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TO SMITH, TEVIS CLYDE: 1930 - 1933 (51)

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1930, Many thanks for the letter you wrote Farnsworth . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1930, Well, here is the letter.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1930, Salaam, Fear Ohghruagach: / Life is a cynical, romantic pig . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Life is a cynical, romantic pig") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1930, Well, Fear Finn, tell Cuchullain the Dutchess . . .
     Contains "The Autumn of the World" (poem); "A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans" (poem); "Aw Come On and Fight" (poem); and "The Song of the Sage" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1930, Well, Fear Finn: / I trust you are in good healthel . . .
     Contains "Whispers" (poem). 

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early April 1930, Well, Fear Finn, you mention being in a lethargic . . .
     Contains "Ambition" (poem); "Whispers on the Nightwind" (poem); "The Gladiator and the Lady" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1930, Salaam: / Well, Fear Finn, I believe in days gone yore . . .
     Contains "The Mutiny of the Hellroarer" and "The Return of the Sea-Farer" (poem). 

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1930, Salaam: / Well, Fear Finn, I hope this letter finds you o.k. . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1930, Well, Fear Finn, I was in Brownwood yesterday . . .
     Contains "A Stirring of Green Leaves" (poem); "The Rhyme of the Viking Path" (poem); and "A Marching Song of Connacht" (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1930, Well, Fear Finn: / The pictures came at last and here they are.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1930, Salaam, Fear Finn: / Then Stein the peddler . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Then Stein the peddler . . .") (poem) and "A Ballad of Beer" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1930, Salaam, Fear Finn: / Well, me bauld buccaneer . . .
     Contains "Lives and Crimes of Notable Artists".  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1930, I haven’t heard from our story, . . .
     Contains "Voyages with Villains".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1930, Well, Fear Finn, me bauld braw Hieland bully . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early September 1930, Well, Fear Finn: / I hope you’ll sell the duelling story.
     Contains "Daughter of Evil" (poem).  

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. Nov 1930, Well, Fear Finn: / I read your article . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, probably ca. December 1930, I’m not surprized that Byrne . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. Dec 1930, Well, Fear Finn: / I don’t know when I’ll be able . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. Mid to Late-January 1931, Fear Finn: / I’ve delayed writing you, hoping I’d receive . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. Late-February 1931, after February 16, 1931 Well, Fear Finn: / You owe me a letter, but . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1931, Well, Fear Finn: / Congratulations on your history . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1931, Fear Finn: / I don’t have to tell you how sorry I am . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 14, 1931, Well, Fear Finn: / Heigho for sunny San Antonio.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 9, 1931, Fear Finn: / Have youse heard anything more . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. mid-May 1931, Well Fear Finn: / I got a letter from Bradford saying that . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, week of May 18, 1931, Fear Finn: / I should have answered your letter . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early June 1931, Fear Finn: / Thanks very much for the Frontier . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. August 1931, Fear Finn: / Well, I doubt if this missile will be very scintillant . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1931, Fear Finn: / Lizzen my children and you shall be told . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Lizzen my children and you shall be told") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1931, Fear Finn: / I’ve been waiting for a letter from you . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1931, Fear Finn: / The reason I haven’t written you sooner . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1931, Fear Finn: / I wrote Bradford a coarse rude letter . . .
     Contains "Who is Grandpa Theobold?" (poem) and Untitled ("Let me rest with the ages"). 

To Tevis Clyde Smith, November 1931, Fear Finn: / Here are the blasted verses.
     Contains "The Last Day" (poem) and "Moonlight on a Skull" (poem).
     Both poems were previously sold to WEIRD TALES, but were not published at the time of this letter.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1931, Fear Finn: / Have you heard anything from the Christopher?
     Contains Untitled ("Many fell at the grog-shop walls") (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. After mid-1931, Fear Finn: / I’m damned if I can think of anything . . .
     Contains "A Poet’s Skull" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early January 1932, Dear Clyde: / I only learned of your uncle’s death today.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1932, Fear Finn: / Well, how runs the world these days?

