Havelock Ellis to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1891

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Title: Havelock Ellis to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1891
Date: February 3, 1891
Creator(s): Havelock Ellis
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02037
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Cite this page: Ellis, Havelock. "Havelock Ellis to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc.02037.002_large.jpg see | notes | Feb. 16 '91 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.

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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]