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    <unittitle>Havelock Ellis letters</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78087633" source="naf">Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939</persname>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1894/1950" type="inclusive">1894-1950</unitdate>
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<p>Cataloged.</p>  </arrangement>
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<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>Letters written to Havelock Ellis, including several drafts of his replies, and a few letters to his executrix, Mrs. Françoise Lafitte-Cyon. Nearly all of the letters relate to to Ellis' writings and their influence, as well as the work of his correspondents in the fields of sex studies, pornography, birth control, and pacifism. Correspondents include Henri Barbusse, André Breton, Elie Faure, Robert J. Gibbings, Julian Huxley, Desmond MacCarthy, Bronislaw Malinowski, Naomi Mitchison, John Middleton Murray, Henry S. Salt, and Marie Stopes.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Havelock Ellis letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--09484F. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1976. Accession number--M-76.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_573a36609eee07a485d94c96d55227dd">
    <head>Biographical Note</head>
<p>Havelock Ellis was a British psychologist, sexologist, and physician. His 1987 book <title render="italic">Sexual Inversion</title> is one of the major early works on homosexuality.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Accruals</head>
<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120549" source="lcsh">Sex</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105008" source="lcsh">Pornography</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014367" source="lcsh">Birth control</subject>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043782" source="lcsh">English literature -- 19th century</subject>
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    <persname source="lcsh">Lafitte-Cyon, Françoise</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50021122" source="naf">Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935</persname>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50016247" source="naf">Salt, Henry S., 1851-1939</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50047340" source="naf">Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958</persname>
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