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Title: Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 10 June 1886
Date: June 10, 1886
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03314
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.
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Camden New Jersey
U S America
June 10 '861—
Thanks for your handsome little book "King Arthur"2 wh' has just reach'd me—In health &c. I remain as of late—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Ernest Percival Rhys
(1859–1946) was a British author and editor; he founded the Everyman's
Library series of inexpensive reprintings of popular works. He included a volume
of Whitman's poems in the Canterbury Poets series and two volumes of Whitman's
prose in the Camelot series for Walter Scott publishers. For more information
about Rhys, see Joel Myerson, "Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859–1946)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: Ernest Rhys | 59 Cheyne Walk | London | S W | England. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | JUN | 10 | [illegible]30 PM | 1886 | N.J.; PHILADELPHIA | JUN | 10 | 1886 | [illegible] [back]
2. Rhys edited Malory's History of King Arthur and the Quest of the Holy Grail in 1886 for Walter Scott. [back]