Chester Alan Arthur, III: March 21, 1901-April 28, 1972

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Introduction

Wrote under pseudonym "Gavin Arthur."

Bibliography

Primary Souces

Arthur, C. A., to Edward Carpenter, September 8, 1923. Manuscript 271/187, Sheffield City Archives, Sheffield, England. Cited in Katz, Love Stories, page 388.

Arthur, C. A., to his mother, May 13, 1924. Cited in Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter, page 421 and note 53, page 516.

Arthur, C. A., to Edward Carpenter, May 14, 1924. Manuscript 396/397. Sheffield City Archives, Sheffield, England. Cited in Katz, Love Stories, page 388.

Arthur, Gavin. The Circle of Sex. New York: University Books, 1966.

Arthur, Gavin. Manuscript written in 1967 and given to Allen Ginsberg. Published in Gay Sunshine, 1978, and reprinted in Winston Leyland, ed., Gay Roots, in 1991.

Leyland, Winston, ed. "Allen Ginsberg," in Gay Sunshine Interviews, Vol1. (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1978).

Leyland, Winston, ed. "Gavin Arthur: The Gay Succession," in Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1991).

Secondary Sources

Katz, Jonathan Ned. Chapter 24, "A Much More Intimate Communion," in Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), pages 321-329; 386-88.

Rowbotham, Sheila. Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (London and Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2008). pages 418, 420, 421, 435, 448,

Chronology

1923: Arthur first visits Carpenter.

1924: Arthur's second visit to Carpenter.