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Series IV. Outgoing Correspondence [series]: |
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Undated - 1907 |
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GBS : Autograph Note to Unknown [n.p.] The [pound sign] 500 can begin on the 1st June
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GBS : Autograph Note to Unknown [n.p.] Say there is a statutory right of reasonable quotation,
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Unknown [Westminster] Dear Sir, As you have been a good friend to the Labour Research
Department [Written on Labour Research Department letterhead asking for
donations.]
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GBS : Typed Letter[draft] Signed to Editor of "The Nation" [n.p.] Sir/ May I again point out the cruel absurdities in which we have been
landed [Regarding the case of Stephen Hobhouse.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Kiell Ayliff [n.p.] Would a Chaplin moustache be a breach of faith
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GBS :Typed Letter[draft] Signed to Governors of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital [n.p.] The Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital having inteded to
entertain
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GBS : Typed Letter to Dr. Inches [n.p.] Dear Dr. Inches, I have a tragic tale to tell of that unique juicer.
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GBS : Autograph Note to [Blanche Patch] [London] Male servants licens abolished after January 1937.
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GBS : Autograph Letter to [Blanche Patch] Ayot St. Lawrence; Can you do with [pound sign] 500? Net?
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GBS : Autograph Letter to [Blanche Patch] [n.p.] In the study/ Bernard's Brethren, typed copy bound in red cloth.
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GBS : Envelope addressed to Miss Ethel Shaw Torquay; [In Shaw's hand]
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GBS : Autograph Note to Charles Thomas [n.p.] This is on no account to be inserted in the Music article [Envelope is
addressed to Robson & Son, Printers; note on envelope directs Shaw to
"Please send this at once by hand to" Dobson & Son. Plus a note by B.F.
Burgunder identifying Thomas.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter[shorthand, draft] to R. G. Walford [n.p.] Dear Mr. Walford/ The Society of Authors has sent me your letter about
televising [Includes typed transcription of letter]
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GBS : Envelope Addressed to Mrs. Gordon Walters [Hertshire] [Adressed to Mrs. Gordon Walters [Ethel Shaw] in Shaw's hand.]
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GBS : Autograph Note [n.p.] Immaturity [Presumably the identification card Shaw inserted beneath the
string of the manuscript bundle. With note explaining it's significance, signed
FEL.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to John Manger Fells [n.p.] My dear Fells/ I hereby solemnly undertake 9without in any was pledging
myself) to submit
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Edwin Habgood London; Ha! ha! ha! Health, education, and recreation: What a dog you are!
[Included is typed transcription plus 2 leaf copy of original letter.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mrs. Emery Walker London; Dear Mrs. Walker, Never shilst I live will I steal a handkerchief
again.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harold Wright London; Dear Wright/ I give you my word that the enclosed is the first five
shillings
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harold Wright London; Dear Wright/ You looked as if you wanted to sit on the safety valve
this evening.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harold Wright London; Dear Wright/ We are indeed at the gates of hell;
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Jenny Patterson London; As to Beatty, do as you please. Only remember that - [On verso is
Jenny's reply to Shaw, dated Wednesday. Included is 2 leaf note by B.F.
Burgunder and a photograph of each side of the leaf.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Alice Lockett London; My dear Alice/ I swear by the spirit of Nature's author, which is in
the hills, [With 3 photographic copies of the letter and one of the envelope
along with negatives.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Frances E. (Trickett)
Archer London; Dear Mrs. Archer/ I have at last made time to go carefully through your
MS;
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Bartlett London; Dear Bartlett/ If it were possible for me to belong to the Bloomsbury
Society
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Walter J. Evans London;Dear Sir/ In Social Democracy there is practically infinite scope for
courage, [With 2 page typed transcription]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Tighe Hopkins London; Dear Hopkins/ In vain all these friendly remonstrances. [With 9 page
typed transcription.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Tighe Hopkins London; Dear Hopkins/ I return R's letter, for which thanks.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Grant Richards London; Henry & Leo have bust up their business [With note from B.F.
Burgunder.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter[card] Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ There has been nothing doing in the musical line;
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Jacob Thomas
Grein London; Dear Sir/ Could you put off the Ibsen evening to next year?
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to J. M. Strudwick London; A proof of my article has just come to hand.
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ My bad habits are altogether the fault of
Spottiswoodes.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ There is absolutely nothing doing in the way of music
now.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ Nothing happened last week that I could write about
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ You have no doubt noticed that Harris (Sir Augustus)
has resolved to boycott
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ What are the regulations under which my last article
was disqualified?
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas London;Dear Mr. Thomas/ This is mere cruelty to animals.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to H. Berwick London;Dear Sir/ I have to lecture at Norwood on the 19th.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to H. Berwick London; Dear Sir/ I find that I shall be out of town in January
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Jacob Thomas Grein London; Dear Grein/ You ask me for particulars about the play.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed toHenry W. Massingham London; Dear Messingham/ Mrs. Messingham has just written to me to ask about
Mrs. Behnke.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Elizabeth Robins London; Oh my Saint Elizabeth, holy and consoling, [With note from B.F.
Burgunder]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to C. D. Yates London; Dear Yatess/ I look forward with the greatest misgiving to the World's
progress
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to C. D. Yates London; My dear Yates/ I thought it possible that the command might be taken by
Major Griffiths,
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GBS Typed Letter Signed to Major Arthur Griffiths London; Dear Major Griffiths/ Not a bit of it : there is no objection in the
world on my part
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ It occurs tome that as those books ought, I suppose,
to be reviewed,
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Charrington London; I have just had a telegram to say that the license must be for the
Theatre Royal, [With note from B.F. Burgunder]
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GBS : Autograph Letterpostcard] Signed to J. W[erner]
L[aurie] London; Dear Sir/ The remittance is all right : there was no question of a
presentation.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to T. Fisher Unwin London; Dear Fisher Unwin/ I have just had notice that the Fabian committee
meeting
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GBS : Typed Letter[mimeograph] Signed to Ellen Terry London; [ Correspondence between Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw. Taken from
"Ellen Terry & Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence" for Radio Broadcast on the
occasion of Ellen Terrery's birthday]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Sally Fairchild London; Sally Fairchild/ If you send any "nice, pretty, ambitious little girl
who is an actress" to me, [Fairchild was talking about Ethel Barrymore as
metioned in a note from M.A. DeW. H[owe]. Included is a 2 page note from B.F.
Burgunder.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Charrington London; Thanks for the fiver. I am not pressed just now;
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Charrington London; Excuse me - I forgot to acknowledge the fiver. Many thanks;
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Jaegers Sanitary Wollen
Co. London; I am sorry to say that the Daily Mail telegram is not sound commercial
security
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Sydney Cockerell London; You should have let me do the art lectures
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Kennedy London; Dear Mrs. Kennedy/ I am invalided just at present, or I should ask Mr.
Kennedy
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed toEdward R. Pease Haslemere, Surrey; Dear Pease/ Is Mrs. Morgan Thomas still a member?
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GBS : Autograph Letter [draft] to [London Councilman?] [London] Dear Sir/ I greatly regret that I shall be unable to attend the
meeting
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Clarence Rook London; Dear Rook/ I have just heard incidentally, through my acquaintance with
Cunnighame Graham's people,
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to H. S. Salt London; I called at Holbein House on Saturday evening, [With typed
transcription and envelope]
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GBS : Typed Letter[copy?] Signed to Walter Crane London; My dear Crane/ All this seems to me to be true of the case of the
natives
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mr. McCleary London; Dear McCleary/ Forgive me for reminding you, but you have not yet,
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ Mr. Hanson Lewis has submitted the enclosed interview
to me.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harley Granville-Barker London; Dear Mr. Barker. If this reaches you in Maine, [With dealer's
description]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Close London;Dear Mr. Close/ I begin to see that there was a special Providence in
your being Church warden
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GBS : Typed Letter[printed] Signed to Mrs. Bertrand Russell London; Please do not be misled by the recent newspaper paragraphs [With note
by B.F. Burgunder]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Chrchwarden [Mr.
Close?] London;Dear Mr. Churchwarden/ What about Friday? Yesterday I went for the first
time
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Chrchwarden [Mr.
Close?] London; Dear Mr. Churchwarden/ This is simply damnable - red ruin and the
breaking up of laws.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Matthew Hale Douglas London; Dear Sir/ You seem to be an extremely sentimental college
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to T. Fisher Unwin Guildford; Dear Fisher Unwin/ For such a book as you sugges we are, I am
afraid, a day after the fair.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Frank Plowright London; You can't get any theatre for rehearsals in the evening
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to W. J. Douglas London; Dear Sir/ Go to the nearest Town Hall and sit in the ratepayers gallery
[ With dealer's description]
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GBS : Autograph Letter[copy, printed] Signed to Courtenay
Thorpe Guildford; Courtenay's letter has just come.[Printed in The Frances W. and H.
Jack Lang Letter Collection Catalogue at Case Western Reserve University
Libraries, p. 27, with description.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Kate (Dickens) Perugini London; My dear Mrs. Kate/ I got your letter at Siena; but I have had to wrait
for a little lull
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to William Butler
Yeats London; I have it quite seriously in my head to write an Irish play
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GBS : Typed Letter [copy] Signed to Edward Pease Stracher, Loch Tyne; Dear Pease, I cnnot attend the Executive on Friday, [With
note from B. F. Burgunder]
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GBS : Autograph & Typed Letters[copies] Signed to
Brentano's London; [Copies of many letters to Brentano's.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to J. E. Brydone London; Dear Sir/ I quite sympathize with your objection to the present high
rating;
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Brentano's London; Dear Sirs/ I have only j8ust returned from a holiday in Rome.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Editor of the "Saturday
Review" [London?] Mislaid this until 21/4/05, when I returned the cheque [Note written
on acknowledgement receipt; with dealer's description]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Rosina Filippi [London?] My dear Miss Filippi/ Whjat is this I hear about your being engaged
to Hicks [With copy of verso of letter]
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Brentano's Derry, Rosscarbery, Co., Cork; The copyright law as to the I. K. is as
follows.
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Millicent Murby London; My dear Miss Murby/ I advise you not to make yourself dependent on
acting for your livelihood.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[draft] Signed to Editor of the
"Standard" London; Sir- In the notice of my play in your issue of yesterday,
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Edward R. Pease Hafody Bryn, Llanbedr; Dear Pease/ Maude has got Dent on the brain. [With
dealer's description]
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Brentano's Llanbedr, Merionethshire; In a bibliography which has just [been] compiled for
me
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Archibald Henderson Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; Mr dear Henderson/ You must restrain
your enthusiasm for photogiavure, [With dealer's transcription and
description.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Gladys M. Rees Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; I quite appreciate the suggestion : in
fact I have thought sponaneously of doing something
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Edgar Jepson Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; C. H. Norman, an S. D. F.er who has
been down here
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed toMrs. [Pakenham?] Beatty Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; Dear Mrs. Beatty/ It is possible to get
from 3 1/2 to 4 % on investments
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Ben Iden Payne Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; I got your letter too late to wire.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Rosina Filippi London; Dear Miss Filippi/ Yes, by all means. At the end of the second act,
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1908 -1915 |
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GBS : Typed Letter [fragment, draft?] to Messrs. Schneider and
Jablonski [n.p.] ... That the entirely new passages, as distinct from more unimportnat
revisions... [Pages 3 and 4 only; corrected by hand. Recipients address is
Berlin, Leipzigerstr., 101-2.]
