that punctuation aught to mark vocal and rhetorical pauses as well as purely logical divisions […] It is a mistake to regard punctuation as anything but a surface adjunct to language. […] It has nothing to do with grammar, but is merely a convenient device for clarifying the meaning of written language.

p. 242. In a discussion on the use of “Esq.” for names, Lovecraft notes his Providence tailor is a “Harry Steiner”.

p. 245. In early March 1934 and Lovecraft stated that the temperature outside No. 66 College Street was “17 degrees below [zero]”. His old place at Barnes Street had some heating fitted, late in Lovecraft’s tenure there. But the abundant steam-heat being pumped into No. 66 (from the adjacent John Hay Library) may well have helped prolong his life, given such deep sub-zero winter temperatures. I haven’t studied the matter in detail but I get the impression that the weather of the later 1920s/30s was far more turbulent than today, and involved more extremes of winter cold and summer heat.

p. 246. Lovecraft had however ventured through the “beastly weather”, going along the hill to visit the R.I. School of Design. There he had seen exhibitions of Egyptian and Etruscan tomb paintings, North Staffordshire pottery from England, and a “rather notable” show of Hispanic paintings.

p. 246. He states he is reading “Count de Prorok’s account of his Carthaginian excavations”. Born in 1896 and thus a near contemporary of Lovecraft, the Count Byron De Prorok excavated Carthage from 1920 to 1925. He became more and more one of the several ‘Indiana Jones like’ figures of the 1930s. Lovecraft was reading his book Digging for lost African gods; the record of five years archaeological excavation in North Africa (1926).

p. 247. He states he has just read Machen’s new book, The Green Round (1933). This was Machen’s final novel. A man visits the western parts of Wales and there enters a mysterious and apparently natural grassy hollow. He comes away with more than he expected, and brings it back to the metropolis. Lovecraft found the work “extremely interesting — with some very potent reflections on that persistent sense of unreal worlds impinging”. While it had the fault of “rambling diffuseness” and is “hardly one of Machen’s greatest”, he says “I’m vastly glad to have read it”. I note that the novel’s initial set-up sounds like it may have a similarity to the initial set-up of the Barrow Downs sequence, which happens early in The Lord of the Rings.

p. 248. Lovecraft has been to a local Providence cinema with Brobst. They saw the movie The Ghoul (1933) with Boris Karloff. Lovecraft passes no extended judgement, but only states tepidly that… “Some of the atmospheric effects weren’t bad”.

At No. 169

06 Friday Oct 2023

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This week on ‘Picture Postals from Lovecraft’, newly colourised views of 169 Clinton Street in 1935. These are two of the Sperr pictures, via the NYPL. 169 is the end residential building in the short row.

The building on the far right of the pictures had served as the New York Court of Special Sessions (of the Second Division, meaning Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond) since 1902… “The Second Division the Court of Special Sessions is now held at the corner of Atlantic avenue and Clinton street” at “171 Atlantic avenue”. The Court’s lease was renewed in 1922. This was the court for the trying of petty crimes. Meaning crime that merited either a fine, or some days in jail or in a youth reformatory. The presence of this court must have greatly increased the number of delinquent youths and low-life in the immediate vicinity of Lovecraft’s room, and on the sidewalks on the way to his nearby grocery store on the corner of Clinton and Atlantic.

One can just make out the “Tailor” sign, which may have been the Syrian tailor he mentioned and patronised. However, there was also a tailoring sign on might be small rentable units that ran down the side of the court building, so perhaps we can’t be quite sure. They may have been two tailors here, or one tailor with a shopfront and also a sign a bit further down the street.

The vacant and cleared lot was the site of the once lavish but later seedily decayed ‘Fouguera’ building, which was standing when Lovecraft lived at No. 169. 1934 was when the ‘slum clearance’ demolition boards went up on the ‘Fouguera’ building, as noted by the Brooklyn Eagle. Thus, walking down Clinton Street would have been a more canyon-like experience than the open sun-washed 1935 view above implies. Nevertheless, on a bright January day in 1925, it might not have looked too dark and gloomy…

Evidently in 1935 the roof had been changed and raised since 1926, to add the couple of attic rooms whose low windows we see in 1935.

In ‘The Cabinet’

29 Friday Sep 2023

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This week on ‘Picture Postals from Lovecraft’, the old home of the Rhode Island Historical Society. No interior pictures that I can find though, which seems a pity. Still, here’s the exterior…

On the right we see the former home of the Rhode Island Historical Society, aka ‘The Cabinet’, and with the name carved above the entrance. Opened in November 1844, an event in which one William Gammell (Professor of Rhetoric) gave the opening address. Gammell was of course the family name of Lovecraft’s aunts. I don’t have the genealogical wizardry of Ken Faig Jr. at my fingertips, but I wonder if Prof. Gammell was somewhere in Lovecraft’s family tree?

The city’s Public Library was then able to furnish me with a bigger but rather more garish scan of a postcard using the same picture…

It housed the Society’s library, and by the early 1890s had added a two-story domed extension. At this point a booklet was produced titled The Library and Cabinet of the Rhode Island Historical Society (truncated scan) and which gave an overview of the contents of its special collections. The booklet reveals the Society held the “Whipple papers” for 1661-1791, which I guess might have been Lovecraft’s grandfather’s line? They certainly later took the papers of Lovecraft’s uncle…

After his death last year, the R.I. Historical Society took over his unpublished manuscripts.” (November 1916, Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner)

One wonders if they still have them? Has any Lovecraftian ever looked through them?

