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<p><em>The following is an excerpt from the book </em>Writings in the United Amateur<em> by H.P. Lovecraft.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>ITS OBJECT</strong></p>
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<pre style="margin: 0 0 0 60px; font-family: sans-serif;">The desire to write for publication is one which inheres strongly in every human breast. From the
proficient college graduate, storming the gates of the high-grade literary magazines, to the raw schoolboy,
vainly endeavoring to place his first crude compositions in the local newspapers, the whole intelligent
public are today seeking expression through the printed page, and yearning to behold their thoughts and
ideals permanently crystallized in the magic medium of type. But while a few persons of exceptional talent
manage eventually to gain a foothold in the professional world of letters rising to celebrity through the
wide diffusion of their art, ideals, or opinions; the vast majority, unless aided in their education by certain
especial advantages, are doomed to confine their expression to the necessarily restricted sphere of
ordinary conversation. To supply these especial educational advantages which may enable the general
public to achieve the distinction of print, and which may prevent the talented but unknown author from
remaining forever in obscurity, has arisen that largest and foremost of societies for literary education <strong>The
United Amateur Press Association.</strong>
<strong>ITS ORIGIN</strong>
Amateur journalism, or the composition and circulation of small, privately printed magazines, is an
instructive diversion which has existed in the United States for over half a century. In the decade of
1866-1876 this practice first became an organized institution; a short-lived society of amateur journalists,
including the now famous publisher, Charles Scribner, having existed from 1869 to 1874. In 1876 a more
lasting society was formed, which exists to this day as an exponent of light dilettantism. Not until 1895,
however, was amateur journalism established as a serious branch of educational endeavour. On
September 2nd of that year, Mr. William H. Greenfield, a gifted professional author, of Philadelphia,
founded <strong>The United Amateur Press Association</strong>, which has grown to be the leader of its kind, and the
representative of amateur journalism in its best phases throughout the English-speaking world.
<strong>ITS NATURE</strong>
In many respects the word "amateur" fails to do full credit to amateur journalism and the association
which best represents it. To some minds the term conveys an idea of crudity and immaturity, yet the
<strong>United</strong> can boast of members and publications whose polish and scholarship are well-nigh impeccable. In
considering the adjective "amateur" as applied to the press association, we must adhere to the more basic
interpretation, regarding the word as indicating the non-mercenary nature of the membership. Our
amateurs write purely for love of their art, without the stultifying influence of commercialism. Many of
them are prominent professional authors in the outside world, but their professionalism never creeps into
their association work. The atmosphere is wholly fraternal, and courtesy takes the place of currency.
<strong>ITS PROVINCE SUMMARIZED</strong>
<strong>If you are</strong> a student of elementary English desirous of attaining literary polish in an enjoyable manner,
<strong>If you are</strong> an ordinary citizen, burning with the ambition to become an author,
<strong>If you are</strong> a solitary individual wishing for a better chance to express yourself,
<strong>If you own</strong> a printing-press and would like to learn how to issue a high-grade paper,
<strong>If you are</strong> a mature person eager to make up for a youthful lack of culture,
<strong>If you are</strong> a professor or teacher seeking a new method of interesting your English class, or
<strong>If you are</strong> an author or person of ripe scholarship, anxious to aid your cruder brothers on their way, then
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE UNITED AMATEUR PRESS
ASSOCIATION.</pre>
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<p style="text-align: right;">H. P. LOVECRAFT<br />Vice-President.</p>
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