Abstract

Praise for "Polaris" and "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (the latter of which was the first story Smith ever read, on loan from Samuel Loveman in 1919 or 1920); on Lovecraft's hints about "The Whisperer in Darkness" and Edmond Hamilton; "The Red World of Polaris" not yet submitted to Wonder Stories, waiting for Gernsback to pay on "Andromeda"; on the content of Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories, compared to the Atlantic (with mention of Weird Tales, "The Dunwich Horror", and Fitz-James O'Brien's "The Diamond Lens"); an Indian summer and working outdoors; "The Immeasurable Horror" submitted to Amazing Stories, Farnsworth Wright accepted two poems ("A Chinese Vase" and "Jungle Twilight") for Oriental Stories. Postscript: Received Lovecraft's card from Quebec; Smith begun "The Eggs from Saturn" and "The Ocean-World of Alioth"; Smith sending a statuette of Tsathoggua (with an anecdote about Helen Sully and the finding of it); "The Voyage from Sfanomoë" received; Smith sick with a bad cold; Gernsback paid for "Andromeda."

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Included In

• Clark Ashton Smith: Letters to H. P. Lovecraft (highly abridged)
• Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith (abridged)