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Formal title:: Karl Edward Wagner papers
Extent:: 9.0 Linear feet
Date range:: circa 1968-1994
Abstract:: The Karl Edward Wagner papers contain fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, correspondence, and financial records. The material dates from 1968 through 1994.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2002.002

Weir (John) J. papers

Formal title:: John J. Weir papers
Extent:: 0.25 Linear feet
Date range:: 1934-2001 (bulk 1934-1940)
Abstract:: John J. Weir (1922-1977) grew up in the small seaside town of South Amboy, New Jersey. He became an avid reader of science fiction and horror in 1934 to escape the suffocating boredom of small town life. The John Weir papers contain autograph and typed correspondence to and from science fiction fans who were subscribers of or contributors to Weir’s fan magazine Fantasmagoria. Weir also received mail from many famous writers of the day, including H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, William Lumley, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Sam Moskowitz, Emil Petaja, John Baltadonis, and Duane Rimel. The collection also includes a photograph, postcards, an issue of the fan magazine Sweetness and Light, and John Weir’s Scripto pencil.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2015.023

Formal title:: Howard P. Lovecraft collection
Extent:: 10 linear feet
Date range:: 1880-1984
Abstract:: Personal and literary correspondence both by and to Lovecraft; manuscript and typescript drafts of fiction, non-fiction, poems, plays and drawings by Lovecraft. Correspondence between friends, family, and associates of Lovecraft. Subjects include horror fiction, New England antiquities, and the amateur press. Significant correspondents include Robert H. Barlow, Robert Bloch, W. Paul Cook, August Derleth, Ernest A. Edkins, Sonia H. Greene Davis (Lovecraft's wife), Frank Belknap Long, Jr., E. Hoffman Price, Clark Ashton Smith, and Donald Wandrei among many others. The collection also includes a small selection of photographs of Lovecraft, friends and associates and objects owned by Lovecraft.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.Lovecraft

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