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Whitman's 'Ellen Eyre'

Hollis, C. Carroll. "Whitman's 'Ellen Eyre'." Walt Whitman Newsletter 2, (1956): 24-26.
Type
journal
Genre
essay
Abstract

Drawing upon information found in a Whitman notebook in the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress, Hollis presents evidence to suggest that the real name of the mysterious Ellen Eyre, a woman who sent Whitman a love letter at Pfaff's, was Ellen Grey.

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