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1932, Fear Finn: / Sorry to hear you’ve been carved on again, . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1932, Fear Finnel: / When I wzs a kie in East Texas . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1932, Fear Finn: / I heard from that bone-crushing man-eater . . .
     Contains "A Weird Ballad" (poem) and "Little Brown Man of Nippon" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932, Fear Finn: / Just a bit of press-agenting . . .
     Hand-written, on stationary from the Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas.

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932, Fear Finn: / Well, here I am back at the old home town . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932, Fear Finn: / Thank you very much for going to all the trouble . . .
     Contains "The Toy Rattle Murder Case".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932, Fear Finn: / Lo, friend, I approach thee with a liver . . .
     Contains "John Brown" (poem); "Abe Lincoln" (poem); "John Kelley" (poem); "The Tom Thumb Moider Mystery"; and "Authorial Version of Duna" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. very late May 1932, Fear Finn: / Let us tool forth to Australia . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. August 1932, Fear Finn: / I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed a pome . . .
     Contains "Dreaming in Israel" (poem) and "Samson’s Broodings" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1932, Fear Finn: / You owe me a letter, you louse, he said . . .
     Contains "A Glass of Vodka" and "One Blood Stain" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1932, Fear Finn: / Well, I finally get around to answering . . .
     Contains "Lines to G.B. Shaw" (poem); "A Mick in Israel" (poem); "Musings" (2) (poem); and "Envoy" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. after mid-1932, Ahatou noyon, Fear Finn: / Thinking of nothing . . .
     Contains "The Werewolf Murder Case".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1933, Fear Finn: / I was in Brownwood yesterday . . .

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1933, Fear Finn: / The Galleon Press has just brought out . . .


TO SMITH, TEVIS CLYDE: Undated (6)

To Tevis Clyde Smith, Undated, Salaam / Again glancing over your last letter . . .
     Contains "Surrender" (2) (poem); "I Praise My Nativity" (poem); and "Dreaming" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, Undated, The Seeker thrust . . .
     Contains Untitled ("The Seeker thrust . . ."); "To a Certain Cultured Woman" (poem); "The Winds of the Sea" (2) (poem);
     "The Iron Harp" (a cycle of five poems, including "Out of the Deep"; "Babel"; "Laughter in the Gulf"; "Moon Shame";
     "A Crown for a King").

To Tevis Clyde Smith, Undated, Well, Fear Finn, I read your story . . .
     Contains "The Cuckoo’s Revenge" (poem); "The Madness of Cormac" (poem); and "A Challenge to Bast" (poem).

To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. before July 1925, “King Bahthur’s Court”
     Contains "King Bahthur’s Court".

To Tevis Clyde Smith, Undated, Salaam / Skulls against the Dawn
     Contains "Skulls Against the Dawn" (poem) and "Drummings on an Empty Skull" (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 SMITH, TEVIS CLYDE: Documents Enclosed with Letters (9)

"The Adventurer’s Mistress" (2) (poem)
     Contains "The Adventurer’s Mistress" (2) (poem).

I’ve done my part in writing it.
     Contains Untitled (“There were three lads . . .”) (poem).

Poem penned by Akbar Ali . . .
     Contains Untitled ("Match a toad with a far-winged hawk") (poem).

"Crusade" (poem)
     Contains "Crusade" (poem).  

"Sang the King of Midian" (poem)
     Contains "Sang the King of Midian" (poem).  

"Renunciation" (poem)
     Contains "Renunciation" (poem). 

"Thoughts of an Afghan on a raid"
     This is a cartoon.

"Relentless Reginald . . ."
     This is a cartoon.

Drawing of a strange cow.
     This is a cartoon.


TO SWANSON, CARL (3)

To Carl Swanson, ca. March 1932 I am sending you . . .

To Carl Swanson, ca. April 1932 I am interested in . . .

To Carl Swanson, ca. late May1932 I’m sorry you had . . .



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