{"id":10450,"date":"2014-05-15T00:57:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T21:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10450"},"modified":"2014-05-15T00:57:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T21:57:56","slug":"1922-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/05\/15\/1922-postcard\/","title":{"rendered":"1922 postcard"},"content":{"rendered":"

H.P. Lovecraft Original Handwritten Postcard 1922<\/a> on eBay. This sits between the 1922 and 1924 sections in the volume of collected New York letters.<\/p>\n

Sent 12th October 1922 from Brooklyn NYC, to Galpin in Wisconsin. Lovecraft was at that time a guest of Sonia in NYC.<\/p>\n

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“Just read Belknape’s [Frank Belknap Long] epistle — for —’s sake chuck the free verse! Hope you got my letter all right. Have been tiring out my aunt — taking her to museums, Van Courtland mansion, & Columbia College [Columbia University, presumably to get a repeat of the exhaustive tour of the campus that Lovecraft had had some weeks earlier from Long, who was then a student there]. Tonight [11th Oct] the gang dines at Belknape’s — pipe de Jawn Hancocks [slangy: military \/ historical allusion + humorous dialect overlay. Meaning: ‘stand by to receive their fancy signatures’],
\n      Grandpa Theobald & aunt”<\/p>\n

      Appended signatures: A.E.P.G. [Annie E. P. Gamwell, Lovecraft’s aunt] | Mrs J. B. Long [the host, Long’s mother] | Francois [Loveman??] | S.H.G. [Sonia] | Edgar A. Poe [Long?] | T.S. Eliot [Kirk?]<\/p>\n

A “John Hancock” was then slang for an overly large and fantastic signature, after the standout Hancock signature on the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H.P. Lovecraft Original Handwritten Postcard 1922 on eBay. This sits between the 1922 and 1924 sections in the volume of …<\/p>\n

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