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Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers, 1896 December

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 3, Folder: 30

Scope and Contents

Handwritten letter on very fragile lined sheet, with original envelope. Date estimate from postmark.

Letter includes a small design drawing for Ernest Dowson's The Pierrot of the Minute, published by Smithers in 1897. Letter also mentions Max Beerbohm.

Purchase, Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, 1977 (Clark accession MS.1977.029).

Dates

  • Creation: 1896 December

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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