Anyway there we have two reasons why Lovecraft might have occasionally visited. Also noted by the 1890s booklet are 1,700 bound local newspaper volumes. There are no further details of the library holdings, which would have been beyond the scope of the booklet, but at that time it held 15,000 books and 35,000 pamphlets.

Then “Brown acquired the [old] building in 1942”, according to the current Brown Repository notes. I’m uncertain of the exact date of the move of the library but Joshi has…

At the very end of his life Lovecraft saw the opening of the John Brown house (1786) as a museum, and it is now the home of the Rhode Island Historical Society.” (Joshi, I Am Providence)

New home of the Historical Society.

“At the very end of his life” and the “1942” date both suggest that in the colour postcards above we see the location for the “Historical Society” that Lovecraft would have known and used, when he wrote things like …

I looked up the R. I. [Rhode Island] Casey line in J. O. Austin’s Genealogical Dictionairy of R. I. at the R. I. Historical Society. I hadn’t done any looking since over a year ago, and had never tackled this book before — but bless me…” (Selected Letters II, page 323).

This was written in March 1929, so “over a year ago” suggests he may have been there late 1927, for some post-“Dexter Ward” work.

Also note that in his “The Shunned House”…

I was forced to ransack both the Rhode Island Historical Society and and Shepley Library

And in Dexter Ward, Ward’s…

hours were spent mainly at home, in rambling walks, in his classes and drills, and in pursuit of antiquarian and genealogical data at the City Hall, the State House, the Public Library, the Athenaeum, the Historical Society, the John Carter Brown and John Hay Libraries of Brown University, and the newly opened Shepley Library in Benefit Street.

Today the ‘old’ Historical Society building is ‘Mencoff Hall’ (68 Waterman Street, Providence). Luxuriously renovated and modernised, expanded up to four floors, and now devoted to Brown’s advanced post-doc training in Population Studies — seemingly as the subject relates to disease and public health.

In a nice nod to history, today the Rhode Island Historical Society’s online catalogue is still called ‘The Cabinet’.

I’d welcome interior pictures of this pre-war ‘Cabinet’, if anyone knows of any.

The Art Club

22 Friday Sep 2023

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This week on ‘picture postals from Lovecraft’, a continuation of last week’s theme. A look at some of the little side-ways that Lovecraft enjoyed and ventured down. Here is what looks like a press photograph (likely made with the ubiquitous pressman’s Rolleiflex square format camera, possibly late 1950s?). We see the Providence Art Club seen from an unusual angle. I’ve newly colorised the picture, which I’m fairly sure is from the Public Library collection.

A little way ahead of the cameraman, but before the artists on the sidewalk, we glimpse the archway and cobbled entrance… which was where Lovecraft used to often meet ‘Old Man’ after the master’s return to Providence…

He belonged to a market at the foot of Thomas Street — the hill street mentioned in Cthulhu as the abode of the young artist […] Occasionally he would stroll up the hill as far as the Art Club, seating himself at the entrance to one of those old-fashioned courtyard archways (formerly common everywhere) for which Providence is so noted. At night, when the electric lights make the street bright, the space within the archway would remain pitch-black, so that it looked like the mouth of an illimitable abyss, or the gateway of some nameless dimension. And there, as if stationed as a guardian of the unfathomed mysteries beyond, would crouch the sphinxlike, jet-black, yellow-eyed, & incredibly ancient form of Old Man. […] I came to regard him as an indispensable acquaintance, and would often go considerably out of my way to pass his habitual territory, on the chance that I might find him visible. Good Old Man! In fancy I pictured him as an hierophant of the mysteries behind the black archway, and wondered if he would ever invite me through it some midnight … Wondered, too, if I could ever could back to earth alive after accepting such an invitation.

The old Courthouse, and lane

15 Friday Sep 2023

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Following last week’s steeple picture, another bell-tower. The old Courthouse in a misty picture placed online by the Providence Public Library, here cleaned and colorised. This was presumably where the arrangements for the Lovecraft divorce were made, with Eddy Jr. giving testimony.

It was however gone by the time Lovecraft moved into No. 66, replaced by a new neo-Georgian Court House which retained the bell-tower.

In Letters to Wilfred B. Talman, on page 86 Lovecraft remarks that he especially likes ‘survivals’ rather than ‘restorations’ in antiquities, and he makes the distinction between the two. An example of a cherished survival is “a lingering bit of the past [such as] the lane back of the Athenaeum” in Providence. In the above picture we see the start of this lane, on the near right of the picture…

Here we see the lane in a more familiar view, looking up College Street…

The map shows the lane as quite long, and giving access to many back-gardens, presumably via gates…

This lane was still there when Lovecraft was in No. 66. Because here we also see the start of the same little lane at the back of the Athenaeum, although the time is the early 1930s and the new Courthouse is under construction beyond…

This picture suggests that by circa 1931 the lane had been “improved”, with new fencing and what looks like a stern sign which says “No (something)”. Possibly “No Parking”, as the blight of mass car-ownership was then spreading. It seems to still be there today, though no Street View camera has ventured down it…

As seen above, the 1870s building was replaced in the early 1930s by a new Courthouse. Here we see the Benefit Street ‘top level’ corridor inside that new building, and the entrance to the elevator.

Elderly ladies, and perhaps some elderly gents such as Lovecraft when with visitors or his aunt, could enter at South Main Street (street market, former Old Brick Row, and a car park by the mid 1930s) on the lowest level, and then ascend by elevator to the higher Benefit Street exit, thus bypassing the steepest part of the climb up College Street. Here we see the imposing corridor which the intrepid elevator-hopper would then have to brave to reach the top exit.

This would also have been the long walk made to arrange matters involved in the disposal of Lovecraft’s estate.

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