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TO SCHONFIELD, HUGH G. (1)

To Hugh G. Schonfield, June 15, 1933, As I promised, in answer to your letter . . .

TO  SMITH, CLARK ASHTON (10) 

To Clark Ashton Smith, pm, June 1933, I hardly know how to thank you for the copy.

To Clark Ashton Smith, ca. July 1933, I really must apologize for not having . . .

To Clark Ashton Smith, pm, July 22, 1933, I can hardly find words to express . . .

To Clark Ashton Smith, ca. October 1933, Thanks very much for the kind things . . .

To Clark Ashton Smith, pm, December 14, 1933, Only the fact that I have been sick . . .

To Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked, December 20, 1933. Christmas card
This is a signed Christmas card REH sent to CAS.

To Clark Ashton Smith, ca. January 1934, Thanks again for the drawing of the wizard.

To Clark Ashton Smith, ca. March 1934, I am sorry to hear you have been indisposed . . .

To Clark Ashton Smith, pm, May 21 1934, My delay in answering your last letter . . .

To Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935, I’m ashamed of my long delay in answering . . .

TO SMITH, TEVIS CLYDE: 1923 - 1929 (73)

To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 8, 1923, Hello Clyde, / May the blessing of Allah rest upon you.
     Contains Untitled ("When Napoleon down in Africa . . .") (poem) and "Neolithic Love Song" (poem).
     Handwritten, from Marlin, Texas; includes a simple multi-panel cartoon to go with "Neolithic Love Song".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22, 1923, Clyde sahib, greeting: / I found your first letter waiting . . .
     Contains Untitled ("The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo . .") (poem) and Untitled ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped among the racing horde . . .") (poem)

To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1923, To Clyde bahadur-sahib, greeting: / I got your letter . . .
     Contains "The Dook of Stork".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923, Clyde Sahib, Bohut Salaam, Bahadur: / The picnic has . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Bill Boozy was a pirate bold") (poem) and Untitled ("Out of Asia the tribesmen came") (poem)

To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923, Clyde sahib: / You say I’ll be in Kabul.
     Contains Untitled ("A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs") (poem) and Untitled ("A hundred years the great war raged") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. August 21, 1923, Salaam, Clyde sahib, / I haven’t got any answer . . .
     This is a postcard.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 24, 1923, Bohut Salaam, Clyde sahib: / I was all ready to come over to Brownwood . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, September 9, 1923, Clyde sahib: / First off I must apologize for not having . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 5, 1923, Salaam, Clyde: / Maybe you think I’ve moved away . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, November 4, 1923, Bohut salaam, Clyde bahadur: / It’s been quite a while . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 21, 1924, Salaam, Clyde sahib: / I should have written you sooner . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 19, 1924, Salaam, Clyde sahib: / I suppose you think I’m rather slow . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, September 7, 1924, Salaam, Clyde, / You ought to be here.
     Contains Untitled ("Palm-trees are waving in the Gulf breeze") (poem).
     Handwritten, likely on some hotel notepad. From Weslaco, TX, a small town near Brownsville.
     Likely from a family vacation.  Includes three hand-drawn cartoons by REH.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 7, 1925, Salaam, Clyde sahib: / I was in Brownwood the other day . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925, Salaam, sahib: / I’m sending you a lot of junk . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Hills of the North! Lavender hills") (poem); Untitled ("Dark are your eyes") (poem);
     "Slugger’s Vow" (poem); Untitled ("I am the spirit of War!") (poem); and Untitled ("I lay in Yen’s opium joint") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, February 25, 1925, Salaam, sahib: / Chapter XIX / Writers of the Bunkorian Age . . .
     Contains the poem "The Bombing of Gon Fanfew" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, March 17, 1925, The top o’ the marnin’, O’Clydo: / Faith and bejabbers!
     Contains "The Sappious Few Menchew".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 6, 1925, Salaam, sahib: / What ho! I have never read the original . . .
     Contains "The Post of the Sappy Skipper" and "The Bored of the Cow".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 24, 1925, Salaam: / Hot zowie, old topper, we’ve got the makings . . .
     Contains "When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham" (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 3, 1925
    A gag letter written on a lawyer’s letterhead, calling Smith to court to answer the charge of rape.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June, 1925, Know all men …

