Edwin Carp was a fictitious personality, a fish impersonator and eccentric poet played on radio by British character actor Richard Haydn. Haydn "edited" The Journal of Edwin Carp (1954), his only book, published with "embellishments" by Ronald Searle. A copy of the book dedicated by the illustrator to Fitzwilliam Barrington with birthday wishes was offered on eBay in 2015. After the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in the Second World War, Barrington and Searle were fellow Prisoners of War. Fitz's copy of the book is personalized by Searle with caricatures of the illustrator and his wife Kaye Webb depicted not as people but as—oh, you guessed it!
Note: This year is the centenary of Ronald Searle.
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Ronald Searle eBay Listing Ended April 19, 2015 |
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The Return of Edwin Carp
"The Dick Van Dyke Show"
Season 3, Episode 27
April 1, 1964
Richard Haydn as Edwin Carp
Note: This year is the centenary of Ronald Searle.
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