ABSTRACT
Walter Lamb, though he was never elected to the Apostles, was a member, with Strachey, of the Shakespeare Society and of the Cambridge X Society, a play-reading group, and a contributor of several poems to Euphrosyne: A Collection of Verse. A suitor of Virginia Stephen for several years before the intensification of her relationship with Leonard Woolf, Lamb also served from 1913 to 1951 as secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, and had an early intimate relationship with James Strachey. Walter Lamb's younger brother Henry, with whom Lytton Strachey was intimate, painted a provocative portrait of Lytton over a period of several years; finally displayed in 1922. In the past seventy-five years, no evidence has emerged to clarify the authorship or the date of composition of 'Good God'. The role that Lytton Strachey played in its composition, therefore, remains uncertain.