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GBS : Typed Letter [copy] to Augustin Hamon Ayot St. Lawrence; My dear Hamon/ I telegraphed yesterday to same time. [Shaw
discusses foreign language publications of his works. Included in folder is a 3
page explanation by B.F. Burgunder of the French & German editions of Shaw
in the Cornell collection along with 8 pages of various catalogues listing Shaw
items along with photocopies of some of the items listed. The Hamon letter is
probably one of the items that was singled out.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Unknown Ayot St. Lawrence: Dear Sir/ The story about the watch was in full swing about
Charles Bradlaugh
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Mrs. Eveleen
Myers London; Dine? Never.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to [Robert d'Humieres] Battler's Green, Letchmore Heath; My dear Marquis/ You are wrong about Hamon.
He has style, grit,
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GBS : Typed Letter [copy?] to Dr. Erich Hoffmann [n.p.] Dear Sir, I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 26th inst.,
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to C. H. Norman London; My dear Norman, I have nothing whatever to say about the criticisms.
With copy send by Guy Bolton to Shaw who returned it with a note : "Dear Guy
Bolton/ I have no recollection of this letter ... [With catalogue listing of
the letters upon which B.F. Burgunder has typed a long note.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Miss Andrews London; Dear Miss Andrews, In case you have been able to get Messrs Ellis and
Walery
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Miss Marion Chappell London; Dear Miss Chappell, It would of course be impossible for me to refuse
to allow Richard Strauss
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GBS : Typed Letter [copy] to Curt Otto [n.p.] Dear Doctor Otto, Your letter of the 11th August arrived here while I
was travelling abroad;
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GBS : Typed Letter [copy] to Curt Otto [n.p.] Dear Doctor Otto, If the Creator of the Universe, surrounded by all his
archangels, [With 1 leaf from Dan H. Laurence commenting on the Dr. Otto
letters.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to The Cambridge [Mass.] University
Press London; Dear Sirs, Enclosed is a preface for which I wish to secure American
copyright. [With Dan H. Laurence's comments.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mrs. Gamble London; My dear Mrs. Gamble, The difficulty in this religious controversy
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GBS : Autograph Letter [fragment] Signed to Brentano's Gibraltar; P.S. I hope this is sufficiently stamped. [Written on the envelope,
no letter included.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory London; Dear Lady Gregory, I think the best thing to do is to collect Synge's
work first;
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GBS : Autograph Letter [copy] Signed to C.A. Vanderwell &
Co. [n.p.] Dear Sirs/I have now carried my trial of your electric lighting system
[With note from B.F. Burgunder and Dan H. Laurence]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mona Limerick London; Dear Miss Mona Limerick, In September last I wrote to your unworthy
husband
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory London; Dear Lady Gregory, The Stage Society will take anything you can give
it
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GBS : Written Letter Signed to John E. Vedrenne Ayot St. Lawrence; My Dear VD, Vex not your soul with the superman
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GBS : Autgraph Letter Signed to James Waters, Jr. Ayot St. Lawrence; Dear Waters/ It is arranged that nothing is to come out
about the repertory scheme
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to A. B. Kershaw Queen's Hotel, Soutsea; Dear Sir, Your letter has only just overtaken me, [With
not from dealer Paul C. Richards regarding the letter.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to A. B. Kershaw Ayot St. Lawrence; Dear Sir/ I hope the enclosed will provide Miss Gladys with
a satisfactory pet, [With note from B.F. Burgunder.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E.
Vedrenne London; If Miss Buona Bent will call tomorrow between 12.30 & 1,
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E.
Vedrenne Pyrenees; I shall not be back until the end of the month
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to C. H. Norman London; I answered both letters. Have my replies miscarried?
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Unknown Ayot St. Lawwrence; Lord bless her innocence, with her two dozen!
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Rattray Edstaston wem Shrewsbury; I am afraid I am already full up for next season.
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E.
Vedrenne Edstaston wem Shrewsbury; Whitney-Barbara is all bunkum. He wants to conciliate
me
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Ben Iden Payne Carrigart Co., Donegal; It would be an interesting experiment: try it by all
means.
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GBS : Autograph Letter [copy] Signed to Olga Nethersole Parknasilla-on-Sea, Co. Kerry; My dear Miss Nethersole/ I shall never get this
dreadful book out:
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to H. W.
Massingham Loondon; Mark anything on the proof you want softened or omitted.
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GBS : AL [postcard] S to John E. Vedrenne London; Barker won't come up : he syas that as the scenery is going into your
store
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GBS : Autograph Letters[postcards] to Margaret Halstan London; 10 directional postcards for Raina in "Arms and the Man". [Shaw
apparently dropped in on the performance and noted his suggestions for her
portrayal. Each postcard has a different picture of Shaw on the back. Plus
there are transcriptions of each postcard on separate sheets. Plus a note from
B.F. Burgunder explaining the situation.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E.
Vedrenne Savoie, Thonon-les-Bains; I have no objection in the world to Mrs. Fay;
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GBS : Typed Letter [carbon] Signed to Ralph Brodrick London; Dear Sir, I attach a special value to the invitation with which you
have honored me
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GBS : Typed Letter [mimeograph] to Emil Davies London; My dear Emil Davies, In reply to your letter asking for my opinion
[Note at top of letter says this letter was mimeographed and sent to all
members of the Fabian Society.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Viola Tree Ayot St. Lawrence; My dear Viola/ If I had had a notion that you would have
liked Eurdice,
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to D. Lewin Mannering Ayot St. Lawrence; Dear Lewin Mannering, You will drive me out of my
senses.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Viola Tree Edsteston wem Shrewsbury; My dear Viola/ Just three lines in frantic haste to
catch the post.
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to John Palmer London; Dear Mr. Palmer, What I said about a book on the censorship would not
hold
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GBS : Autograph Letter [shorthand draft] to J.N. Duddington [Ayot St. lawrence] Dear Mr. Duddington, Shall we say provisionally a pound a
week for the furniture [With letter from Duddington to Mrs. Shaw, 23-6-12, and
a transcription of Shaw's shorthand; plus a note from B.F. Burgunder with
explanations.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to C. H. Norman [London] Dear Norman, The Malatesta Case comes sufficiently within the range of
Radical interest [With note in Shaw's hand at the tope]
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Dorothy Minto London; As the book is coming to pieces I have sent it to be stitched [With
note from B. F. Burgunder giving background.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter [card] Signed to [Cyril Sykes] It is quite a mistake to suppose that male polictical prisoners are in any way
privileged.
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Simon Brentano London; My dear Mr. Brentano, Whatever the reason may be, it is beyond all
question
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GBS : Autograph Letter[card] to Simon Brentano London; The enclosed will help to document my letter
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory Ayot St. Lawrence; My dear Lady Gregory/ Three times at least I have begun
letters to you; [With comments from Dan. H. Laurence]
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Augusta, Lady
Gregory Ayot St. Lawrence; Our letters crossed. I'll write to the Lord Mayor. [Shaw
photo on the back of the postcard]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Walter Stephens London; Dear Sir, The thing is entirely impossible.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Blake Adams London; Dear Blake Adams/ I made one or two notes at the last perfomance.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to William Poel London; I was in front on Tuesday with Barker,
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Brentano's London; Dear Brentanos, On going through your accounts I find no mention
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Clifford Sharp Ayot St. Lawrence; I have been finally crushed by Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Ashley Dukes Ayot St. Lawrence; Dear Ashley Dukes/ It will perhaps amuse you to learn that
the following conversation [With transcription included.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Rosina Fillippi Valence -s-Rhone; My dear Rosina Filippi/ Thank you for a very welcome
letter.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Clifford Sharp London; G.K.C. has utterly failed to get a rise out of me.
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to John E. Vedrenne London; My dear Vedrenne, Have you got the old prompt copy of the
Philanderer?
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GBS : Autograph Letter[card] Signed to Unknown London; Keep all these press cuttings until the performances [With note from
B.F. Burgunder]
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Gilbert Murray London; Sheafs of invitations, mostly from people who make downstrokes
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Fanny [Brough] Ayot St. Lawrence; Dearest Fanny/ What! Carlotta Addison gone! [With dealer's
description with transcription included .]
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GBS : Typed Letter[copy] Signed to Constable & Co. London; Dear Contables: My novels are not copywrite in America, [With letter
from Constable & Co., November 10th 1914 asking Shaw about selling his
books in America. Plus note from B.F. Burgunder on the copy and note from Dan
H. Laurence too.]
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Bretano's London; My dear Brentano's/ Mr Doubleday's offer is an important one.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[card] Signed to Harold Wright London; Many thanks for the book. It will be most useful to me.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to W. Perriton Maxwell Torquay; Dear Mr. Perriton Maxwell/ I had rather not answer your questions just
now,
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Sir John Squire orquay; Dear Squire/ Read the enclosed. Denis Mackail is a son of Jack Mackail
[With note from B.F. Burgunder with brief identity sketches of those mentioned
in the letter. Pasted into a hard binding.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory Torquay; My dear Lady Gregory/ O'Flaherty V.C. many now, I think, re regarded
as a certainty.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[telegram] to Carolos Paton Blacker Torquay; At vane Gower yesterday. Carolos handed the telegram from
authorities.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to August, Lady Gregory Torquay; My dear Lady Gregory/ On the point of returning to London
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Carlos Paton Blacker Torquay; My dear Pep/ The worst is over at Vane Lower.
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GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Carlos Paton
Blacker Torquay; My letter of yesterday needs a postscript.
