{"id":40670,"date":"2020-07-30T05:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T02:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=40670"},"modified":"2020-07-30T05:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T02:43:34","slug":"lovecrafts-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/lovecrafts-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft’s barn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in May I briefly mused<\/a> on Lovecraft’s barn, where in 1934 he stored crates of the old 18th century books that he had grown up with and inherited.<\/p>\n

In the Moe letters I’ve now come across another mention of this barn. It was located “about a mile away” from Barnes Street in 1930, and it then contained Lovecraft’s carbons for his pre-“Dagon” period of writing. This places the location approximately under this marked area…<\/p>\n

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This at least narrows the field, for those with access to barn-level street maps from the period. The ‘mile’ might be a little further in, if Lovecraft factored ‘wiggle-room’ into his walking distances.<\/p>\n

One possible clue is that his younger aunt lived “about a mile away” from Barnes Street, before the move to 66 College Street. Her pre-1933 vicinity might be the best place to start looking for a barn.<\/p>\n

It may also help to know that “Old Providence Barns” were catalogued and photographed by John Hutchins Cady in 1948.<\/p>\n

This barn is to be differentiated from the substantial 1881 horse-stable at Lovecraft’s boyhood home, which he told Moe was being demolished in August 1931 (Letters to Maurice W. Moe<\/em>, page 311). Though it must have had a hay-loft to store the winter horse feed, and one letter states that this stable was later used to store the books of a friend-of-the-family. One imagines that dry book-storage, located within a mile of Brown University, might have been in demand during that period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in May I briefly mused on Lovecraft’s barn, where in 1934 he stored crates of the old 18th century …<\/p>\n

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