Harris, Arthur

   (1895–1966)

   Amateur journalist in Wales and correspondent of HPL (1915–37). Harris, living in Llandudno, published one of the longest-running amateur journals, Interesting Items ,which ran from 1904 (as Llandudno’s Weekly) to 1956, each issue usually consisting only of four to eight small pages. Harris published HPL’s poems “1914” (March 1915), “The Crime of Crimes” (July 1915), and two sonnets of Fungi from Yuggoth. Harris published “The Crime of Crimes” as a pamphlet; it thereby became HPL’s first separate publication. Copies are exceptionally scarce: three are known to be in existence. HPL continued to correspond with Harris for the entirety of his life, although as early as 1918 his letters numbered no more than one or two a year.