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<\/a><\/p>\nHat-tip: H. P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project<\/a>. Sadly there appears to be no larger version available. <\/p>\n “We rowed on the lake, and played with the cats, or walked on the highway with these cats as the unbelievable sun went down among pines and cypresses … Above all, we talked, chiefly of the fantastic tales which he wrote and which I was trying to write. At breakfast he told us his dreams.” (Robert Barlow, “The Wind that Is in the Grass”, 1944).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I note there’s also a new 1936 photo dated “September 19 or 20” of “Eunice French and Lovecraft”, on the hplovecraft.com gallery<\/a>…<\/p>\n So who was Eunice French? She was a “Master of Arts in Philosophy” student at Brown University, who was then being courted by Robert Moe, the son of Lovecraft’s friend Maurice Moe. Lovecraft had first met Robert as a small boy in 1923, and he seems to have served as a sort of uncle to him, then started a correspondence (now lost?) with Robert in 1934. Robert doesn’t seem to have been able to win Eunice, since in Nov 1938 she married a fellow musician and Harvard man named Cyril Maurice Owen. A letter to Barlow shows that Lovecraft considered her a brilliant savant<\/em> and, once introduced to Lovecraft, informs us that she went round to see the master several times during her time at Brown.<\/p>\n Eunice kept all her correspondence<\/a> which is now in a university archive, and one thus wonders if there’s a very slim chance that a Lovecraft postcard or two might lurk therein? Or (more likely) letters from Robert in which he talks of Lovecraft?<\/p>\n This photo also shows Lovecraft’s black writing materials case, which I thought had escaped ever being photographed. Many commented (see Lovecraft Remembered<\/em>) on its curious and unique appearance. It can also be seen doodled by Lovecraft on this 1934 postcard self portrait…<\/p>\n Lovecraft photographed in Florida, with some of Barlow’s cats (note that there’s also a white cat walking on the path …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> See it and another snap of it, at the “Lovecraft at the Atheneum”<\/a> album on Flickr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"