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GBS : Autograph[shorthand] Letter Signed to Harry M. Paull [London] My dear Paull, The members present did me a great injustice. [With
typed transcription of shorthand.]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Florence (Johnston) Gamble London; My dear Florence/ Why doesn't Constance get a war job? [With note from
B.F. Burgunder]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Florence (Johnston)
Gamble London?; begins "My dear Florence / How did that come about, I wonder?"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Brentano's London; begins "Dear Brentano's / I enclose, first, some photographs"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; with a typed prospectus; revised in Shaw's hand, for the volume of
plays containing Androcles,Overruled,and Pygmalion
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; begins "Dear Brentanos / The shortage of labor here makes it"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed] London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson / If you won't read my works by
degrees"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson Ayot St. Lawrence; postcard bearing photograph of Shaw; begins "I sent the last
copy but one of the Caesar / prologue"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; begins "Dear Brentanos / In your last accounting to me"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I have at last heard from Robert"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Sedbergh; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I don't at all agree about Ibsen"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Sedbergh; begins "What are the prospects of the / Abbey Players ever"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson Sedbergh; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I got Harris's
book (the Wilde / one) before the 7th August"
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GBS : Autograph Note: to "Carbonato" [Paul Reynolds] Text of a telegram Shaw sent to his New York agent regarding the sale of
O'Flaherty V.C.;with transcription on a separate leaf; begins
"Am doubtful about Flaherty / What does Hearst offer / play contains roughly
9,000 words"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John E. Vedrenne Turners Hill, Sussex; purchased at Sotheby's, December 13, 1994; begins "I have
been out of London since Androclesappeared"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson Sedbergh; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Hesketh
Pearson / I have kept a copy of the letter"
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GBS : Autograph Note: Envelopes addressed to Ernest Newman, the music
critic One envelope is labelled Sedbergh, the other London
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman Sedbergh; begins "Dear Mr. Newman / I have just read your article"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Sedbergh; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I now find that
there is a / difficulty about publication."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman London; begins "My dear Newman / I cannot make up my mind about
Glastonbury."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Now, God
help you, you are, like all hero"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; typed transcription on separate leaf; with two of Shaw's
printed postcards, one beginning "I have received your letter," the other
beginning "Mr. Bernard Shaw's secretary has general instructions"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson / Since you like writing letters"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to W.J. Bassett-Lowke London; the body of the letter is in the hand of Ann Elder, Shaw's secretary;
includes note on separate leaf by Bernard Burgunder; begins "It is quite clear
that there has been no advance on"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Yes: my last letter
to F.H. dealt with / Captain Kidd"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "If you have any
copies of the Wilde book to / spare"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I am
sending one of my vellum copies"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; begins "Dear Brentanos / I have just come across an unanswered
letter"
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GBS : to Autograph Letter Signed: Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "You will
see by the enclosed that / MacCarthy"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to A.G.? Gardiner Ayot St. Lawrence; with explanatory note on separate leaf; deals with World War
I; begins "My dear Gardiner / I was, as you may imagine, delighted with your
article: "The Dynasts"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to C.D. Medley, Jr.
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Many thanks for the tip. I knew about the / section,
and, as I now find on working out a few cases, / underrated its value."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I have talked to the Stage Society"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear
Hesketh Pearson / I have been at the front"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Herbert Thurston London; with photocopy of Thurston's article "Truth and falsehood about crime
in Germany" from The Month(London) Jan. 1916, pp. 19-33; begins
"Dear Sir / I am greatly obliged to you for sending me your"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "If you
will send me the article I / will try to"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory, I have practically pledged myself"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Lt. W.J. Wills London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Wills / How
do you feel about it generally?"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Sergei Ivanov Gift of Dan H. Laurence, January 1989; acquired by him as a discard from the
British Museum; see his letter to J. Tyler of January 10, 1989; with a note in
the hand of Dan H. Laurence near bottom of the sheet; original letter
unlocated; begins "Dear Sir / I have written an article for you"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] London; begins "He literally was hovering over our chimney / pots with"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Sir Horace Plunkett On the Irish political situation; with an explanatory "Note from Dan H.
Laurence" on separate leaf signed B.F. Burgunder and dated May 10, 1977; begins
"My dear Plunkett / I approach the question before the convention"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman Priors Field, Surrey; Shaw on music; Newman was a music critic; begins "My dear
Newman / You have not tumbled to the joke about Strauss's Joseph. My elaborate
apology"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman Kenmare, Co. Kerry; begins "My dear Newman / This is a reply to your letter
from Nottingham"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman Newman was a music critic; London; begins "My dear Newman / It is really rather
interesting"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to B.H. Stern
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to W. Perriton Maxwell London; this letter is on the reverse side of a letter to Shaw from W. Perriton
Maxwell; begins "After death, what then?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; begins "I have already heard from and answered the editor"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / It was rather a pity that
we"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "The articles are being republished as"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sam. P. Gaines Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I really cannot understand a man going"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Charles Charrington London; begins "My dear Charrington / No: I didn't call. And what the dickens
is the"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; the letter is in part also a receipt; begins "Dear Brentanos / I have
this day received from you"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Your letter of the 14th. May suggests that"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to William Poel
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Colonel Lynch Parknasilla; on recruiting the Irish for the war; begins "Dear Colonel Lynch /
Your telegram about the recruiting reached me"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; begins "Please send a copy of my last volume of / plays"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson London?; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson / Why did it need a colossal war to"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Hesketh Pearson With revisions in his hand; all but the last paragraph is taken from the Oct.
28, 1918 letter, and most is published in Pearson's Bernard
Shaw(London 1942) on pp. 212-213, 216-217
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I think you may regard the"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Arthur Brentano London; card apparently sent through George Sylvester Viereck; begins "If the
Authors' League or the / Poetry Society"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; begins "My dear Brentano's / Your accounts dated the third January
1918"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gerald Gould London; with corrections in his hand; bought from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., in
January 1980; begins "Dear Gerald Gould / Hamon has the great
recommendation"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Capt. J.T. Wootton London; begins "Dear Sir, By all means send me any criticism you care"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ernest Thurtle London; Thurtle had written a "popular explanation of military law"; begins
"Dear Sir, As a rule I have to refuse all requests for prefaces."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Capt. J.T. Wootton London; with corrections in his hand; concerns the means to military
discipline; begins "Dear Sir / I do not think that any of the good
qualities"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Capt. J.T. Wootton London; the addressee's name is in this letter given as "Captain W.T.
Wootton"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I am
shocked to find your letter / among the"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Ernest Thurtle [initialed] London; the "book" was published in 1920 as Military Discipline and
Democracy,and was by Thurtle; begins "I have read the book, and will
write to you about it as soon"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Miss Chappell Glastonbury; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Miss
Chappell / What! begin writing light opera at"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Penlee; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I wash my hands of Androcles."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Curt Otto Gift of Bernard F. Burgunder, December 19, 1978; begins "Dear Herr Otto / It is
with great pleasure that I find"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to H.E. the Minister for Foreign
Affairs Read in conjunction with: Shaw, George Bernard. Typed Letter: to Dr. Emil
Szalai [copy], October 5, 1919; letter to the Hungarian Minister; begins "Dear
Sir / I am by profession a playwright, of Irish (officially British)
nationality"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dr. Emil Szalai Dr. Szalai was Shaw's Hungarian dramatic agent; includes holograph corrections
on the copy; begins "Dear Dr. Szalai / I have to thank you for your very
interesting letter"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Jan Sliwinski With explanatory note by Dan H. Laurence on separate leaf; begins "Dear Sir,
Mr. Bernard Shaw's authorized translator for"
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to G.M. Jeffries [shorthand] With "translation"; Shaw mentions a bulk offer of one million dollars for
rights to all his works; Jeffries' letter appears on verso; begins "Dear Sir /
The situation seems to be that Cashel Byron's Professionmay for
business purposes"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gladys Pearson London; begins "Dear Mrs. Pearson, This is getting serious."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Viola Tree London; begins "My dear Viola / I am sorry to say that I am convinced that"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I am just wiring Madame Vandervilde"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to J.H. Clynes London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; the autographed lithograph
referred to is in the Cornell Shaw Collection; See: Rothenstein, Sir William,
Lithograph portrait of G. Bernard Shaw; begins "Dear Mr. Clynes / I have
inscribed the lithograph in pencil, as ink would spoil it"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Curt Otto Gift of Bernard F. Burgunder, December 19, 1978; begins "Dear Herr Otto, It is
a crime to draw money from Germany"
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Mrs. Patrick Campbell?
[fragment] Instructions on acting the part of Eliza in Pygmalion;with
explanatory notes added on two separate leaves
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Viola Tree London; begins "My dear Viola / In reply to your kind note about seats"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Eugene Bertram Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I am sending the photographic / poses to Miss
Tree"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Eugene Bertram Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I forgot to say that I want a set / of the"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Orton Lewson London; begins "Dear Mr. Orton Lewson / I am just off to Ireland for a"
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| 12 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Viola Tree Kilteragh, Foxrock, Co. Dublin; return address written in: c/o the Rt. Hon. Sir
Horace Plunkett K.C.V.O.; begins "My dear Viola / Chuck Pygmalion like"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Lucan; begins "Dear Lady Gregory / We were unlucky today in not being"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory Lucan; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / As far as I can see the only"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch London; note by Shaw on envelope; begins "Dear Miss Patch / Would you care to
be my secretary?"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch Concerns his engagement of Blanche Patch as his secretary; begins "Dear Miss
Patch / May I take this as quite final?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch begins "Dear Miss Patch / By all means arrange with Mrs. Jackson"
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GBS : Autograph Note: Ayot St. Lawrence
Notes on the size and financing of Shaw's home in Ayot St. Lawrence; also
included is a map of the area, in an unknown hand; with a note by Bernard F.
Burgunder. From Oct. 15, 1920, Oct. 14, 1922, Sept. 23, 1928
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory London; formerly cataloged under the date 1916?; begins "My dear Lady Gregory,
The enclosed from Sally Not In"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed]
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to T. Crome London; written on a printed correspondence card [Laurence D7] beginning: I am
much obliged to you for your letter, which I have read carefully; letter begins
"It seems to me that if such a picture were / by Rembrandt"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Arthur Brentano London; begins "My dear Brentano, My new volume of plays will very soon be"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Edgar Jepson London; begins "My dear Jepson, You have got it all right I think; at least
that is"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Lillah McCarthy
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "On Monday
I shall be at the Drama League meeting at the Haymarket all afternoon"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to A.E. [George Russell?] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear A.E. Unluckily your letter came too
late."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] London; written on margin and verso of Typed Letter Signed to him from Hesketh
Pearson, May 26, 1921; begins "Dear H.P. / The difficulty about replying is
that it is"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "So that
is what you call licking my boots"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson, Will you send me a proof..."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Curtis Freshel London; begins "Dear Freschel, I knew I should get you into a fearful domestic
row"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson
/ It has taken so long to read the"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson, That essay of yours requires"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J.E. Vedrenne [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I am just starting on my holiday (meaning the
servants' holiday)"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Yorkshire; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Hesketh: it is a
pity you are such a ---- well, no matter."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Will you be so good as to / send a copy..."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; begins "Dear Brentano's, The enclosed letter and Insurance Policy"
|
| 13 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Sylvia Beach London; Cf. Ellmann, R., James Joyce, Letters III(New York,
1966), p. 50; statement of Shaw's critical appraisal of
Ulysses,with particular reference to its description of Dublin
life ca. 1870; begins "Dear Madam / I have read several fragments of
Ulyssesin its serial form"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [J.B.] Fagan [initialed] London; "H.H." is Heartbreak House.Fagan produced the play at
the Royal Court Theatre, Oct. 18, 1921; begins "My dear Fagan / Take a blue
pencil and copy of H.H.; and make the following cuts in Act III"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [?] London; advice on how to learn musical composition and conducting; begins "Dear
Sir, I can do nothing: old people like myself are"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J.E. Vedrenne [initialed] London; begins "Dear V.D. / I sent you a copy when the book was published"
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GBS : Autograph Postcard Signed: to Lady Gregory Augusta Ayot St. Lawrence; Yes, if you think it wise.
