{"id":5575,"date":"2017-10-25T21:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2021-01-29T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:06:29","slug":"historically-yours-podcast-episode-7-academics-fans-h-p-lovecraft-and-the-price-of-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2017\/10\/25\/historically-yours-podcast-episode-7-academics-fans-h-p-lovecraft-and-the-price-of-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Historically Yours Podcast: Academics, Fans, H.P. Lovecraft, and the price of paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this episode of Historically Yours,\u00a0School of Library and Information Science graduate student Kathryn Heffner\u00a0reads a typed letter on Arkham House letterhead with details relating to what it took to get HP Lovecraft published during World War II, both figuratively and literally.<\/p>\n

Listen here:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Download this episode (right click and save)<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Letter:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Msc0429, Thomas Ollive Mabbott Papers<\/p>\n

August Derleth to Thomas Ollive Mabbott<\/p>\n

9 June 1943<\/p>\n

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Dear Mr. Mabbott:
Many thanks for your card. However, Dyalhis is dead, I understand. What with WPB paper restrictions, slowness of the fans to buy, etc., half our authors will be dead and we\u2019ll have trouble with their estates before we can public the books we want to do. For instance, we have Whitehead\u2019s JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES ready to go, but we can\u2019t get a release for the estate, nor could we get enough paper for even so little as 1000 copies! If we were to publish it now, we could get paper enough for 900 copies, but then we couldn\u2019t publish the 2nd Lovecraft. As it is, we\u2019ll probably have to publish half the Lovecraft edition this autumn, and then the other half after January 1st, if we can\u2019t get enough paper released so that we can use it. We also have coming Donald Wandrei\u2019s THE EYE AND THE FINGER, but this, too, is likely to be held back until 1945, unless we can get the paper for this second Lovecraft, which will in any case be delayed into later September.
All best wishes to you.
Sincerely,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Guest:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kathryn E. Heffner<\/p>\n

The University of Iowa, BLIS Student<\/p>\n

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