This one seems suitably timed for a ‘back to school’ \/ ‘back to uni’ Picture Postals post. The postcard shows an especially lively view of the Brown University gates at the top of College street (the ‘Van Wickle gates’). These were a stone’s throw from Lovecraft’s last home behind the John Hay Library, and he would have used them when accessing the campus grounds. He visited for public lecture series, and I recall he sometimes took a walk around the fine architecture and parkland campus with his aunt. Here we also see the John Hay, later to house the Lovecraft Collection.<\/p>\n
I’ve colorised the picture.<\/p>\n And here are the gates from the other side, the road side. Showing the hint of white marble Roman columns behind, something Lovecraft would have appreciated.<\/p>\n And here is Lovecraft sitting in a nook in the same gates in the 1930s.<\/p>\n The gates as the basis for the cover of Lovecraft Studies<\/em> #5, and re-imagined as an entrance to Miskatonic University…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/john-hay-students-late-1940s-col.jpg\")
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