[j. d. worthington]

On the subject of why Sonia and HPL separated... no, that (if one is to believe any of the accounts from either of them or of friends) had nothing to do with it, though in later years she did complain about some of those statements. After all, after they were separated, Sonia kept inviting him to stay when he would be in the New York area at a time when she was, and also had him do revision work on a travelogue she'd written, as well as sending him copious letters and postcards on her trip to Europe (and buying him a copy of Dr. Johnson's beer stein). But each of them was rather set in their ways, and then the financial difficulties that caused Sonia to have to move to the midwest for employment, which HPL could not contemplate without complete revulsion, added to his own increasing psychological problems because of nearly two years' worth of fruitless job searching in New York.... Altogether, a pile of different things landed on them from very early on, and just proved too much. Whether they would have made it or not otherwise... who knows? But some who knew them thought it was possible; and that there was genuine affection there I see no reason to doubt.