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Arthur Brentano London; begins "My dear Brentano, About tha tcollected edition of my works"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J.M. Strudwick Harlech, North Wales; begins "My dear Strudwick / I am getting slightly
middle-aged"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [Sir] Robert Donald
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; concerns the find for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre;
begins "I have defended the capital fund of the"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to C. David Sterling London; begins "Dear Sit, I find your letter waiting for me here (3.30
p.m.)"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to William Deuer, Jr.
[initialed] London; begins "Between ourselves, there was never a real old Italian method:
Tubal Cain used to talk about the bel canto"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Lady Rhondda London; begins "Dear Lady Rhondda / The worst of coming to one for an"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Minehead; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / Do you know the address of John"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Crewe; begins "Dear Miss Patch / It has suddenly dawned on me that I have"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dr. A.A. Warren Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "The difficulty about using this report"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Siegfried Trebitsch Malvern; instructions for Trebitsch's visit to England; begins "My dear
Trebitsch / I must write briefly because when I was in"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] London; begins "Alas! I finished up at Parknasilla / by slipping"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Olga Nethersole [initialed] London; includes facsimile of address on envelope; begins "What! Be wasted on
the chair!"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Conal O'Riordan [initialed] London; one leaf is a dealer description of the letter; "The proposal" is
evidently for O'Riordan to write a book about Shaw; the envelope is addressed
in a hand other than Shaw's; begins "My dear Conal / Unless the proposal
involves an advance of at least"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Werner Laurie London; apparently in response to a request for autobiographical material; with
explanatory note on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Werner Laurie / Many people
complain that it has never occurred to me to do anything else"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring London; begins "My dear Thring, In answer to yours of the 2nd about the"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Henry W. Massingham London; on the publication history of his article "On Going To Church"; gift of
Bernard F. Burgunder, nov. 17, 1978; begins "My dear Massingham, On Going To
Church is an"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George E. MacIlwain London; begins "Dear Sir / I am much obliged to you for sending me the two
columns of Needham news from the Boston Globe"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to George MacIlwain
[initialed] London; begins "Thanks for sending me the article"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; Pearson is one of Shaw's biographers; with a note by Bernard
F. Burgunder; begins "William being Silent at the top of his"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mrs. Forsyth Button London; acquired May 1992; begins "Why, when I have done a particularly / long
and hard job"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mr. Dupernex? London; evidently the gentleman had sent Shaw some kind of "relic" connected
with St. Joan; begins "Dear Mr. Dupernex / It was very kind of you to send me
the enclosed; but I return it"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey Strathpeffer, England; begins "Blanco is fully licensed, / and has been for
years past."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Oban; begins "Yes; we are repeating Dr. Johnson's expedition"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to St. John Adcock See Laurence BibliographyB423, C2504, and C2529; purchased
12/92; begins "I hope I am not upsetting the make-up of The Bookman"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] London; begins "Not possible. Sybil Thorndike is / to take St. J. round"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring London; begins "My dear Thring / It is quite true that I did not broadcast"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Madeira; begins "We arrived safely yesterday (Tuesday the 30th) after"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Baron Palmstierna [draft] London; Baron Palmstierna was the Swedish Minister in London; Shaw sent a
similar letter to the Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy; begins
"May it please Your Excellency / The award of the Nobel prize for the year 1925
to"
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GBS : Envelopes addressed to Blanche Patch December 18, 1943; Ayot St. Lawrence; they seem to have been kept by Miss Patch
as receipts; one is marked "Fur Coat," the other "Re. Joe's operation."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey London; with explanatory note by Bernard F. Burgunder; begins "Dear
Martin-Harvey / The enclosed will serve all purposes. It does not bind you to /
produce Blanco if in the meantime you should get going with anything more
attractive"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey London; discusses costumes of Blanco; begins "Let the imagination play. There
never / was no such place nor no such people."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sydney Olivier, baron
Ramsden Stratford-on-Avon; begins "On Sunday I leave this place for home."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Liphook; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I am staying here with the"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] Sutherland; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / Ireland is passing through a
series"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Shand London; advice to a young writer; begins "Dear Mr. John Shand / You are in a
devil of a hurry, aren't you? I earned £5-14-9 by my pen in 9 years."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gertrude Burnett Ayot St. Lawrence; the postcard has a photograph of Shaw on the reverse side;
begins "I was so sorry I could not come to"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Falmouth; begins "The son is not the man his father was"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's? Ayot St. Lawrence; the address is to New York City, and seems to be to Shaw's
American publisher; begins "The book on Socialism - title: The Intelligent"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Hunt Helmsley Discusses the program for the first public London discussion of Mrs.
Warren's Profession; purchased 12/92; begins "My Dear C.H.H. / Here
is the proof."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Arthur Bourchier
[initialed] London; with notes by Dan Laurence and Bernard Burgunder; Bourchier presented
with Charles Macdona the 1st London production of Mrs. Warren's Profession and
played the role of Sir George Crofts; begins "My dear Bourchier / But for you I
don't know what would have happened"
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Blanche Patch London?; begins "You can charge the hospital fees and expenses to me"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch London? begins "Dear Blanche / You had better pay those expenses with your
own"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Sylvester Viereck London; begins "DearViereck/ I never lectured in my life about physical
culture"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
[initialed] London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / Do you remember my reading to you"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Stresa; begins "The £200 is for Travellers Cheques of"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey London; begins "My dear Sir John, I squeezed in at the Coliseum one night, and
was glad to find / a house that left the management nothing to complain of.
Blanco is / all right for you; and you are all right for Blanco."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Macdona Begins "My dear Macdona, Mine is a dog's life. Half the time I am"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Messrs Williams & Norgate Ltd. London; this is the carbon of the typescript; the corrections, initials, and
date are by Blanche Patch; begins "Dear Sir / I have no objection to the
inclusion of"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ashley Dukes [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; concerns his Candida; with typed
transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Ashley Dukes / I forgot to say
that the notion"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sydney Cockerell
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Cockerell / This accidental biography of
Warington Taylor is much more effective"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Oscar Swede Stresa Borromeo; Shaw's response to a typed questionnaire sent him by Swede,
with additional long note; begins "Remember my age - 71!"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mona Limerick [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; an actress, Mona Limerick was married to Ben Iden Payne, an
actor-manager; begins "I tried to get you on the phone this"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to H.M. Inspector of Taxes London; begins "Dear Sir, Pursuant to your JLF/3195 of the 20th June last,"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ashley Dukes [initialed] London; begins "The address is Miss Bertha Newcombe / Tilmore"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson London; postcard bearing photograph of Shaw; begins "Quite good. I read the lot
at a / gulp."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's London; Handwritten note on card with printed heading "With Bernard Shaw's
compliments"; found among letters received from Shaw by Brentano's; begins "I
have handed your suggestion to Constables"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Ebba, Lady Low Concerning the Swedish translation of The Intelligent Woman's Guide to
Socialism and Capitalism; with explanatory note by Bernard F.
Burgunder on separate leaf; begins "Dear Ebba / You had better tell Glydendal
and Bonnier"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to [?] Concerns the Berne Convention, dealing with internation copyright; begins "Sir,
It appears to us to be cause for very great regret"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Margaret Halstan Ayot St. Lawrence; with copy; postcard with photograph of Shaw, marked
"Copyright Robert de Smet Bruxelles"; begins "This is what I look like when
anyone / mentions"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Cap d'Antibes; begins "The Chesterton debate books arrived safely; but I
have"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney Cap d'Antibes; begins "Dear Mr. Tunney / On Tuesday next I leave this
address"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Geneva; begins "We leave Geneva on Saturday night and arrive"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney London; begins "Just to say-in case you are"
|
| 13 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Clarence Norman London; begins "Dear Clarence Norman / Your old friend G.D. has had a breakdown
and is very fragile-"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ellaline Terriss
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; an actress, Miss Terriss was the daughter of William
Terriss, an actor who died in 1897; See: SHAW PHOTOGRAPH Terriss, Ellaline;
begins "My dear Ellaline Terriss / This is a nice trick to play on an ancient
and broken man"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Albert Victor Baillie London; Shaw's views on homosexuality, addressed to the Dean of Windsor; with
explanatory note added on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder; with 5 leaves
of photocopies indicating the connection between this letter and The
Well of Lonelinessby Radclyffe Hall; begins "My dear Dean / I think
the letter is a leg-pull"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Unknown [initialed] London; on preprinted Shaw compliments card; purchased Sept. 13, 1994, Swann
Galleries; begins "What are all these about?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Maurice Baring London; note is reproduced as part of a typescript on "On Our First Meeting
with George Bernard Shaw," by Gene Tunney and his wife, "G.A. and Mrs. T.";
begins "Dear Maurice / Max Beerbohm and his wife are lunching with us today at"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Bernard Miall London; begins "Dear Mr. Bernard Miall / I am much obliged to you for letting
me know about the"
|
| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Hastings; begins "Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Webb want to go"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch Brioni; begins "Tell Kyllmann that there is no difficulty"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to "Signor J.N. Pasara" [Gene
Tunney] Brioni, Istria; included are the envelope addressed by Shaw, and an Autograph
Note initialed by Gene Tunney explaining Shaw's letter; begins "Dear Sir / I
appreciate your kind intention in"
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GBS : Autograph Notes Initialed: to [Blanche Patch] Brioni; I want to know what business Barbara [Major Barbara] has done during
its eight week's run.
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney Venice; with photocopies; begins "My dear Gene / We got a fright about you on
the way"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Albert Coates Ravenna; with his Autograph Manuscript Signed St. Joan: A Grand Opera, by
Albert Coates, May 5, 1929; bought from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. in January 1980;
begins "My dear Albert / How is Maritana - St. Joan getting on?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] Venice; begins "I have now secured my homeward tickets for"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to G.W. Bishop Malvern; with explanatory note on separate leaf; begins "Dear Bishop / I forgot
to say, in the course of our conversation yesterday, that the main oversight in
the criticisms of The Apple Cart "
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Malcom Morley Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Perhaps you had better send me the / rehearsal"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Robert S. Young London; on the subject of a National Theatre for England; with clipping from
The Times(October 28, 1929) in which the letter is quoted;
begins "Dear Mr. Young, The nation does not care tuppence about a National
Theatre"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Lady Gregory / The portable wireless has just"
|
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "If you can get onto Miss Lilian Dawson at the
National"
|
| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Graves London; includes typed transcript; begins "My dear Charles / My attendance at
your wedding, or at anybody's wedding, is out"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Mr. J. Chachik London; authorizing an edition in Hebrew of "The Guide" [ An Intelligent
Woman's Guide...? ] by Tarbuth Limited; begins "Gentlemen, I will
accept £10 for an edition of 2000 copies of"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Charles Benjamin Purdom London; envelope and photocopy of the Everyman article, "Is Shaw
Played Out?" by Purdom, included; letter deals with Granville Barker and the
production of Shaw's plays; begins "Dear Sir / I have to thank you for an
understanding article in Everyman"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Cliveden; begins "I feel sure I added something to the"
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GBS : Letter: to W.E. Stafford London; included with this letter is a three-leaf manuscript in Stafford's hand
concerning errors in The Admirable Bashville , and other
addressed by Stafford to Byrne Lackett; with note by Bernard F. Burgunder;
begins "I am much obliged to you for the correction in The Admirable Bashville
/ It is odd that all the most glaring"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney Shrewbury; Easter Sunday, 1930; begins "My dear Gene / The Cashel Byron
proposals are only blind snatches"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Begins "If a Mr. Wise rings up wanting to see"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mrs. Cecil Chesterton London; probably a reference to essay on Chesterton; See: Shaw, G.B. Typed
Manuscript Introduction Cecil Chesterton's Anti-Puritanism; begins "Dear Mrs.
