NEWBOLT (Sir HENRY, 1862-1938, poet) PEN INK AND WASH CARICATURE OF NEWBOLT BY MAX BEERBOHM, three-quarter-length, profile portrait facing right, with a signed and dated autograph note by Beerbohm at the head: 'My dear Newbolt, Here is that transcription of the Newbolt Plan of features, without [Maurice] Hewlitt to interrupt the view. Yours ever Max Beerbohm', on headed notepaper of Villino Chiaro, Rapallo, with several related newspaper cuttings of the correspondence, framed and glazed, size of aperture c. 7 x 5 inches, overall size c. 13 x 11 inches, 6 April 1914

Newbolt had just written to The Times proposing a plan for the solution of the Irish Question. A correspondence ran between 30 March and 7 April 1914. Newbolt suggested that both sides could obtain the conditions they had laid down, both Asquith's and Carson's. His plan was that any counties of Ulster might, by Referendum, be excluded for six years, and that after that time could be included in the Acts for Irish Government if a resolution of the House of Commons so decreed. (Rupert Hart Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, no. 1095. The drawing is reproduced in The Later Life and Letters of Sir Henry Newbolt, 1942, p. 180).

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