REH/Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923: "Think of all the white races of the world arrayed against all the dark races! That would be a war worth seeing. A titanic struggle with color against color... Now a color war I would enter glady with. Remember my opinion of wars in general but a race-war is different. I don't even consider the Chinese of the same race as we." (Unpublished)
REH/Harold Preece, 20 Oct 1928: "The King of Kings" gripped me. I thought it was powerful, though I think Joseph Schildrkraut ran away with the picture as Judas. And William Boyd that fellow is the most human actor in the world. H. B. Warner lacked fire of course, but I don’t know who else could have done even as good as he did. Damn the Jews anyway." (expurgated in published version)
REH/HP, Mar 1929: "You cant justify the existence of the Hebrew race to me. [...] They are swine as far as I am concerned; a lot of dirty scuts that didnt have the nerve to come to America until the Irish had killed out the Indians and built the railroads. Then they came over and now they sit up on their bulbous rumps and blatantly announce that they own the damned country. Maybe they do; they'll never own Ireland. (expurgated)
REH/HP, 24 Mar 1930: "I heard the travesty of Miami the other night. I was disgusted. An English champion quits to a lousy Lithuanian and a Wop referee disqualifies him. If the staunch old Anglo-Saxon breed has reached such a pitch, what is the world to look to? But I hear the Englishman has Jewish blood in him, which would explain it. There was a time when Englishmen ruled the ring game." (expurgared)
REH/Howard Phillips Lovecraft, ca. Dec 1930: "I agree with you in doubting that the seeds of cultural development are present in the negroid race as a whole. They can ape and copy but that they could build a civilization of their own, I doubt. Doubtless you are right in your
theory that the easy life of the tropics contributed greatly to the negro's lack of progress." (expurgated from the published version)
REH/TCS, ca. June 1930: "We joined the club. Heh heh heh! I'm a member of the Business Men's Athletic Club of San Antonio. Whee! Well, when I looked around at the wops, spicks, Chinees and niggers who were among those of my club brothers it gave me a big laugh."
REH/HPL, ca. Sep 1930: "Negroes are an interesting study."
REH/HPL, ca. Sep 1930: "The death rate [of Mexicans] is enormous, the birth rate even more enormous. They live like rats and breed like flies."
REH/HPL, ca. Oct 1930: "Of course, many of the older families, both American and German, have held themselves apart from the rabble and intermarried with their own race and with each other, but the later arrivals from Europe tend to mix and mingle without rhyme or reason." (expurgated)
REH/HPL, ca. Oct 1930: "the majority of our negro slaves were of a comparatively low order of being. Living in the swamps and jungles they could not have been otherwise." (expurgated)
REH/HPL, ca. Oct 1930: (after a Mexican has been murdered): "The Cattlemen's Association sent out a detective - just why so much trouble was taken about a Mexican I cannot understand."
REH/HPL, ca. Dec 1930: "I imagine the combination you mention � Semitic nose, Mongol eyes, Aryan hair, etc., produces a weird effect, even more so than the red headed niggers you occasionally see in the South. The most inhuman hybrid I ever saw was ... in New Orleans. He - or it! � was as black as any negro I ever saw, but had the slant eyes and broad
features of a Chinaman." (expurgated)
REH/HPL, ca. Jan 1931: "That Negroid-Jew you speak of must have been a grotesque and amusing spectacle." (Unp.)
REH/HPL, ca. Feb 1931: "Altogether, Mexican tastes as a whole appeal to me, though I cannot say that the Mexicans themselves do." (Unp.)
REH/HPL, ca. Feb 1931: "In New Orleans all this noise and argument isn't confined to the Semites alone. I used to pass the Old French Market and near the Italian women screeching and squabbling over pennies, and see them grabbing and snatching in shameless greed until I was sick and ashamed of the whole human race." (Unp.)
REH/HPL, ca. Feb 1931: "I feel a deep pity for that people [the Boskop] - living in peace and friendliness - an unwarlike and pastoral race -and suddenly confronted by a horde of black slayers as rude and merciless as they were strong. It must have been a slaughter rather than
a war, and it's a damned pity that the Boskop people didn't have some Aryan traits to stiffen their spines and train their hands in fighting. I hate to think of white people being wiped out and enslaved by niggers." (unpublished)
REH/HPL, ca. June 1931: "It's a dirty shame that the Polacks are selling those fine old stone walls and replacing them with wire fences. Another proof that traditions mean nothing to these aliens, who bring their own traditions with them and callously trample on those of the land they pollute by their presence."
REH/HPL, ca. Dec 1931: "Whitehead's information about the negroid strain in the modern Danes struck me as rather ludicrous. That's a mating of Poles with a vengeance! The Scandinavian and the nigger, the extremes of development." (unpublished)
REH/HPL, ca Jan 1932: "I hardly think I'd feel any embarassment at social contact with such persons as you mentioned [inhabitant of the West Indies] - the cultured aristocratic ones, of course. Though if any should seek to pay court to a sister or daughter, I'm afraid i'd resort
to primitive Nordic tactics, regardless of the suitor's quarterings. Somehow this reminds me of the breeding of negro girls for concubines which was once practised in New Orleans . .. Their owners had an eye to posterity and mated them with as much care as they might have given to
the breeding of their race horses... After a few generations such girls, the vestige of negroid blood in their veins scarcely discernable, carefully raised, well taught in the arts of love, knowing no will save that of their masters, made mistresses and slaves not excelled by any
Eastern seraglio. They brought fancy prices, and they were worth it." (unpublished)
REH/HPL, ca Apr 1932: "Just now my interest in the Far East is centered on that trial in Honolulu, which makes me ashamed of my own race. How a white man can stand up in court and prosecute a white woman, before the scum of the Orient, with Orientals in the jury, is more than I can understand."
REH/HPL, ca May 1932: "That Hawaii business is a rotten reek in the nostrils of decent men... I don't know whether an Oriental smells any different than a nigger when he's roasting, but I'm willing to bet the aroma of scorching hide would have the same chastening effect on his surviving tribesmen... As for the attorney, for any white man who is low enough to crucify an outraged child of his own color before a mongrel swarm, a roll down a hill in a barrel full of safety-razor blades is too good for him." (unpublished)
REH/HPL, ca. Aug 1932: "My Socialist friend spoke bitterly of the fickleness of the Mexicans - whose ignorance is so abysmal it's almost impossible for a white man to comprehend it." (unpublished)
REH/HPL, ca. Sep 1932: "The Old French Market in New Orleans is... an old landmark that seems to me should be preserved. It smelled like hell - what with the fish, lobster, wops etc."
REH/HPL, ca. Oct 1932: "You know a coyote nor a buzzard never will touch a Mexican's carcass - they can't stand the pepper he ate in his life-time."
REH/HPL, ca Jul 1935: "I’ll admit it seemed strange to me to see Mexicans being treated on the same footing as white people. You can certainly tell the difference in the bearing of Mexicans, Indians, negroes and other dark races the instant you cross the Texas line.
Texas, whatever its virtues or faults, is a white man’s state, and that fact is reflected in the manner of the non-white races. They know their place. [..] I was pretty mad already, for one thing because I don’t like to see a nigger displaying insolence toward a white man..."
(unpublished)
