IS #6
Tom Collins
Year :
September 1972  
Book No. : None  
Edition : 1st
Format : Fanzine
Pages : 84 pages
Cover art : Richard Corten
Illustrations : Ariel Parkinson, Mark Gelotte,  Mike Gilbert, Terry Jeeves, John Swanson, Stephen Fabian, Richard Corten, & Dan Ventry
IS #6  
Other editions: None
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Contents
"A Warning" (partial verse, "You have built a world of paper and wood") (poem)
To August Derleth, ca. December (29?) 1932 ("I read your recent letter with the greatest interest . . .")
To August Derleth, ca. February 1933 ("After so long a time, I’m getting around to answering . . .")
To August Derleth, ca. March 1933 ("I should have told you that I meant to keep . . .")
To August Derleth, ca. October 1933 ("Thanks very much for the opportunity of reading . . .")
To August Derleth, ca. November 1933 ("I enjoyed reading your ‘Hawk on the Blue’ very much . . .")
To August Derleth, ca. December 1933 ("I think Scribner’s was nuts to turn down ‘Hawk on . . .")
To August Derleth, December 11, 1934 ("I recently found your letter of October 18 in my file . . .")
To August Derleth, July 4, 1935 ("Thanks very much for the article, ‘Afternoon in June.’")
To August Derleth, May 9, 1936 ("I am indeed sorry to learn of the deaths . . .")

Non-REH Contents
"Editorial" by Tom Collins
"The Dalton Effect" by Isaac Asimov
"Liftoff" by Poul Anderson
"The Nit-Picker's Digest: Cosmology and Ringworld" by Flieg Hollander and Jay Freeman
"Tiptoeing Through Tulane" by Grant Carrington
"Jason, Annabella, and Harold Travel into the Future" by Thomas Parkinson
"Doctor Pleasuregain Explains" by Thomas Parkinson
"Memories of August" by Carl Jacobi
"Lovecraft annd the Stars" by E. Hoffmann Price
"A Clairvoyant Look at Drugs" by Allan Y. Cohen & Francis Sakoian
"The Dangers of Wandering Into Strange Beds While Drunk" by John Harlee
"Me and the White Rabbit" by Colin Salamander
"A Family Fable" by Carl Helbing
"Letters to Derleth from Robert E. Howard"
"Yankee Doodle" by Ewan MacColl

Notes
First Appearance of all of the letters except for the letters dated December 1933 and May 9, 1936.
First complete appearance of the December 1933 letter.
A Selection of Letters From the August Derleth Papers owned by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
and now published through Howard's agent, Glenn Lord.

The poem is in the May 9, 1936 letter.