Cecil Chesterton / Will the enclosed do? / I think your only risk of refusal
lies in G.K.C.'s pro-Polish propensities."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to the Editor of The Times Great Malvern; envelope addressed to G.W. Bishop; for other materials related
to The Barretts of Wimpole Street , see G.W. Bishop's manuscript
on the Malvern festival, and Shaw's letter to The Observerof
early Sept. 1930; begins "Sir, There seems to be a good deal of the sultry West
Indian"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to the Editor of The Observer Great Malvern; concerns the production of The Barretts of Wimpole
Street at Malvern; for related material see G.W. Bishop's manuscript
concerning the festival, and the copy of Shaw's letter to The
Times, 8/29/30; begins "Sir, On the 29th August The Times published
an extraordinary"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Harvey Hogan Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Sir / My great grandfather was Prosser Shaw's
grandfather"
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| 13 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to G.W. Bishop [initialed] London; begins "Dear Bishop / That stuff you sent me is not only an infamous
breach of confidence"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Murray [initialed] London; begins "I don't think any actor could beat Irving's Louis XI"
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Calendar and dealer's list The letters of Shaw to Dodd, Mead & Co. have been kept among the papers
with which they were received at Cornell in August 1987; these papers are the
incomplete but extensive correspondence file maintained by Dodd, Mead & Co.
on business relations with Shaw; added entry cards have been made for all items
other than Shaw's letters to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Max Pemberton
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ellen Terry Photocopy of the original in the possession of S. Phelps Platt, Jr. and
published in Laurence, Collected Letters,vol. 3; with typed
explanatory note by S. Phelps Platt on separate leaf
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Written on Typed Letter Signed to Shaw from Dodd, Mead & Co. on October 10,
1925
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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| 14 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. [fragment] Photocopy; carbon copy of transcription and Shaw's autograph, clipped from the
original letter?, inside envelope; with notes in hand of Dan H. Laurence; gift
of Dan H. Laurence, see: his Typed Letter Signed to J. Tyler of February 25,
1989; begins "Dear Dodds both, Chase, Mead's Ghost, Lewis, old Uncle Tom"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Written on Typed Letter Signed to Shaw from Dodd, Mead & Co. on Nov. 16,
1938
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Gabriel Pascal [fragment]
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Autograph Manuscript: Cross-reference
slips
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Under separate cover we are sending to you today your six author's
copies of the Florence Farr Letters"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to W.P. Watt Begins "I am returning herewith the suggested agreement for the Florence Farr
book, duly signed."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus Begins "We enclose our check for $1,308.24, payable to the Irving Trust
Company"
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Document: Contract... [draft] For the book Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats;Includes
typed explanatory note on separate leaf
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Autograph Manuscript: Notes on sales of Shaw
books
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus Begins "We enclose our check for $713.59 payable to the Irving Trust
Company"
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| 14 |
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F.S. Crofts : Typed Document: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Royalty statement
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| 14 |
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F.S. Crofts : Typed Document: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Royalty statement
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Our deepest sympathy and affection."; signed Frank Dodd
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus Begins "We enclose our check for $983.53 payable to the Irving Trust
Company"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: Internal memo Begins "Memorandum to Mr. Dodd / In reading these proofs of Mr. Shaw's book I
found a great many mistakes"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Page proofs your new book received from constable stop"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "No certainly not the proofs are unfinished uncorrected and were sent to
you without my knowledge"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Thank you so much for your cable."
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Very keen about Everybody's Political WhatWhat stop"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus Begins "We enclose our check for $1272.03 payable to the Irving Trust
Company."
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Six copies of our edition of Everybody's Political What's
What?were mailed you on October 13th"
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus Begins "We enclose our check for $904.06 payable to the Irving Trust
Company"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "The Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., is desirous of including a
volume of your plays for distribution to the Armed Forces of the United
States."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Thank you for your prompt response to our letter requesting your
approval of the publication of certain of your plays"
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| 14 |
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Brentano, Lowell : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Have secured reprint deal in accordance with recent conversation"
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| 14 |
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GBS : Document: Printed card "With Bernard Shaw's
compliments"
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: Internal memo Begins "The Shaw letter, as I read it, is a very clear invitation to Dodd Mead
& Company to publish the Shaw books at $1.00."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "I hope you will forgive the delay in replying to your letter of a
number of weeks ago concerning reprint editions of your books."
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "May we publish this summer a selection of autobiographical material
from your prefaces and other writings"
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| 14 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "I object strongly but cannot refuse you and will send you material not
otherwise accessible"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Delighted with prospect of additional material but urge all possible
speed because of current manufacturing delays to meet summer deadline"
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Summer catalog going to press and salesmen setting out"
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| 14 |
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GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Envelope to Dodd, Mead &
Co.
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "The material you asked us to wait for was some new autobiographical
material which we could use together with a selection of autobiographical
excerpts from your other writings"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Document: Invoices to Shaw
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Patch, Blanche : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "Is it possible for you to procure and send me a copy of Green Dolphin
Country by Elizabeth Goudge, and debit Mr. Bernard Shaw's account with the
cost?"
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Kyllmann, Otto : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "In answer to your letter of the 24th June."
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "The entire staff of Dodd Mead and Company sends you greetings"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: Internal memo Begins "Memorandum to Mr. H.C. Lewis / Mr. E.H. Dodd, Jr. / Just as a matter of
written record, I think we ought to consider for near-future publication the
idea of a Shaw omnibus"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw With two carbon copies; begins "While we understandthat you are turning over
business arrangements in connection with your literary affairs to the
Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, nevertheless I
venture to approach you on a matter on which I am sure you will wish to make
your own decision."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "The enclosed is a revised version of the Proposal for Shaw Reader which
should have accompanied our letter of October 22nd."
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| 14 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "Sorry impossible my contracts with Penguin and Oxford University Press
forbid"
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "We were greatly disappointed over your cable concerning the proposed
Shaw Reader."
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| 14 |
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Winsten, Stephen : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "The American edition of G.B.S.90 has just reached me."
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| 14 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "Reader suggests schoolbook why not two omnibus volumes of all the plays
and all the prefaces instead of picking out the plums"
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| 14 |
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Stephen Winsten Begins "It was a great pity that we had no time to consult you when preparing
the American edition of G.B.S. 90."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Thanks for your cable. We already have two omnibus volumes of your
plays - Nine Plays and Six Plays - and another one in contemplation for a later
period."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "'An omnibus selection' is a contradiction in terms."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Document: Invoice to Shaw
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "This is just to tell you that we despatched a copy of William
Morris As I Knew Himto Mr. Andrew Low"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "We have become reconciled most reluctantly, at least for the present
time, to your decision against our proposal for a Shaw Reader."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "Don't engage anyone to edit the autobiographical collection."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Thank you for your post card. We certainly shall not let anyone 'edit'
the material."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Mr. Shaw has perhaps showed you my recent correspondence with him
concerning a collection of autobiographical writings selected from his
works."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Otto Kyllmann Begins "Since I last wrote you about out various thoughts for a Shaw anthology
we have had a good deal of correspondence with Mr. Shaw and have finally
projected a volume of autobiographical selections from his works."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "Thank you for your letter of February 3rd."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Your prompt letter is appreciated. We have given careful thought to
your proposal and are anxious to explore it further."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Includes carbon copy and typed transcription on separate leaves; begins "Thank
you for your letter of the 18th. Re Outside Contributions - I have in mind only
a few:"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "We have been doing a good deal of thinking about the proposed selection
of Shaw autobiographical material as a result of your letter of the
twenty-fifth."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. "Cable decision appreciated."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein "Letter mailed yesterday."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. With typed transcription of postcard and carbon copy; begins "Thank you for
your cable and letter of March 19th. May I point out that there will be plenty
of unpublished material in my projected Autobiography and that there had been a
selection made of the Shaw letters"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Thank you for your interesting letter. It makes matters a lot
clearer."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "We have indeed declined the publication of The Miraculous Birth
of Language by Prof. Richard Albert Wilson."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "Here is a first rough draft of a contents list for the new book which
you might like to call "How I became GBS."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "I prefer annual accounts;"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "We have been studying the table of contents you sent us for the
selection of autobiographical writings of Shaw."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Thank you for forwarding on the letter from Carlton Lake."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "The owner of the Shaw Letter sold out of the Hogan Estate,"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "The form letter suggesting payment of royalties once a year was, of
course, sent to you in error, as it certainly does not apply to your
account."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "It does seem that we have been a long time deciding on what each of us
felt this book should be, but I am glad to say that I think your letter of
April twenty-eighth at last clears it up."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "Fred: / Please give me a check for $250.00 payable to F.E.
Loewenstein"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Thank you for sending back the letter signed, and your ammendment is
quite satisfactory except that we would like to handle Canada if that can
possible be arranged."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "I have been instructed by Mr. E.H. Dodd, Jr. to arrange to send you
$250.00 of which is the amount of the fee due you in connection with your work
on the book of Shaw letters."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "In accordance with your instructions of June 12th, we have this day
arranged with our bank to forward their draft in American dollars"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Thank you for your note. We will assume, then, that Canadian rights are
ours"
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Includes typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Many thanks for cheque
duly received at Westminster Bank."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. [excerpt] Begins "As to the projected book of autobiographic sketches, for which I have
written some new pages, I propose"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Thank you for your post card. Your news is most encouraging and we have
had a note from Mr. Shaw as well,"
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Includes typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Reporting progress: From
the material submitted by me to Mr. Shaw, he has so far selected about 57,000
words to which are added about 5000 newly written words."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "I am replying to your letter of the 10th of August in reference to the
royalty accountings which we have been sending to the British Society of
Authors."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to William H. Wise Begins "Dr. F.E. Loewenstein, who is preparing a volume of Bernard Shaw
material for us writes that he is trying to secure a group of press
cuttings"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Messrs. William Wise tell me that the person in their firm who knows
about those press clippings happens to be in London right now,"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "The number of words selected and approved according to your latest
report of August 20 is indeed encouraging, but I must say I rather view with
alarm your apparent emphasis on unpublished material and the proposed inclusion
of art criticism."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Blanche Patch Begins "I am afraid I don't know the Pantagraph Press of Bloomington, Ill."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Includes typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Thank you very much for
your letters of August 19th, 27th, 28th. I have written to Miss Elsie
Guthman."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "We are sending you under separate cover six copies of your Two
Plays - Geneva and Good King Charles -published here in one volume
in our uniform set."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to William H. Wise Begins "Mr. John Crawley suggested I write you about the following matter."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Your letter of September 3 brings surprising news but you make it sound
like very good news."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "Thank you very much for your letter of the 10th."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Thank you for your information about completion of the book."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Includes typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Mr. Shaw has finished
the following: Chapter: Apology"
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "Thank you for your postcard. They are always welcome, and this one
sounds interesting."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to William H. Wise Begins "I wonder if my letter to you of September 5, 1947 could have gone
astray."
