Lovecraft's Use of Libraries
Posted by:
Dale Nelson (IP Logged)
Date: 5 August, 2019 04:44PM
I thought I might have asked about this before, but I don't see a thread title that sounds like it.
Please help me if you can. What good evidence do we have regarding Lovecraft's use of public libraries, university libraries, etc.?
I have begun to write an article for the monthly Tolkien newsletter, [/i]Beyond Bree[i]. It's my intention to discuss the libraries of C. S. Lewis (the catalogue of which is available online), J. R. R. Tolkien (the catalogue of which should be published very shortly), and HPL (I have received in today's mail the 4th edition of the Joshi/Schultz catalogue). Of course my focus will be on the books each man owned (and I anticipate finding some interesting overlaps between two or three of the three -- and also with the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series list of 1969-1974), but I wanted to say something about each man's access to books in libraries. Lewis and Tolkien, of course, were Oxford academics, and, in Lewis's case, eventually a Cambridge professor, so they would have had access to those great British libraries. I want to know what libraries Lovecraft certainly used. It would be nice if you could cite a source(s) on this.
Thanks for your help.
Dale Nelson