Thought you'd enjoy this little anecdote of the married couple (Howard and Sonia)out to dinner and movie.
Midnight, April 12/13, 1926 [From S. T. Joshi et. al. , H. P. Lovecraft: Letters From New York]
"At 5 PM we adjourned ... for dinner ... mine was grapefruit, soup, spaghetti, beef with ptato pancakes, sweet potato, & onions, cofffee, & spumoni. ... {and traveled to] Flatbush, the only undecayed spot in ... Brooklyn ...
"Arriving there whilst the evening was still young, we had ice cream ... (or rather I had ice cream whilst SH had two coca-colas.) & attended the ... theater ... the film was ... Stella Maris in the reissued form & aroused in my mind an interesting reminisce. I attended the old issue of this film in January 1918 ... but was forced to leave before it was half over because of a disgestive attack - my stomach was not then reliable as it is now. In that old film Mary Pickford was the star ..."
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HPL's nutrition consisted of some high calorie stuff. He seemed to love ice cream !
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