Campaigner for homosexual equality.- Carpenter (Edward) 4 Autograph Letters signed, 1881-85; and 2 others related ephemera (6 pieces).

 

Campaigner for homosexual equality.- Carpenter (Edward, campaigner for homosexual equality and socialist writer, 1844-1929) 4 Autograph Letters signed to Mrs Casey, 20pp., 8vo, Bradbury near Sheffield, Milthorpe near Chesterfield & Brighton, 14th October 1881 - 16th January 1885, on a variety of subjects, commenting on their imminent move to the Riviera, "There are a tremendous lot of English in Nice", his brother-in-law, "Isn't he a type of the old soldier. We think him so like the White Knight in Alice in Wonderland", his adoption Ruskin's philosophy of manual labour, "I have given up lecturing and retired from the 'fierce light' which beats upon a platform into the grateful obscurity of a farmyard & to the companionship of fowls & pigs!, the death of his father and his family move from Brighton, asking after Rev Casey's "mortal arguments with Mr Teall" [Sir Jethro Justinian Harris Teall (1849-1924), geologist], his view of Democracy, "As to that word Democracy I do not consider that its meaning has been even approached as yet, except by the incomparable Walt [Whitman]", and socialism, "We are all becoming Socialists now - quite fashionable I assure you!", and meeting Walt Whitman, "did I tell you that I was in the States during June & July? I had a very pleasant time, visiting friends, on country farms chiefly, saw old Walt Whitman, & enjoyed the voyage both ways - going steerage!", folds; and 2 pieces of related ephemera (6 pieces).

*** "Saw old Walt Whitman."