BIB_ID
128605
Accession number
MA 3261
Creator
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.
Display Date
"Friday" 1896?].
Credit line
Gift of Frederick A. Melhado, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 14.9 x 9.7 cm
Notes
Written on stationery engraved "48, Upper Berkeley Street, W."
The date of writing is not given and from the contents of the letter there is some ambiguity as to the year of writing. Ada Leverson published her parody of Hichens in Punch in the July 4, 1896 issue, however it appears that Beerbohm did not move to 48 Upper Berkeley Street until 1897. Beerbohm refers to the exhibition of his caricatures at the Carfax Gallery on which he was working, but he did not have his first exhibition at Carfax until November 1901. He did have an exhibition of six of his caricatures in October 1896 at London's Fine Art Society.
The date of writing is not given and from the contents of the letter there is some ambiguity as to the year of writing. Ada Leverson published her parody of Hichens in Punch in the July 4, 1896 issue, however it appears that Beerbohm did not move to 48 Upper Berkeley Street until 1897. Beerbohm refers to the exhibition of his caricatures at the Carfax Gallery on which he was working, but he did not have his first exhibition at Carfax until November 1901. He did have an exhibition of six of his caricatures in October 1896 at London's Fine Art Society.
Provenance
Gift of Frederick A. Melhado, 1980.
Summary
Complimenting her on her Hichens parody, encouraging her to finish it, asking if she was writing it for "Punch" and adding "But it is really too good for them;" saying he had hoped to call on her but he has "...had to stay in every day working - doing caricatures for exhibition at Carfax - etc - etc - and now I feel very much fatigued...;" relating plans for a weekend in Hampstead and his hope to call on her the following week.
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