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Batson, Eric J. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "Dear Sirs, I thought you might be interested to see the brief note on
your recent publication of "Man & Superman" in the enclosed bulletin."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "It seems to be difficult to get in touch with the Kennerleys, although
the additional information you gave me should be a great help."
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Kennerley, Mitchell : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co. Begins "Please note my address as above. If Mr. Shaw will refer to Dan Rider's
Book 'My Adventures with George Bernard Shaw', he will find that Mr. Rider lost
out on the clippings."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mitchell Kennerley Begins "Many thanks for your very clear explanation of the mystery of the
missing press clippings."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein Begins "We've been in touch with Mitchell Kennerley, and he believes that the
press clippings which we are looking for are not the ones which Rider was
interested in"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "Dear Dodds, Englosed is my latest play, for the present a deed
secret."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "The Autobiographic Scraps & Sketches is being put through with all
possible expedition for you."
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Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead &
Co.
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GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Ireland by Clipper One photocopy of The New Yorker article "The Talk of the Town" dated July 31,
1948; and one photocopy of an article in The Saturday Review titled "'As
corrected' by G. Bernard Shaw"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "Drown your designer. There is nothing so ugly in print as a combination
of type with ordinary handwriting."
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| 14 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "We are at cross purposes."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "Yes, Self Sketchesdoes, as you say, come trippingly off
the tongue, and I will protest no longer."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "Somehow Self Sketchestout court, is unattractive: it
needs another word to give it a swing."
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Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw Begins "We much prefer Self Sketches, short though it may
be."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Typed on printed correspondence card: Laurence D3; begins "This must be stuck
to uncompromizingly."
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| 14 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "There are two questions on which you are pressing me: both
difficult."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "As you are still infatuated about $5 Selections, there is no reason why
I should not indulge you,"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Begins "I do not understand the economies of this Book Club business"
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GBS : Letter: to Lord Alfred Douglas Venice; begins "Dear Lord Alfred Douglas / It is a pity that Wilde still tempts
men to write Lives of him. If ever there was a writer whose prayer to posterity
might well have been 'Read my works; and let my life alone' it was Oscar."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Paris; begins "After a string of misunderstandings"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Paris; Begins "The cold turns out to be congestion of the right lung;"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Paris; begins "It's now settled that we return on"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Mr. Hieatt London; Shaw discusses his complaints about a garbage dump; includes
explanatory note on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Hieatt / I am much obliged
to you for sending me the letter of the"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Moscow; begins "Your card, not stamped, arrived"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to ? [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "What in hell is this?"
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GBS : Envelope addressed to Henry Kiell Ayliff in Shaw's
hand
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GBS : Letter Signed: to Lennox Robinson Printed circular letter, headed "The Irish Academy of Letter," signed by Shaw
and by W.B. Yeats, and addressed in Yeats' hand to Lennox Robinson; bought at
Sotheby's, NY, Dec. 11, 1989; begins "Dear Sir, We have at present in Ireland
no organisation"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Capetown; begins "The Holden account is right, as he made"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Commander Newton
[initialed] Knysna; See: Pearson, Hesketh. Bernard Shaw: His Life and
Personality.Methuen, 1961. p. 390; begins "My dear Newton /
Charlotte is mending and can even crawl about a little; but I don't"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Knysna C.P., South Africa; Begins "Dear Blanche / Any travelling just now is
out of hte question for Mrs."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Commander Newton
[initialed] Knysna; begins "My dear Newton / At last I think I have some firm news. After
ups and"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to H.G. Wells [initialed] Warwick Castle, R.M.S.; begins "My dear H.G. / The Cape Fabian Society has just
presented me with a copy"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Begins "I used up all my writing blocks on the voyage and cannot"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; includes copy on separate leaf; begins "Dear Sir / As I am old and out
of date I have not the privilege"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear Mr. Farleigh / Good: I think you can make a real job of
it."
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "That is all right, of course; so / go ahead."
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| 15 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to John Farleigh London; begins "Will you lunch with me at Whitehall Court"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] The "book" mentioned is probably A Man Must Fight,by Gene
Tunney; London; begins "My dear Gene, I have read the book. Have you ever read
the autobiographies"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh With copy; London; begins "Dear Mr. Farleigh / Yes: the portrait cover of
course."
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh With copy; London; begins "Dear Mr. Farleigh / Don't bother about me: it is
your job"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / This chap is wrong: he is standing at
ease"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / As to the beanstalk I could only
express"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to John Farleigh Great Malvern; begins "Just catching the post. Will write when you"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Malvern; begins "Dear John Farleigh / Many apologies for my delay."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to John Farleigh With copy; Malvern; begins "Dear John Farleigh / You will see by the
enclosed"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Malvern; begins "I bought some shampoo powders in"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Malvern; begins "These are now perfect; but I want to suggest / a trifling"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Malvern; begins "Dear John Farleigh / The enclosed, just cut out of Punch"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Malvern; begins "Dear John Farleigh / That has done the trick perfectly."
|
| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [?] Willett Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Mr. Willett / I mislaid this play: it has only
just turned up. I shall not steal it;"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / Call it £200 in round figures"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Allan Wade London; begins "NO: I'm a practitioner, not a professor. / Besides, you'd have
to take the Albert Hall"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / I don't think it would do any harm to
print"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I have only just received Micah / and Pavloff"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "It is Sunday; and the letter / containing the"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I think the carrion bird / was a mistake of
mine."
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I see no harm in exhibiting a / selection"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Page 58 is horrid. I shall / write in 20 lines"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / At last the book has gone to press."
|
| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / Many thanks for the proofs."
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| 15 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Colonel Lynch London or Ayot St. Lawrence; on physics; begins "Dear Colonel Lynch / As I am
not a mathematician, propositions expressed in algebraic"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "We start for our cruise round the"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Naples; begins "Please make a careful transcript of"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Empress of Britain; begins "My dear Blanche / Everything has gone so far"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "This is an indication that you have hit / French taste"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Frank F. Bennell [initialed] Handwritten note in Shaw's hand at bottom; London; begins "Mr. Bernard Shaw,
who is not and never has been a / professional lecturer, is now obliged to
restrict his appearances / as a public speaker to special and exceptional
occasions,"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. With notes in hand of Dan H. Laurence; gift of Dan H. Laurence; see his Typed
Letter Signed to J. Tyler of Feb. 25, 1989; London; begins "Dear Dodds both,
Chase, Mead's Ghost, Lewis, old Uncle Tom"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Requests poster design for On The Rocks;London; begins "Dear
John Farleigh / Are you any good at posters?"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "My dear Farleigh / I am horrified: I thought I had sent"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "I nearly died when I was told / that 'the printer had'"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / The enclosed is all I can get out of
the"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Edgar Jepson Jr. Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I got the book safely in September;"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Begins "approaching Plymouth / Dead calm sea so far."
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gregg M. Sinclair RMS Rangitane; begins "Dear Mr. Sinclair / Thanks for the photographs. I
have"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Sydney Carroll London; begins "Dear Sydney Carroll / What can you do for me in the way of
dates?"
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| 15 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sydney Carroll Malvern; begins "The experiment with popular prices at the Winter Garden was
not very encouraging"
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. [shorthand] Includes carbon copy of the transcription; London; begins "Dear Dodd Mead / I
am so bewildered by the unexpected turns American publishing"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to J.B. Booth With dealer's description about contents; purchased 12/94; London; begins "Dear
Mr. Booth / I am glad you destroyed the letters."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Stanley Unwin London; begins "Dear Stanley Unwin / The twelve and sixpenny omnibus has been
sold out for a long time."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Simon & Schuster, publishers
[draft of cable] The date appears to be in the hand of Blanche Patch; begins "Impossible the
deal is off"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I have nothing to do with your Income Tax:"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Sir Francis Younghusband Corrections in the hand of Blanche Patch; with explanatory note on separate
leaf; begins "Dear Sir Francis / I start for a trip round South America on the
16th, and am not / due back until the 1st April."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to I.W. Prior London; begins "Dear Sir, Do not let yourself be drawn into an argument."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Balboa; begins "Dear B.P. / I find that I forgot to tear off"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Sydney Carroll Includes explanatory note on separate leaf; London; begins "Dear Sydney Carroll
/ Many thanks; but don't waste two first night stalls on an extinct
pressman"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch Begins "In the Red Sea / All well so far. Letters received duly at"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Victor Barnowsky London; Dear Mr. Barnowsky/ All the directors who have suffered in the
abominable persecution in Germany
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as the letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for
the B.B.C.; London; begins "I have this record. It is quite"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to I.W. Prior The letter was typed and signed by Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch; London;
begins "Dear Mr. Prior / Mr. Bernard Shaw asks me to say that it is
impossible"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to ? [initialed] The clipping advertises an amateur performance of Shaw's You Never Can
Tellin Egypt; includes a note by Bernard F. Burgunder; London;
begins "I have written to Routledge that the matter"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Sydney Carroll London; begins "My dear Sydney Carroll / Have you ever asked yourself this
momentous question?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [Dr.?] Forbath Shaw discusses his "public" and "private" handwriting, giving examples of both;
London; begins "Dear [Dr.] Forbath / My secretary has discovered the enclosed
soiled scraps of my handwriting / 40 years"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hannen Swaffer Primarily on the Labour Party and British Politics; Malvern; begins "Dear
Hannen Swaffer / I must send you a belated"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as the letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for
the B.B.C.; Malvern; begins "The main suggestion that occurs to"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hannen Swaffer On the British party system; Malvern; begins "Dear Hannen Swaffer / I am kept
so busy here that it ends"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] Malvern; begins "We shall be wandering in Wales until the"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] Malvern; begins "We shall be wandering in Wales until the"
|
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as the letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for
the B.B.C.; London; begins "May I have a look at these scripts first?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as the letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for
the B.B.C.; London; begins "May I have a look at these scripts first?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney Letter is on the sheet bearing printed instructions "From London to Ayot St.
Lawrence By Road"; London; begins "My dear Gene / We shall be at Ayot as above
until Thursday the 22nd."
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GBS : Typed Letter: to I.W. Prior Typed and signed by Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch; London; begins "Dear Sir,
Mr. Bernard Shaw asks me to say that the practice"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company This letter is on the same sheet as the letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for
the B.B.C.; London; begins "Yes. But unless you can get"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Macy Concerns the projected Limited Editions Club edition of Charles Dickens'
Great Expectations;London; begins "Dear Mr. Macy / It is
utterly impossible to print my preface"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "No 1 absolutely barred. I agree with the / lady who"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Sidmouth; begins "Dear John Farleigh / I am corresponding with Macy"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ada Tyrrell With explanatory note on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder; London; begins
"My dear Addie, You certainly have had a narrow escape from"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to I. William Prior Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "No. Yes. Please delete which is not applicable."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I am off to Eastbourne for all / next week"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company The B.B.C. wants to broadcast Act III from The Millionairess;
this letter is on the same sheet as the letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for
the B.B.C.; London; begins "No: I absolutely bar anything short of a complete
broadcast"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear John Farleigh / Words cannot express my"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for the
B.B.C.; on the same sheet is an additional note by Shaw in a difference color
ink; London; begins "O.K."
