{"id":12093,"date":"2014-07-15T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T06:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12093"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T06:51:37","slug":"albert-chapin-1869-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/15\/albert-chapin-1869-1946\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Chapin (1869-1946)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poetic tribute to Lovecraft, in <em>Inklings<\/em> No.7, May 1938, from one who obviously knew him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/chapin_inklings_no7_may1938.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/chapin_inklings_no7_may1938.jpg\" alt=\"chapin_inklings_no7_may1938\" width=\"451\" height=\"677\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12094\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albert Chapin (1869-1946) was described as one of the &#8220;New England [amateur] journalists&#8221; in an article on a convention in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefossils.org\/fossil\/fos333.pdf\">1941<\/a>. The  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefossils.org\/horvat\/aj\/states\/Massachusetts.htm\">&#8220;History of Early Amateur Journalism in Massachusetts&#8221;<\/a> implies that he published a journal called &#8220;the Minstrel, Albert Chapin, West Roxbury&#8221; toward the end of the 1890s and\/or early 1900s. <\/p>\n<p>Chapin had a variety of work published in <em>The Californian<\/em> in the mid 1930s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/chapin_poems.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/chapin_poems.jpg\" alt=\"chapin_poems\" width=\"441\" height=\"219\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12096\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears he began the <em>Minstrel<\/em> title again in the late 1930s and continued it into the 1940s, also from &#8220;11 Hillcrest Street, West Roxbury, Mass.&#8221;, which is six miles SW of Boston &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mistrel1943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mistrel1943.jpg\" alt=\"mistrel1943\" width=\"356\" height=\"575\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12095\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems there are several mid 1930s letters from Chapin to Lovecraft in the John Hay Library collection at Brown University, and even a photograph of Chapin, so it seems he and Lovecraft  corresponded although probably only briefly.  Lovecraft quoted four lines from a Chapin poem in his own late essay &#8220;What Belongs in Verse&#8221; (1935), which further suggests that their correspondence was around 1935.  My guess that Chapin was at that time an old amateur &#8216;coming back to the fold&#8217; in the mid 1930s after decades of quiescence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poetic tribute to Lovecraft, in Inklings No.7, May 1938, from one who obviously knew him&#8230; Albert Chapin (1869-1946) was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/15\/albert-chapin-1869-1946\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}