Portrait of Havelock Ellis. Photographer: Coster, Howard
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Head-and-shoulders portrait, looking to the left. A note in Ellis' hand on the reverse reads, 'Taken by Howard Coster I think in 1937.' A series of portraits of Ellis in the National Portrait Gallery was taken by Coster in 1934, so this photograph may be earlier than Ellis' recollection, or he m...
Hawkes Point, Nr. Carbis Bay. Photographer: Unknown
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View from the railway line, looking down onto the headland of Hawkes Point, with Ellis' studio visible on the left. A pencilled note on the reverse in Ellis' hand reads: 'This is distant view of the studio shed (by an old mine shaft) where much of my write done (abt. 1893-1903). My old studio (u...
Moor Cottage, Carbis Bay, Cornwall. Photographer: Unknown
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General view of the cottage, with pencilled note on reverse: 'On left, shelter my wife had made for me, in which last volume of Studies ['Studies in the psychology of sex'] was completed 1909.' Reproduced in Isaac Goldberg, 'Havelock Ellis. A biographical and critical survey' (1928), facing p. 1...
Portrait of Havelock Ellis in his sun-hut. Photographer: Unknown
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Head-and-shoulders profile portrait. With notes (in two hands) on reverse: 'H. at 70? or so, reproduced on jacket of a book, but not otherwise' and 'in his sun-hut looks lovely as on jacket of 'My confessional' (American edition).
Snapshot portrait of Havelock Ellis, standing in a garden. Photographer: Unknown
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Half-length portrait, standing in profile. With note on reverse reading: 'Well in his 70s, perhaps 75 or 6. Never reproduced. He was already ill, though not too badly yet.