BEERBOHM, MAX. Group of 4 Autograph Letters Signed, "Max" or "Max Beerbohm," to publisher John Lane, concerning Beerbohm's short story, "The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men" (1896). Together 8 pages, 8vo, mostly personal stationery, with integral blank; faint scattered soiling, horizontal fold. Vp, vd
26 August 1896: ". . . I should like to come and see you about the Happy Hypocrite &c. Have you seen any paragraphs about my causerie in Tomorrow? I have written a really rather amusing thing about the Colour of Life in a good advertisement for Mrs [Alice] Meynell's book and for my own. It is chiefly chaff, of course, but I have praised her, on the whole . . . ." 3 August 1915: "I am looking forward to coming to the Bodley Head, and to seeing the Sheringham pictures [George Sheringham's illustrations for Happy Hypocrite (1918)]. . . . I think I must have among my archives at Upper Berkeley Street some drawings of Whistler; and I will rummage accordingly." With--Group of 4 letters from relatives of Beerbohm to John Lane or Alfred Harmsworth. Elisabeth Beerbohm (2). ALsS, reporting Max's birthdate or inviting for lunch • Herbert Beerbohm Tree. ALS, to Harmsworth, inviting him to a premiere performance and congratulating him on [founding] the Daily Mail • Constance Beerbohm. ALS, thanking for sending copies of Happy Hypocrite and remarking that "I am sure my little stall will do the book good." Together 8 pages, 8vo or small 4to. [London], circa 1897.