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for the
B.B.C.; Sidmouth; begins "O.K. The cathedral scene"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to A.J. Smith [initialed] Includes note of explanation by Blanche Patch; Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Very
kind of you: but it must"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[Hamilton Marr] [initialed] Notes by Shaw on a B.B.C. production of Saint Joan; Ayot St.
Lawrence; begins "Schools may mean either sixth"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Vernon Bartlett
[initialed] London; note on one of Shaw's specially printed postcards; with a note by
Bernard F. Burgunder; begins "We are both quite well (for our ages) and Mrs.
Shaw bids me not forget"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "I had a big job to finish and / had to forget everything"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr
for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. But in future, if I am to"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for the
B.B.C.; begins "No objection."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to James Habgood London; begins "Dear Sir, I remember your father very well; but we were not
in"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr
for the B.B.C.; also attached is a note by Blanche Patch[?] on one of Shaw's
compliments cards; begins "Send it to them by all means."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr
for the B.B.C.; begins "Why this appalling cut in"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr
for the B.B.C.; begins "Hooray! Terms accepted. Go ahead."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh London; begins "I have got muddled about those / drawings. I held back
those"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Geneva is finished as far as the / dialogue is
concerned."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sydney Carroll
[initialed] London; begins "What about the third act, which requires a practicable
sea?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh [initialed] London; begins "The missing drawings have / been found."
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Shaw, Charlotte (Payne-Townshend) : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry
Kiell Ayliff London; begins "I am instructed"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff London; dictated to Charlotte F. Shaw, and written by her; begins "Dear Ayliff
/ This afternoon I sent over a copy of Geneva"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London; begins "On page 94, line 10, change / the word lake to park."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London; begins "I strongly approve of the Lohengrin / idea."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London?; begins "My dear Ayliff / Don't bother to call- unless you'd like
to."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "In reply to your AP/RGW"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "As much music as you like"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler
for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K.; but tell the announcer that I am
professionally"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Droitwich; begins "Please send me the last"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Droitwich; begins "Dear John Farleigh / Nothing more exactly right"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Droitwich; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton
Marr for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. Go ahead; but the last"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Macy London; with this are filed 3 printed items, all concerning the Limited
Editions Club edition of Back to Methuselah:1) The
Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club,July 1939; 2)
With the advice of G.B.S.;3) "Back to Methuselah": an
announcement by the Leicester Galleries of an exhibit of John Farleigh's
drawings
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; the second card orders Miss Patch to disregard the
information on the first; begins "I am too old to learn new"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence?; begins "Dear Ayliff / This is a masterly cut if you
want"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London; begins "No: let Flanco alone."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London; begins "If you are satisfied, I shant / intrude,"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London?; begins "My dear Ayliff / The enclosed is out-and-out important."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr
for the B.B.C.; begins "This raises the question of the translation."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff London?; begins "Dear Ayliff, What a horrible play! Why had I to"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I forgot the stage staff this time."
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Gladys Storey [shorthand draft] "Kate" is Kate Perugini, the daughter of Charles Dickens. The story is of
Dickens's relationship with his wife; also included are 2 typed transcriptions
of the draft by Blanche Patch, a Typed Letter Signed from Dan Laurence to Miss
Patch requesting a transcription, and a typed copy of a letter from Kate
Perugini to Shaw requesting an interview for Miss Storey (October 1927); begins
"Dear Miss Story [sic] / As Kate decided to tell the story that way, told so it
must be in any"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to I.W. Prior London; the letter was typed and signed by Shaw's secretary, Blanche Patch;
begins "Dear Sir, Mr. Bernard Shaw asks me to say that he has no idea"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London; begins "Flanco will be all right for a long / time yet."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [fragment] Text concerns Henry Arthur Jones; included with this facsimile are a letter
addressed to Shaw by Jones's daughter, and a notation by Jones himself
concerning Shaw; begins "The clique that abhorred me is long since dead; and as
I cannot find the name of the club"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr
for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K.; but you will"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London; begins "It is an astonishing fact that I / have never seen S.H."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London; begins "The copy you sent me does not / contain the cuts."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company London; Shaw gives some suggestions on casting a performance of
Candidaby the B.B.C.; this letter is on the same sheet as a
letter to Shaw from Hamilton Marr for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. Phyllis Neilson
Terry and"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter from R.G. Walford for the
B.B.C.; begins "Tell them that they must not"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ethel Shaw (Mrs. Gordon Walters)
[initialed] London; begins "My dear Ethel / We must bear in mind that under the new
inheritance laws a mother inherits before a sister"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Herbert Whiteley London; with holograph postscript and marginal note; begins "Dear Sir, In my
father's time brass instruments were"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "They have just sent me a proof of / the
portrait."
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Malcom Morley [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "What about Canada? I am being pressed to tour
it"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh [initialed] London; begins "O.K. Send the block off. Splendid."
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Frinton on Sea; begins "Sorry I forgot the enclosed. Better keep a"
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
Hamilton Marr for the B.B.C.; begins "Probably it has not yet been
delivered."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
Hamilton Marr for the B.B.C.; begins "Not enough for half the play."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Kiell Ayliff
[initialed] London?; begins "Dear Ayliff, I have just rung you up but can't get any"
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
Hamilton Marr for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. for fifteen guineas. The
Government"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Charles Benjamin Purdom London; begins "Dear Mr. Purdom, I have to thank you for the copy you have sent
me of the proposal for an Actor's Theatre as part of the work of Equity."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] London; begins "Charlotte has written you all the"
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to I.W. Prior [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Sorry; but I am very old, and forget
everything."
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler
for the B.B.C.; begins "NO. The situations will make no"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Saul Colin [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear D. Colin / You must not act as my agent: I have
no need of one"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Mr. Crawley London; Shaw was considering dropping his American publishers, Dodd, Mead &
Co.; with a note by Bernard Burgunder; begins "Dear Mr. Crawley / You have
already received my cable of the 20th May."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler
for the B.B.C.; begins "There are 52 pages of narrative and dialogue"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Edith Craig [draft] London; Edith Craig was the daughter of Ellen Terry; includes one leaf of
explanation by Karl Goedecke; begins "My dear Edy / The ancient Pagans, who had
a much keener sense of public decency"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dorothy Somerset London; photocopy of a correspondence card; with explanatory note added on
separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence; begins "You can hardly expect an agent, who /
lives by his commission"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dorothy Somerset London; photocopy of a correspondence card; with explanatory note added on
separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence; begins "You can hardly expect an agent, who /
lives by his commission"
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler
for the B.B.C.; begins "Disgraceful delay. I am sorry."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler
for the B.B.C.; begins "A guinea a minute."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "Two guineas: a guinea per 100 words"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gertrude Burnett London or Ayot?; Miss Burnett was evidently a teacher and producer of drama;
begins "Dear Gertrude Burnett, It is one of the misfortunes of the war that it
has taken"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Donald S. Robertson Ayot or London?; concerns Housman and Galsworthy; with explanatory note on
separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder; begins "Dear Mr. Robertson, I met
Housman only once in Westminster Abbey at the Hardy"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to I.W. Prior Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Sir, The best way is not to protest. Wait until
the war is"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to the Editor, [?] Ayot St. Lawrence; with holograph corrections; concerns British bombing policy,
specifically bombardment of continental cities; begins "Cui Bono? / Sir / First
may we make clear that though we are about to propose an arrangement with the
Axis"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. Four guineas."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson London; with two notes of reference on separate leaves by Bernard F. Burgunder;
begins "In finishing the story of Aveling by saying that I / had known only 2
equally conscienceless men, a colonel and a clergyman, I quite forgot the
Reverend Harold Davidson."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "If all you want is the 38 words beginning
'I believe in Michael Angelo"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hugh Westoby Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Plate arrived safely. Quite / comfortable so
far."
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed fragment] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "...color and charm the color of skin
does not"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; with photocopy and typed transcript; this letter is on the
same sheet as a letter to Shaw from B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins
"Elizabeth means nothing to me. / I am too"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "Yes, if you can get"
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GBS : Written Letter Signed: to Ernest Esdaile Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Quite a vivid little sketch"; additional items
include typed mock-up of a flier advertising Esdaile's book, inscribed by Shaw
in red ink and typed note from Esdaile "A SUGGESTION", inscribed and signed by
Shaw
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Elizabeth C. Yeats London; photocopy only; begins "Dear Mrs. Yeats / Do you think it would be
possible to make a private edition of it? How / many of the 500 copies can
you"
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to F.R. Brown Jr. Ayot St. Lawrence; in this postcard Shaw describes Hitler as "a very dangerous
madman"; begins "It is true that the high moral games"
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| 16 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company (B.H.
Alexander) Cliveden, Taplow, Bucks; reply to a letter of August 8, 1941 from B.H.
Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "No harm done. Fee £5-5-0
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GBS : Envelope addressed to Blanche Patch Maidenhead, England
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; discussion of Saint Joan;this letter is on
the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "I
know only 5 of the cast, being"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; Shaw objects to a broadcast of The Chocolate
Soldier.; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "I understand that the holders of the
copyright"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
J.E.M. Waters[?] for the B.B.C.; begins "I must charge something as a matter
of"
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GBS : Typed Letter: to the Prime Minister Petition for a Civil List pension for the widow of G. Herbert Thring, former
secretary of the Society; with a note by Bernard Burgunder; begins "Dear Prime
Minister, We the undersigned members of the Society of Authors"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; the letter is in response to a letter from M.T. Candler for
the B.B.C.; begins "In reply to your AP/MTC dated the 9th"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ada Tyrrell Barnet, England; begins "I am still alive and very apologetic / for staying so
late."
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "£36-15-0 (thirtyfive guineas)
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Georgina (Gillmore)
Musters Ayot St. Lawrence; with note by Bernard F. Burgunder on separate leaf; begins
"As our people here must have a / holiday we are"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Cliveden; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T.
Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "I object violently. The broadcast"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from S.
McGrath for the B.B.C.; begins "I have no recollection of this; but send it
to"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. for 4 guineas"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this note appears in the body of a letter to Shaw from B.H.
Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. Say a guinea a minute with a
maximum"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to James Habgood Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "After nearly seventy years I remember"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. Note that my powers are limited to
my"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "I am sorry to upset your program; but
this"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence?; concerns jacket design for Everybody's Political
What's What;begins "Dear Theodora / Don't be excited; you are not
being commissioned to redecorate the Sistine Chapel"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Theodora / The enclosed explain themselves /
The blank form is in the first rank"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ethel Shaw (Mrs. Gordon Walters)
[initialed] London; begins "Dear Ethel / We have been in London since the 26th July"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to William Maxwell
[initialed] London; Shaw describes Charlotte's (his wife) funeral; begins "All ended at
Golders Green"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch Ayot St. Lawrence?; begins "Alas! All the clothes have gone."
