The Robert E. Howard materials contained in the Newsletters are high resolution scans of his typescripts or holographic manuscripts unless otherwise noted. The Newsletter is only available to “Friends of REH” and “Legacy Circle” members.
Volume 2
#1, Spring 2008; all volume 2 Newsletters prepared for publication by Rob Roehm.
Contents: Photo of REH in boxing stance; “Letter from the Board,” by Bill Cavalier; “The Cairn on the Headland” Draft A, introduction by Rob Roehm; “News and Events”; “Jeffries Versus Dempsey”; “Plains of Gilban,” verse; “Was I There?,” verse.
#2, Summer 2008
Contents: Photo of REH drinking beer; “Letter from the Board,” by Rob Roehm; “The Dwellers Under the Tombs” Draft A; “News and Events”; “Hyborian Map,” drawing; Letter: REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, Sept. 7, 1924; double ending to “The Dead Remember”
#3, Autumn 2008
Contents: Old photos of Cross Plains; “Letter from the Board,” by Rob Roehm; “The Black Stone” early draft; “Howard Days 2008,” by Bill Cavalier; Untitled Fragment (“the honor of Beffum.”), Glenn Lord transcription; Letter: Dr. I.M. Howard to H.P. Lovecraft, October 30, 1936; “And So I Sang,” verse.
#4, Winter 2008 — Coming Soon.
Volume 1 [Out of Print]
#1, Spring 2007, prepared for publication by Dennis McHaney.
Contents: Photo of REH in Lincoln, New Mexico; “Letter from the President,” by Rusty Burke; “Another ‘Rattle of Bones’,” introduced by Patrice Louinet; “Rattle of Bones” draft (typescript with transcription).
#2, Summer 2007 (mislabeled “Fall”), prepared for publication by Damon Sasser.
Contents: Photo of REH shadow boxing; “Letter from the Secretary” by Paul Herman; Untitled Story (“The Seeker thrust . . .”), transcription only; Untitled Synopsis (“The Slugger’s Game”); Untitled Synopsis (“A Knight of the Round Table”); Untitled Synopsis (“General Ironfist”); Untitled Synopsis (“Sluggers on the Beach”); Untitled Synopsis (“Dark Shanghai”); Untitled Synopsis (“The Silver Heel”); Note for “Nekht Semerkeht” (“Hernando de Guzman . . .”); “A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman,” transcription only; Untitled Poem (“Fill up my goblet”), transcription only; “The Builders” (3) verse, transcription only; Untitled Poem (“Brazen thewed giant . . .”) transcription only; Drawings (“Theme-real experience? Imaginary?”); Page 15 of “Nekht Semerkeht,” typescript.
#3, Fall 2007, prepared for publication by Paul Herman.
Contents: Photos of REH’s writing table; “Letter from the Secretary,” by Paul Herman; “The Search for the Desk of Robert E. Howard,” by Paul Herman; “While Smoke Rolled,” Pike Bearfield draft; Pg 1 of “Guns of the Mountains”
#4, Winter 2007, prepared for publication by Paul Herman.
Contents: Photo of REH as a child; “Letter from the Secretary,” by Paul Herman; “Pigeons from Hell” early draft; Sample from REH Poetry Index, by Barbara Barrett; List of Middle and Near Eastern Titles; Untitled Synopsis (“Guardian of the Idol”).
All excess copies of Volume 1 were destroyed at the end of 2007.
