Born only three days apart in August 1872, Aubrey Beardsley and Max Beerbohm were introduced to one another by the artist William Rothenstein and soon formed a close friendship. Beardsley was of course the most brilliant, and also provocative, illustrator of the 1890s, famous for his illustrations to Oscar Wilde’s Salome, London’s Yellow Book quarterly, and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.

By Will Noel I had a delightful lunch with Alfred Bush at the Witherspoon Grill a few months ago.  Alfred was curator of Western Americana for 40 years from 1962 and is a member of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. I thought I […]

Selected by Emma Sarconi

By Emma Sarconi The Toni Morrison Papers (C1491), housed in Firestone Library, is one of our most requested collections. Every year, researchers from all over the world and all over campus come to the reading room on C-floor to view draft copies of Beloved, letters […]