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Title: Havelock Ellis to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1891
Date: February 3, 1891
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02037
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: The annotation, "see | notes | Feb. 16 '91," is in the hand of Horace Traubel.
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9 St. Mary's Terrace,
Paddington, London.1
3 Feb/91.
I am sending you a copy of my New Spirit which contains an essay that may interest you. It is a feeble attempt to express the help & delight that your work has given me.
With all affectionate greetings,
Havelock Ellis.
Correspondent:
Henry Havelock Ellis
(1859–1939) was an English physician and sexologist. He co-wrote Sexual Inversion (published in German 1896; English
translation in 1897) with Whitman correspondent John Addington Symonds. His book
The New Spirit, with a chapter on Whitman, appeared
in 1890.
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: Walt Whitman, | 328 Mickle St. | Camden. | New Jersey | U.S.A. It is postmarked: Paddington.W | [illegible] 12 | FE 3 | 91; New York | Feb | 14; Paid | B | All; Camden, [illegible] | Feb | 16 | 7 AM | [illegible]. [back]