{"id":12214,"date":"2014-02-10T08:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2014-06-03T00:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T05:05:18","slug":"library-additions-envelope-of-letter-from-h-p-lovecraft-to-robert-barlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12214","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Envelope of Letter from H. P. Lovecraft to Robert Barlow"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now you should have figured out that book collectors are insane. If not, what I paid for the following item should convince you:<\/p>\n

Lovecraft, H. P. Envelope Addressed to Robert Barlow<\/b>, with Lovecraft’s return address on the back, in Lovecraft’s own handwriting. Postmarked December 4, 1931. <\/p>\n

\"Lovecraft<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lovecraft<\/a><\/p>\n

Barlow<\/a> was a longtime correspondent of Lovecraft’s. The envelope itself bears the return address for another Lovecraft associate, bookseller George W. Kirk, a fellow member of the “Kalem Club<\/a>,” a group of close friends from the time he lived in New York City from 1924-1927.<\/p>\n

Bought for $328 off eBay. <\/p>\n

Pretty much all books Lovecraft signed in his lifetime, as well as letters, postcards, etc., have commas in the price. This struck me as a way I could afford a Lovecraft signature. <\/p>\n

Now I just need those James Tiptree, Jr. and Thomas Pynchon signatures…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now you should have figured out that book collectors are insane. If not, what I paid for the following item should convince you: Lovecraft, H. P. Envelope Addressed to Robert Barlow, with Lovecraft’s return address on the back, in Lovecraft’s own handwriting. Postmarked December 4, 1931. Barlow was a longtime correspondent of Lovecraft’s. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[1973,22,693,1979,1749,1491],"class_list":["post-12214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","tag-books","tag-cthulhu","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-horror","tag-r-h-barlow","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12214"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12635,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions\/12635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}