If there is any way to get permission from the estates to post your correspondence - no matter how mundane or quotidian - with Arneson and Gygax, please do so. Some of Lovecraft's most dull and irrelevant letters contain gems, including a party invitation he wrote to James Morton. Instead of just inviting him over on the following Wednesday, he roleplayed the entire thing as a diplomatic royal visit. In another very mundane letter to an unknown, he dashes off a note that casually mentions the date and weather and his mood. This corresponds to another letter written the same day expressing his process for writing "He."
From a historical preservation sense, you never know how a dull bit of correspondence can make connections to greater events.
In the case of Arneson, I no longer have the correspondence – it was via email and long since gone. In the case of Gygax, I still retain parts of it (even though it is also email) but I'm not sure it'd be all that interesting.
If there is any way to get permission from the estates to post your correspondence - no matter how mundane or quotidian - with Arneson and Gygax, please do so. Some of Lovecraft's most dull and irrelevant letters contain gems, including a party invitation he wrote to James Morton. Instead of just inviting him over on the following Wednesday, he roleplayed the entire thing as a diplomatic royal visit. In another very mundane letter to an unknown, he dashes off a note that casually mentions the date and weather and his mood. This corresponds to another letter written the same day expressing his process for writing "He."
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In the case of Arneson, I no longer have the correspondence – it was via email and long since gone. In the case of Gygax, I still retain parts of it (even though it is also email) but I'm not sure it'd be all that interesting.
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