So, today I got a flyer from Heritage Auctions (the folks I got the Sime from, who now won't stop sending me message after message about other things they have that I don't want) that a set of ten Lovecraft letters, mostly unpublished, to one F. J. Pabody* (1932-1937) are being auctioned off, with an expected price of about $20,000. That's a lot, and just goes to show how mainstreamed Lovecraft has become (like Tolkien, and increasingly Lewis as well).
Here's the link:
http://historical.ha.com/itm/books/hp-lovecraft-ten-autograph-letters-totaling-forty-six-pages-signed-by-hp-lovecraft-to-frederic-jay-pabody-providence-/a/6155-45111.s
--John R.
*looking at the name, I'd guess it was the inspiration for Dr. Pabodie, creator of the famous drill of the same name, in HPL's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
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Not likely, since HPL had finished "At the Mountains of Madness" already on 22 March 1931. Pabodie and its variants are apparently typical New-England names, hence its use in AtMoM.
There is also an E. Lapham Peabody in "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and a Peabody Avenue in "The Dreams in the Witch House".
Anyway, its cool to see "new" Lovecraft letters on the market.
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