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Items in Celebrity Afterlives (Items 69-73)

  • Cartoon depicting Max Beerbohm with a large head and slim body walking into a room of people pointing and looking at him

    Celebrity Afterlives (Items 69-73) Introduction

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    Item 69: "Cecil Beaton’s ‘Photobiography’" in Vogue (June 1951)

  • Letter from Tolkien to Riewald

    Item 70: J.R.R. Tolkien. Letter to J.G. Riewald (August 20, 1948)

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    Item 71: S.N. Behrman. "Conversations with Max" in The New Yorker (March 1960)

  • drawing of Max Beerbohm with a large head on a tiny body. His face and body are heavily shaded, while his hat is just an outline sketch. Max stands wearing a suit, with one arm on his hip and the other resting on a pencil that he is using as a support.

    Item 72: David Levine. Max Beerbohm (1974)

  • Caricature of Oscar Wilde, with bright pink skin and grey floppy hair, wearing green carnation and standing over a pile of epigrams.

    Item 73: Gerald Scarfe. "I Have Nothing to Declare but My Flippancy" (2002)

  • Cartoon depicting Max Beerbohm with a large head and slim body walking into a room of people pointing and looking at him

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