To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1925, Salaam, sahib: / I believe you owe me a letter.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 16, 1925, Salaam, sahib: / What ho, milord! / Boy, I hope you’re . . .
     Contains Untitled ("And Dempsey climbed into the ring . . .") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. post July 20, 1925, Salaam, Clyde: / Old boy, I got your letter. I can’t say that it . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925, Salaam: / I’m glad you passed the exams . . .
     Contains Untitled ("I tell you this my friend") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 26, 1925, Salaam: / I’ve been thinking. What is reality and what is . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925, Salaam: / I’ve been thinking. Did you ever stop . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Mingle my dust with the burning brand") (poem) and Untitled ("Roses laughed in her pretty hair") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 9, 1925, Salaam, sahib: / Say, bo, you’re developing into a real poet.
     Contains Untitled ("All the crowd") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926, Salaam, bahadur, bohut salaam: / By Baal I am joyed that . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926, Salaam: / This is a habit of mine, always was . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, Spring 1926, If you don't publish this . . .
     Contains "The Viking of the Sky" (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926, Salaam: / Being in an (un)poetical mood . . .
     Contains "The Dancer" (poem); "Destiny" (2) (poem); "Laughter" (poem); Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses") (poem);
     and Untitled ("The shades of night were falling faster") (poem). 

To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 7, 1926, Salaam: / I’m sending you a flock of poetry . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926, Salaam: / I’m trying to write again, with the usual result . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Give ye of my best . . .") (poem); Untitled ("Early in the morning I gazed . . .") (poem); "Eternity" (poem);
     "Serpent" (poem); "Shadows" (3) (poem); "Destiny" (3) (poem); "Adventure" (2) (poem); "Libertine" (poem); "Nun" (poem);
     "Prude" (poem); "Adventurer" (poem); "Poet" (poem); "Dancer" (poem); "Dreamer" (poem); "Sailor" (poem); "Cowboy" (poem);
     "Toper" (poem); "Girl" (poem); "Deeps" (poem); "Thor" (poem); "Mystic" (poem); "Orientia" (poem);
     "The Mountains of California" (poem); "Monarchs" (poem); "Lust" (poem); "The Alamo" (poem); "San Jacinto" (1) (poem);
     "Romance" (2) (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1926, Salaam, sahib: / In the first place, pardon for not having . . .
     Contains "Arcadian Days" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 21, 1926, Bohut salaam, sahib: / I think you owe me one, two, three . . .
     Contains "Twilight on Stonehenge" (poem) and "Ocean-Thoughts" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. mid-September 1927, Salaam: / Having just got your letter I’ll write now . . .
     Contains "The Road to Hell" (early version, only lines 1-4, 24-28) (poem); "Flight" (early version, incomplete) (poem); and
     Untitled ("The Baron of Fenland . . .") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. mid to late-September 1927, Salaam: / Seeking cognizance of things looked after . . .
     Contains "The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu;" "Lilith" (poem); "The Gods Remember" (1) (poem); "The Dreams of Men" (poem);
     "The Builders" (2) (poem); "The Road to Babel" (poem); "Memories" (2) (poem); and Untitled ("Tell me not in coocoo numbers").


