{"id":46423,"date":"2021-03-26T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=46423"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T08:38:29","slug":"long-hats-and-the-high-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/long-hats-and-the-high-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Long, hats, and the high bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more insights gleaned from <em>Letters to Family<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* It was Lovecraft who introduced Long to the second-hand bookshops of New York City, and not the other way around. Presumably Long had, until 1922, purchased purely from the ordinary bookshops and perhaps via the lists of mail-order dealers. Lovecraft notes that Long had never once entered the city&#8217;s many used bookstores. On learning that he could sell books fairly easily, Long lugged a suitcase full of unwanted books downtown and sold them for $4 credit.<\/p>\n<p>* Sonia&#8217;s affluence and profligacy with money are a little better understood when one learns that she had private clients. For these she made exclusive hats, and was able to work from home to turn $20 of raw materials into a $60 designer hat. In today&#8217;s money that means she was making $600 profit per hat, and there was then a huge demand for fancy hats.<\/p>\n<p>* In 1922 Lovecraft knew Poe&#8217;s High Bridge as &#8220;Highbridge&#8221;, and visited it and other Poe places in 1922.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more insights gleaned from Letters to Family&#8230; * It was Lovecraft who introduced Long to the second-hand bookshops &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/long-hats-and-the-high-bridge\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46423","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=46423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}