For sale, a Lovecraft postcard, a pictorial addendum to a letter, in which he mentions his river journey down the river at Silver Springs. It sounds like it was sent to Clark Ashton Smith.

“Later – June 9 [1934]. Young Ar E’ch-Bei has held this epistle up several days, wishing to [solicit?] one enclosure. Meanwhile the envelope of your drawings has come, and he is in ecstasies over them. He keeps them always within reach and takes them out to gaze at every few minutes — and has made copies of many of them as best he can. I hope you can fix him up regarding the mythological matters. He wants all the available data on Tsathoggua — have you still the bits from ‘The Mound’ that I sent you when casting up that tale in 1930?

I went yesterday to Silver Springs, where the bottom of a lake is riddled with picturesque views seen from a glass-bottomed boat. Also sailed 10 miles down a tropical river which looked very much like the Amazon or Congo. The scenes for the cinema of ‘Tarzan’ were made here. I must send you a folder of the place — one of the most distinctive and fascinating spots I have ever seen. Evr Yrs for the Eternal Infra-red Flame.”


My June 2020 Picture Postals: On Silver River considered the same trip, with pictures.