To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1927, ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN TO WHOM . . .
     Contains "Revenge"; "Legend"; "Where Strange Gods Squall (part 1)"; Untitled ("Take some honey from a cat") (poem);
     "The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts" (poem); Untitled ("Against the blood red moon . . .") (poem);
     and Untitled (“Toast to the British! . . .”) (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. fall 1927, Salaam: / Then the little boy said to Goofus Gorilla . . .
     Contains "Where Strange Gods Squall (part 2)" Untitled ("What's become of Waring?") (poem);
     "The Robes of the Righteous" (poem); and Untitled ("After the trumps are sounded") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. probably late 1927, early 1928, I wasn’t lying to you Saturday evening when . . .
     Contains "King Hootus"; "Symbols" (poem); "Romany Road" (poem); "Love" (poem); "The Chant Demoniac" (poem);
     "A Man" (poem); "The Grey Lover" (poem); "Life" (1) (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1928, Salaam: / Listen, you crumb, I think you already owe me a letter.
     Contains "Wolfsdung"; Untitled ("Keep women, thrones and kingly lands") (poem);
     Untitled ("The world goes back to the primitive, yea") (poem); Untitled ("I do not sing of a paradise") (poem);
     Untitled ("Mother Eve, Mother Eve, . . .") (poem); and Untitled ("The east is red and I am dead") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, week of February 20, 1928, The fellow who wrote The Kasidah strung . . .
     Contains Untitled ("A typical small town drugstore . . .").

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. between 1926 and March 1928, Ha ha! Your not going to get off so easily . . .
     Contains "The Coming of Bast" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928, The only reason for writing this letter . . .
     Contains "Keresa, Keresita" (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928, Salaam: / Not having much of anything specially to say . . .
     Contains "How to Select a Successful Evangelist" (poem); "The Choir Girl" (poem); "A Song of Cheer" (poem);
     "Repentance" (poem); and Untitled ("I am MAN from the primal . . .") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928, Salaam: / Glad you’re writing these days . . .
     Contains Untitled ("The spiders of weariness . . .") (poem); "The Dust Dance" (various portions from (2)) (poem);
     Untitled ("Moses was our leader . . .") (poem); "Secrets" (poem); "The Dust Dance" (portions from (1)) (poem); and "The Chinese Gong" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1928, Salaam: / So Klatt has gone West.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928, handwritten, Not even a movie in this godforsaken town . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928, Salaam: / Ho, ho, the long lights lift amain . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Ho, ho, the long lights lift amain . . .") (poem); "The Rump of Swift"; "A Young Wife’s Tale" (poem);
     "Lesbia" (1) (poem); "A Roman Lady" (poem); Untitled ("They matched me up that night . . .") (poem);
     "Song of a Fugitive Bard" (poem); Untitled (“A cringing woman’s lot . . .”) (poem); and "Nights to Both of Us Known" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1928, Salaam: / A Warning to Orthodoxy
     Contains "A Warning to Orthodoxy" (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. probably late 1928, Salaam: / Shadows of Dreams
     Contains "Shadows of Dreams" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1928, Salaam: / I could have gone with you for dinner if . . .
     Contains "The Ecstasy of Desolation" (poem). 

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1928, Salaam: / The reason I’m sending The Junto to you . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928, Salaam: / Listen you goddamn so forth . . .
     Contains "A Song of the Anchor Chain" (poem) and "The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore" (poem).
     Note: Only the first four lines of  "The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore" were originally believed to be part of this letter.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928, Salaam: / I’ll swear you’re the only galoot I ever heard of . . .
     Contains "Song from an Ebony Heart" (poem); Untitled ("Swords glimmered up the pass") (poem); "Rebellion" (poem);
     "A Great Man Speaks" (poem); "Yodels of Good Cheer to the Pipple, Damn Them" (poem); Untitled ("He clutched his . . .") (poem);
     Untitled ("Noah was my applesauce") (poem). 

