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Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 10 June 1886

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Thanks for your handsome little book "King Arthur"2 wh' has just reach'd me—In health &c. I remain as of late—

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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]
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