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<div><b><i>Amateur Correspondent</i> </b>was a science fiction and fantasy fanzine edited by Corwin F. Stickney.<b><br></b><br>Three issues of the <b><i>Amateur Correspondent</i></b> were published in 1937 in Belleville, New Jersey. It had evolved from the fanzine <i><b>Science-Fantasy Correspondent</b></i> (three issues, 1936-1937), edited by Willis Conover, who ceased publishing after the death of H. P. Lovecraft, with whom he has been corresponding. He gave the material he had collected for his fanzine to Stickney for <b><i>Amateur Correspondent</i></b>, including the portrait of Lovecraft he had commissioned from artist Virgil Finlay. This famous portrait of Lovecraft depicts the author as an eighteenth-century bewigged gentleman, while behind Lovecraft swarm the horrors of his imagination.<br><br>The first issue was published in May-June 1937, with the volume and issue numbering continued from the last issue of<b> <i>Science-Fantasy Correspondent</i></b>. Contributors included Willis Conover, Robert F. Ennis, Jack E. Fry, H. P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffman Price, and John C. Sidenius.<br><br>This issue features the first publication of the essay, "Notes On Writing Weird Fiction", by H. P. Lovecraft, and an essay on Lovecraft by Price ("The Sage Of College Street"). Oddly, it also included a section on hobbies with two articles on stamp collecting.  <b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>In 1977, a facsimile reprint of the issue was published by Necronomicon Press in a limited edition of 525 copies. <b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>CONTENTS:</b></div><div><b>Amateur Correspondent</b> [v2 #1, May-June 1937] (10¢, 30pp, 5¼" x 8¼" e/s, cover portrait of H. P. Lovecraft by Virgil Finlay)</div>4 · Metamorphosis · Corwin F. Stickney · ed<br>6 · The Sage Of College Street [H.P. Lovecraft] · E. Hoffmann Price · bg<br>7 · Notes On Writing Weird Fiction · H. P. Lovecraft · ar<br>10 · The Jest Of Tianne · Robert F. Ennis · ss<br><div>15 · The Spirits Mourn · Willis Conover, Jr. · pm</div><div>DEPARTMENTS<br></div><div>16 Hit 'N' Run · lc</div><div>23 Odds And Ends · lc<br></div><div>HOBBYANA<br></div><div>24  · First Day Covers ·  John C. Sidenius · ar</div><div>26  · Those Stamps And Coins ·  Jack E. Fry · ar</div></div>
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