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JOHN (AUGUSTUS)
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ILLUSTRATED WITH A SELF-PORTRAIT OF JOHN WITH DORELIA, IDA, AND THEIR THREE SONS, about to set off on a picnic, drawn in pen-and-ink and ink wash; and the figures captioned by John "Dorelia", "The Hon. Mrs Dowdall" (Mary Dowdall, 'the Rani'), "Caspar", "Susan" [i.e. Ida] holding "Robin", "Me" and "Tony" [i.e. David]. Robin, who is shewn as a baby in Ida's arms, was born on 23 October 1904. (For Ida's use of the name Susan, see Michael Holroyd, August John: the New Biography, 1996, p. 185.) Overleaf, on the last page, is a caricature in profile of Charles McEvoy, uttering the words "Very pleasant".



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