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manuscript page showing Beerbohm's neat handwriting in black ink. He has crossed out several words in large blobs of black ink. The page is numbered 2 in the top right corner

Item 62: Letter to Bohun Lynch (June 18, 1921)
pencil sketch of several small heads and a handwritten list of names
© The Estate of Sir Max Beerbohm. Courtesy Berlin Associates.

Item 63. Notes for essays on contemporaries. Manuscript, ca. 1915

Fictional Celebrities (Items 62-68)

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  • pencil sketch of several small heads and a handwritten list of names

    Fictional Celebrities (Items 62-68) Introduction

  • manuscript page showing Beerbohm's neat handwriting in black ink. He has crossed out several words in large blobs of black ink. The page is numbered 2 in the top right corner

    Item 62: Letter to Bohun Lynch (June 18, 1921)

  • Open notebook with doodles of caricatures on the page on the left

    Item 63: Notes for essays on contemporaries (ca. 1915)

  • Sketch of two people (a man and a woman) dining, whilst another man is reaching towards them to speak to them.

    Item 64: "‘Excuse–Permit Me,’ He Said Softly" (ca. 1919)

  • Open book, top half of which is an illustration depicting two men seating on a table on the left, and a man standing on the right, talking towards them, and text on the bottom half of the pages

    Item 65: “Enoch Soames” in Century Magazine (1916)

  • Illustration depicting a tall woman dressed in elegant clothes and swirly hat

    Item 66: Zuleika (1912)

  • The opening spread of a book. On the left is a list of new novels, with a caricature of Beerbohm gesturing to them, and on the right is the text "Zuleika Dobson" with a drawing of a woman's head underneath.

    Item 67: Max Beerbohm's copy of Zuleika Dobson (1911)

  • pencil sketch of several small heads and a handwritten list of names

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