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Max Beerbohm’s Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley
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.
Inclusive Description and Reparative Action
By Quin DeLaRosa and Kate Mitchell Here, we present an abstract and author reflections from a staff report given on August 18, 2022. Abstract: Reparative action has become something of increasing concern for archivists in the twenty-first century. With the rejection of neutrality in the […]
A Mayan Inkpot
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 […]
Now Available: The Discovering Toni Morrison Digital Portal
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 […]
A Donne Deal
his unique item presents the very definition of research value. It is also one of the last sources for John Donne remaining in private hands, and so many, many thanks to the Friends for bringing it to Princeton, where it will be available for research and study by all.