Edna J. (Brittain) Smith

Edna J. (Brittain) Smith

March 29, 1935 - June 2, 2025

Her Letters to Robert E. Howard: Edna Mann

Among Robert E. Howard’s papers are several lists of addresses. One such list includes the entry: Miss Edna MannBagwell, Texas.—Collected Letters 3.483 Bagwell is a small, unincorporated community in Red River County, bordering Oklahoma. According to Howard scholars like Patrice Louinet, the Howard family had lived in Bagwell from ~1913-1915; it was in Bagwell that a young Howard would have attended school for the first time, when he was eight …