Thanks very much for the last 2 RQ. On reading the first part of Dr. But I decided to wait until I'd read the first three before sending in my comments. We should all be grateful for Mullen's lists and for your printing of It.
Future articles on ERB will undoubtedly rely heavily on this handy reference. And I notice that Leslie A. Fiedler has read the listing Mullen did In a previous issue can't lay my hands on it just now to give title and date of publication.
Fiedler referred to the scholar who did it, without naming him, in his recent article on Tarzan in the Now York Times Book Review section I have some hopes that the final article by Mullen will do more than list ERB's and Haggard's faults.
I hope he isn't one of those critics who think it's the critic's function to ignore a writer's virtues. Such critics are, figuratively, and perhaps literally, half-assed. I rather think, though, that Mullen finds no merit whatever in these two authors, and so we will not learn from him that Jung, Henry Miller, and others have paid tribute to the abidingness of Haggard as a shower-forth of immortal archetypes.
But I may be wrong. Let's hope so. Fiedler mentioned me in the article as the world's greatest authority on Burroughs. If he'd said I was the greatest authority on Tarzan, he'd have been right. But I disclaim and deny any statement that I am the world's greatest authority on Burroughs. Also, when I say that I know more of Tarzan than anybody else, I must qualify even that statement. Lord Greystoke himself, and his family and a few close friends, know more about him than I do. However, some of the truth about him was revealed in my biography of Greystoke.
