023-0090
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FROM Clark Ashton Smith | |
TO Donald Wandrei | |
6-Dec-1926 |
Abstract
On the death of George Sterling, with a quote from Benjamin de Casseres and a clipping from the San Francisco Chronicle; on Sterling's poetry, particularly "A Wine of Wizardry" (and Ambrose Bierce's eulogy of it), Lilith, Sails and Mirage, and The House of Orchids; Wandrei's article (The Emperor of Dreams) is out in the Overland Monthly; on how Ebony & Crystal was ignored by most notable literary critics (William Rose Benet, Conrad Aiken, Stuart P. Sherman); on Sterling's mention of Samuel Loveman's The Hermaphrodite in "Rhymes and Reactions" in the Overland Monthly (with a quote from The Hermaphrodite); Smith ordering extra copies of the Overland Monthly where Wandrei's article appears, promising two to H. P. Lovecraft.
Cited By
Included In
- Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith (unabridged)
Preceded By 023-0084 | Letters of Clark Ashton Smith and Donald Wandrei | Followed by 023-0091 |
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Preceded By 023-0089 | Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith | Followed By 023-0091 |
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