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928, Salaam: / I got such a laugh . . .
     Contains "Nancy Hawk – A Legend of Virginity" (poem); Untitled ("Drawers that a girl . . .") (poem); Untitled ("Tumba Hooey");
     and "To a Nameless Woman (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928, Heh heh! / At last I’ve sold a story to Ghost Stories.
     Contains Untitled ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight") (poem); Untitled ("Old Faro Bill was a man of might") (poem);
     Untitled ("Rebel souls from the falling dark") (poem); "The Call of Pan" (poem);
     and Untitled ("A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne") (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928, Heh heh! / Sappho, the Grecian . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold") (poem); Untitled ("Romona! Romona!") (poem);
     "A Fable for Critics" (poem); "Flaming Marble" (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928, Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more . . .
     Contains "The People of the Winged Skull"; Untitled ("Oh, we are little children . . .") (poem); Untitled ("The tall man answered: . . .") (poem);
     Untitled ("The tall man rose and said: . . .") (poem); Untitled ("The tall man said: . . .") (poem);
     and Untitled ("Moonlight and shadows barred the land") (poem).  The poems are contained in the story.  
     Untitled ("Let me live as I was born to live . . .") (poem); Untitled ("Adam's loins were mountains, . . .") (poem);
     "The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore" (poem); "A Ballad of Insanity" (poem); "That Women May Sing of Us" (poem);
     "Sighs in the Yellow Leaves" (poem); Untitled ("I hate the man who tells me . . .") (poem); and "A Far Country" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. probably late 1928, early 1929, Salaam: / I have forgotten whether you or Truett . . .
     Contains "A Song of College" (poem); "A Song of Greenwich" (poem); and "Ballade" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928, Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Out in front of Goldstein’s . . .") (poem); "The Deed Beyond the Deed" (poem); "An American" (poem);
     Untitled ("There’s an isle far away . . .") (poem); "Shadow of Dreams" (poem); "My Children" (poem);
     Untitled ("The women come and . . .") (poem); "Silence Falls on Mecca’s Walls" (poem); "The Last Words He Heard" (poem);
     Untitled ("Flappers flicker . . .") (poem); Untitled ("I hold all women . . .") (poem); and Untitled ("Love is singing soft and low") (poem). 

To Unknown Recipient (likely Tevis Clyde Smith), undated, unsent, ca. probably late 1928, Show this to Truett . . .
     Contains "To An Earth Bound Soul" (poem); "To All Lords of Commerce" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith,  ca. after July 1925, before 1930, probably ca. early 1929, Salaam: / There once was a wicked . . .
     Contains Untitled ("There once was a wicked old elf") (poem); Untitled ("There are grim things did, . . .") (poem); and "To Lyle Saxon" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929, Salaam: / Ancient English Balladel
     Contains "Ancient English Balladel" (poem) and Untitled ("At the Inn of the Gory Dagger") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929, Salaam: / Last night the Sunday School class had a party . . .
     Contains "The Case of the College Toilet"; Untitled ("And there were lethal women . . .") (poem);
     Untitled ("A haunting cadence . . .") (poem); Untitled ("Through the mists of silence . . .") (poem); and "The Mysteries" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929, Salaam: / Black Dawn
     Contains "Black Dawn" (poem); "The Path of Strange Wanderers" (poem); "At the Bazaar" (poem); Untitled ("Hatrack!");
     Untitled ("By old Abe Goldstein’s . . .") (poem); "Bastards All!"; "Songs of Bastards"; Untitled ("A beggar, singing without . . .");
     "The Fashion of the Cheese."  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early to mid-1929, Salaam: / Life is a yellow mist among the stars . . .
     Contains "To a Roman Woman" (poem) and "Ivory in the Night" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1929, Salaam: / The iron harp that Adam christened life . . .
     Contains Untitled ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life") (poem); "To the Contented" (poem);
     "High Blue Halls" (poem); and  "An American Epic" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1929, Salaam: / I received an announcement from Chicago . . .
     Contains "Black Seas" (poem). 

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1929, Salaam: / The main reason I’m writing this letter is . . .
     Contains "Irony".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late December 1929, Well: / Here I am doing business at the old stand . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. before 1930; probably late 1928, late 1929, Salaam: / As my dear public . . .
     Contains Untitled ("As my dear public remembers . . .").



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