Samuel Loveman in the New York Times

Samuel Loveman in the New York Times. Fragments found online.
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Mr Sterling and Minor Poets
Published 4 June 1911

The New York Times Review of Books

It seems a singular anomaly that a poet of Mr. George Sterling's rank and responsibility should be referred to as a minor poet, and still more so that Mr. William Watson should be mentioned in the same connection. Mr. Sterling is not only a great poet, but inconceivably the greatest living, in either England or America. The sense of his art as a divine mission –

Remiss the ministry they bear
Who serve her with divided heart;
She stands reluctant to impart
Her strength to purpose, end, or share –

- stamps the high seriousness of one whom Shelley, Poe, and even Keats would have been the first to welcome. Let us honor the living as well as the dead.

Samuel Loveman.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 20.

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Latest Books: Published NYT 22 October 1922
"History and Biography"

Twenty-One Letters of Ambrose Bierce. By Samuel Loveman. 12 mo. Cleveland, George Kirk.

A series of unpublished letters addressed to Robert Loveman of Dalton, Ca., commencing with Oct. 17, 1908 and endng with Sept. 10, 1913.

{Note: Ambrose Bierce disappeared into Mexico after one last letter was sent on December 26, 1913 – CP}

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Hart Crane
Samuel Loveman

August 10, 1969, Sunday

Section: Book Review, Page BR22, 95 words

Though I am not given credit for having done so, I took the photograph of Hart Crane illustrating Helen Vendler's admirable front-cover review of John Unterecker's "Voyager," in your July 20 issue.
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TV: Making the Rounds With a Poet's Biographer; Cannel 13 Eavesdrops on Search for Crane 90-Minute Show Mixes Sounds and Sights
By JACK GOULD

September 23, 1966, Friday

Page 75, 382 words

AN unusual union of the literary and television worlds was demonstrated by National Educational Television last night on Channel 13. Prof. John Unterecker, a member of the English department in Columbia University's Graduate Faculties, is preparing a biography on Hart Crane, the poet, and N.E.T. hit upon the happy notion of having camera crews accompany him on his interviews. … Among those with whom Professor Unterecker talked were Malcolm Cowley, Samuel 'Loveman, ...

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Deaths; Cards of Thanks

October 10, 1937, Sunday

Section: GENERAL NEWS, LOST AND FOUND, PUBLIC NOTICES, SHIPPING AND MAILS, EDUCATION, OBITUARIES, WILLS, ESTATES, ARMY ORDERS, Page 29, 3985 words

…after a lingering Illness, Louis, Beloved husband of Marie (nee Burger) and devoted father of Joe, Sam, Malvani Loveman, Ben and Harry …

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SAMUEL LOVEMAN, 89, A POET,BOOK DEALER

May 18, 1976, Tuesday

Page 29, 155 words

Samuel Loveman, a retired book dealer and poet who was a youthfu protege of the writer Ambrose Bierce and a lifelong friend of the poet Hart Crane, died Friday in the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged. He was 89 years old.

George W Kirk, Obituary NYT (1962)

GEORGE KIRK, 63, SOLD BOOKS HERE; Owner of Chelsea Shop in 'Village' 1927-39 Is Dead

March 23, 1962, Friday

Page 33, 265 words

PELHAM, N.Y., March 22-- George Willard Kirk of 1 Hillside Avenue, former owner of the Chelsea Bookshop on West Eighth Street, New York, and in recent years an electronics mechanic, died today of cancer at Manhattan General Hospital in New York. He was 63 years old. ...

Lovecraft's Non-Influences

Ol' Ech Pi El was an eclectic man. He lived in an incredibly dynamic age - F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, T S Elliot, e e cummings, and more. He lived at the dawn of the Jazz Age and yet never commented in his stories on Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Irving Berlin, or George Gershwin. The Lindbergh Kidnapping, Sacco and Venzetti, and more all were of his era, and they were non-events to his antiquarian minds.

Yet, an obscure house, quirky painting, musty book at the back of the book stall, or out of the way newspaper clipping could send him into a tizzy for years until a story emerged.

Only after the fact can we find the influences that churned through HPL's mind. His friends and colleagues never knew what might emerge next. Frank Belknap Long wondered why one thig or another might have captivated his attention.

Lovecraft could recite Roman and Egyptian lore backwards and forwards, quote long passages from scripture or horror books, and yet he might see a really odd thing (like witch-like women in a park) and ignore them for the truly obscure (touching the stone walls of an Egyptian display in a museum) or mundane such as George Kirk's residence (Cool Air) !

Here's to the unfathomable brain of Mr. Lovecraft !

Lovecraft and Houdini: Testimony of George Kirk

In George Kirk's letter * of 18 October 1926 we read, "HPL wrote lately. Is doing work for Houdini. Sent me the MS of a story about my 14th St. house."

Those brief words are set in context by S T Joshi's footnotes. He states that the "work" was the Cancer of Supersitition (with CM Eddy) manuscript that was preempted by Houdini's death. Bess did not want to continue the work.

* ed. Mira Kirk Hart & S T Joshhi, Lovecraft's New York Circle: The Kalem Club, 1924-1927. p.110. The story (MS) was Cool Air which was written about February 1926.