{"id":9296,"date":"2013-09-19T14:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2013-09-19T14:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T11:40:55","slug":"the-private-papers-of-henry-ryecroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/09\/19\/the-private-papers-of-henry-ryecroft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft<\/em> (1903), by George Gissing. Apparently one of H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s favorite books, and one on which he based his personal philosophy of life.  Sonia stated that she received a copy of it early in their courtship, with instructions to read it to better understand him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gissing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gissing.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"gissing\" width=\"529\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curiously the book isn&#8217;t listed in <em>Lovecraft&#8217;s Library<\/em>.  My guess on that would be that S.T. Joshi had to weigh Sonia&#8217;s solo revelation about the book, against Lovecraft&#8217;s apparent utter silence on Gissing in all his other walks of life and voluminous correspondence.  And the similar silence of his bibliophile friends on the book. But if you&#8217;d like to take a look, the book is available here: Dutton U.S. first edition <a href=\"http:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.b275093;view=2up;seq=10\">online digital facsimile<\/a> and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/1463.kindle.noimages\">.mobi for Kindle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), by George Gissing. Apparently one of H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s favorite books, and one on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/09\/19\/the-private-papers-of-henry-ryecroft\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","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=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}