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Howard, in the wake of his son\'s tragic and unexpected suicide..
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All Letters are exhaustively annotated by the editors, and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography of both writers as well as the publication of a few Letters to Lovecraft from Robert E.
World affairs, including the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, also engage their attention.
Roosevelt\'s election.
Each has great praise for the other\'s writings in Weird Tales and elsewhere, and each conducts searching discussions of literature, philosophy, politics, and economics in the wake of the depression and Franklin D.
Lovecraft regales Howard with his extensive travels up and down the eastern seaboard, including trips to Quebec, Florida, and obscure corners of New England, while Howard writes engagingly of his own travels through the lonely stretches of Texas.
Howard, the two authors continue their wide-ranging discussion of such central issues as the relative value of barbarism and civilization, the virtues of the frontier and of settled city life, and other related issues.
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In the second volume of the Letters of H
