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Original oval photograph of the Xerxes Society (a club made up of several like-minded young male contemporaries) 1910, including their secretary, Henry Miller. Taken by Pedlar's Photo Studio, Brooklyn (with their stamp to verso), in original glassine envelope with photographer stamp.

Together with: Copy photograph of the same, with lenthy holograph note to verso by Miller; group of 3 printed alumni cards from the Xerxes Society, listing quotes from members, incl. Miller & certain others who were later represented by characters in Miller's The Rosy Crucifixion and possibly Tropic of Cancer (like William Dewar). One card illus. with reproduction photograph of the group, incl. a very young Henry Miller. Also with the club ribbon in fine condition, in a Nassau Nat'l. Bank, Brooklyn envelope. Brooklyn: 1910-12. Likely one of the earliest photographs known of Miller in his youth. Miller was the Secretary of the club, and there are long passages about the Xerxes Society in Plexus and The Books in My Life.