Lytton Strachey notes, portrait, and signed quotation, 1924-1930.

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Lytton Strachey notes, portrait, and signed quotation, 1924-1930.

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The collection consists of four items: note card to Mr. R. Strachey, postmarked 2 Dec. 1924, returning The English Review and indicating he enjoyed the article very much; to Dear Mildred, 26 Nov. 1930, complying with an unspecified request and enclosing the result, an Italian motto on a card, signed by Strachey, "Per molto variare la natura è bella;" studio portrait of Strachey, posed as if reading a book, credited to H. Walter Barnett.

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Barnett, H. Walter (Henry Walter), 1862-1934

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Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932

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Lytton Strachey was born to an upper-middle class family in London, and educated at Cambridge, where he was part of the rebellious Apostles, a precursor to the Bloomsbury Group. Strachey became an essayist and literary critic; he also wrote poetry, but is best remembered as a biographer. Although he wrote some conventional biographies, his best work was Eminent Victorians, a collection of biographical essays that relied on Strachey's trademark psychological insight rather than exhaustive researc...