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In 2014, a hitherto unknown and unpublished cache of thirty-six letters from
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Lovecraft. Lovecraft helped Bishop revise her stories and they corresponded frequently. Bishop would later remarry to Dauthard William Bishop, Sr, with whom she would live in Kansas City. While there she took an active role in the
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