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Gordon Reynolds Walters
[shorthand] Letter in Pitman shorthand; with typed transcript, apparently made by Blanche
Patch; begins "Dear Mr. Walters, The proposed marriage of a gentleman of 70
with a lady"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from S. McGrath
for the B.B.C.; begins "No fee. The extract, in"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "You must be rolling in money to plunge / into"
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Charles Kay Ogden [initialed] London; holograph corrections and additions; discussion of language
simplification; begins "My dear Ogden / Wake up, man: wake up. / You have
utterly misunderstood my letter and missed the / point of it."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J. Robertson Scott Ayot St. Lawrence; with explanatory note by Dan H. Laurence; begins "I never
spoke to Stead in my life, nor even saw him except once at a public
meeting."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is in response to a request from B.H. Alexander
of the B.B.C.; begins "My secretary tells me that I never"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mrs. M.S. Wileman Ayot St. Lawrence; Shaw on the art of education; begins "The quotation is from
The Revolutionist's Handbook"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Of course this is an outrageous extravagance."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Marie Bergin Ayot St. Lawrence; postcard bears slight water damage; begins "You are better
off than I was / eighty years"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from S. McGrath?
for the B.B.C.; begins "Five guineas. I will send a line"
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence?; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
S. McGrath for the B.B.C.; begins "This won't do at all. Never cry stinking
fish."
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
M.T. Candler for the B.B.C.; begins "I am all in favor of the story being"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "By all means do what you can / I had a talk about it
with you father yesterday"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Theodora / Maxwell is clamoring for that jacket
/ Don't try to improve it"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "Is the broadcast to be in English or
Chinese?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Otto Kyllmann [shorthand] Includes a typed transcript; the draft is on the reverse of a letter from
Kyllmann to Shaw; Otto Kyllmann was with Constable & Co.; begins "Dear O.K.
/ I am not at all convinced that 20,000 more What's What will be needed."
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Clare / Forgive the orgy of bullying bad
manners in which I indulged on Sunday / Its intention was friendly but as it
did not produce"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "Is the broadcast to be in English or
Chinese?"
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Bertha Newcombe Ayot St. Lawrence; purchased from Swann Galleries, February 2, 1995; includes
one 10 shillings note and 1 photo of Mrs. Shaw; begins "My dear Bertha / the
ten shillings is for / Ann, if she still exists."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed & Typed Letter Signed: to Lawrence
Smith Includes 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 7 Typed Letters Signed; Quaritch,
8/03
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "...for the Shavian News design / This is the fee I
mentioned to your mother"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Theodora / The enclosed draft of the letter
which should accompany your design"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from S.
McGrath[?] for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. No charge"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed & Autograph Letter: to John Wardrop Includes handwritten and typed copies; both copies appear to be transcripts,
made perhaps by Blanche Patch; begins "Your letter is an alarming one: I
perceive that I am ruining you,"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "At Wardrop's earnest request I / sent him a few"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Eleanor O'Connell Shaw apparently sent this copy to Miss Patch with his letter to her of the same
day, for her information. The letter is to an older woman with whom young John
Wardrop was consorting and whom he had passed off as his wife to Shaw,
according to Dan H. Laurence; begins "He proved impossible. He was too young,
too excitable."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Blanche Patch Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Blanche, Wardrop has just burst in on"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is a response to a request from B.H. Alexander
for the B.B.C.; begins "In reply to your 03/CT/BHA dated"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to British Broadcasting Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "You cannot be tied down unless you
tie"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Telegram to Time and Tide
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] This letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from Mary Somerville for
the B.B.C.; begins "If the extract from C&C is really to illustrate a
lecture, it is fair quotation, to"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to F.E. Loewenstein
[initialed] London; with note on separate leaf; begins "If you are writing to Felix Grendon
tell him"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch Ayot St. Lawrence; note of instruction accompanying some work to be done (not
included); begins "Please fair copy this on green & yellow as usual /
for"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Allan Wade Ayot St. Lawrence; inscribed on verso of photo of Shaw; with envelope; begins
"Dear Mr. Allan Wade / I am deeply indebted to you for the corrections, and
hope that they may no"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; text concerns preliminary study for the statue of Saint Joan
which Clare Winsten was to sculpt for Shaw; begins "My dear Clare / What an
incorrigible megalomaniac you are! Do you suppose I want a white stone ghost of
Joan"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Note: Is quite correct, . . . Concerns Shaw's will, and the trusteeship of the same; with a note at bottom,
"Above, after interview with Mr. Thrupp, of Public Trustee Office."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Blanche, You have given me a jolt at
last"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Theodora / I want you to make a private note
that the film bargain is not a sound one"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co. Photocopy, with notes added in the hand of Dan H. Laurence; gift of Dan H.
Laurence, January 1989; begins "Dear Dodds, I have to thank you for the
accounts and"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company Ayot St. Lawrence; "C&C" is Caesar and Cleopatra; this
letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler for the
B.B.C.; begins "Having now heard the film of C&C, I might"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting
Company This letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from M.T. Candler for the
B.B.C.; begins "No. These scenes"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
Val Gielgud for the B.B.C.; begins "Splendid in its entirety, but"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to William Rowbottom London; with this letter is filed Rowbottom's original letter to Shaw
concerning suicide and copy of Shaw's response; begins "Dear Sir / Killing
yourself is a matter for your own judgement / Nobody can prevent you; and if
you are convinced"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "These 15" broadcasts are no use to
me."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the reverse side of a letter to Shaw from
B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "As to Italy and The Dark Lady, O.K."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to ? [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence[?]; with a photocopy and typed transcript; advice on casting
for Don Juan in Hell; begins "I am told that you intend / to
make Don Juan"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Clare / The enclosed card and cheque will
see you through as far as casting is concerned"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Mrs. Winsten / It having been agreed between us
to decorate the dell in my garden with a statue of Joan of Arc"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to W.G.C. Gundry [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Gervinus and all that lot are, as to Shakespeare,
unreadable bardolators."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Georgina (Gillmore) Musters
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; for discussion of this letter and related material see
Bernard Burgunder's Typed Manuscript Study of 46 Volumes; begins "I should have
said that Lucy / sold all this"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney London; begins "My dear Gene, I have just picked up your address from a letter
your wrote to"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to ? [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; purchased from Remember When Auctions, Inc., November 1993;
written on Shaw's printed calling card; begins "My job is to answer question,
not to ask them."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Mrs. St. Clair Stobart London; with commentary on the "hopeless" nature of any attempt to revise the
Book of Common Prayer and the decline of effective religious belief; begins
"Dear Mrs. Stobart / The late Rev. Dick Sheppard suggested that I should revise
the Prayer Book, as there were certain passages"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to ? Ayot St. Lawrence; purchased from Remember When Auction, Inc., November 1993;
written on fragment of one of Shaw's printed postcards, Laurence D15(a); begins
"Neither does he ask questions; he answers them-"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Alan S. Downer
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "If you will send me a question- / nare, the"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ethel Shaw (Mrs. Gordon Walters)
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Ethel / The most hopeless, because the
maddest, of all gamblers is the one"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Alan S. Downer Ayot St. Lawrence; holograph answers to Downer's typed questions concerning
Harley Granville-Barker; one of Shaw's comments is written on a fragment,
including signature, of Downer's letter (ca. April 1, 1947)
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to ? [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Some persons with great artistic talent have no
conscience"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Blanche Patch? [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; according to a note by Bernard Burgunder, this note
"establishes the date of the completion of Buoyant Billions;
begins "Here is the end of the play."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Alan S. Downer Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Professor Downer, Many thanks for the"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ruth Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Ruth / Suppose you get six contributors and
provide a story yourself besides editing"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I have sent an ample supply"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to J.W. Dulanty [shorthand draft] Ayot St. Lawrence; includes a typed transcription; begins "Dear Mr. Dulanty /
Thank you [for] phoning me about the defeat of Dev by a rickety coalition
that"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; letter is on the printed broadside "From London to Ayot St.
Lawrence by Road"; begins "My dear Gene / I see you have landed. I am such a
pitiable old crock of"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Curtis Freschel Begins "Dear Curt, Now that you are, like myself, a widower, I may talk to you
freely"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Alan S. Downer Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Mr. Downer, I cannot sufficiently urge you"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company?
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; address on the card seems to have been erased; begins
"Limbert has shown me your letter"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Dr. M. Baxter Ayot St. Lawrence; concerns a proposal to establish a memorial to H.G. Wells;
begins "Dear Dr. Baxter, I think the Wells Committees"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Blanche Patch Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "The crisis is very trying: I cannot afford"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Gene / It may amuse you to hear that when"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Georgina (Gillmore) Musters Ayot St. Lawrence; with explanatory "Note from Dan H. Laurence" added on
separate leaf; begins "My hand writing is now so slow and tiresome"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to British Broadcasting Company Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from
Joe Burroughs for the B.B.C.; begins "No. These dialect tomfooleries are not in
my class."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Dame Laurentia McLachlan Begins "Just as your letter came it happened also that I had a visit from"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note: Statement for the press on the Spanish Civil
War On reverse of a letter from J.A. Balbontin, given to F.E. Loewenstein to be
given to Reuter's; with explanatory note on separate leaf
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Stephen Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; concerns memorial stone for Harry and Clara Higgs; begins
"Too late / I have engaged the local man who seems promising / His questions
are very intelligent"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Clare Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Clare / You mustn't make scenes with me: I
am in that trade; and it doesn't amuse me. And I am much bothered at
present"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Colonel "Eddie" Eagan Ayot St. Lawrence?; Eagan was evidently at one time a boxer; begins "Dear
Colonel Eagan, When my late wife began her career in that capacity I had
much"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to William Ralph Inge Ayot St. Lawrence?; copy made by Blanche Patch; begins "Dear Angelic Doctor,
Celebrations are the curse of eminent"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note: Printed card inscribed to Isobel
Ingram Ayot St. Lawrence; text concerns sculpture of Joan of Arc by Claire Winsten;
with photograph
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Before deciding finally about a nom de pinceau
consider the case of the Sitwells: Edith, Osbert, and Sachaverell"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Note: regarding the coming Shaw-Nehru
meeting The 3 items also include a newspaper clipping and photo of the meeting
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "The marble of my hand by Sigmund Strobl / is
precious."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "What books did Cockerell take"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "No preference, except for / yours."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Eric Bentley Ayot St. Lawrence; on Shaw's background reading for his play Saint
Joan; begins "I read lots of Joaniana; / but I went by
Quicherat."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I have no B.B. drawings left / Clark has all that
you have not / Today Rectory Cottage is on view"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter: Concerning Blanche Patch and Judy
Musters Ayot St. Lawrence; Miss Patch's holograph appears at the bottom, answering
Shaw's note
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I have not become a landlord nor a mortgagee nor
done anything for L. that I would not have done"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Maxwell has sent me your letter dated the 14th."
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Fanny Holtzmann Signature in Pitman shorthand; this note apparently intended as a draft for a
cable; begins "Cable unintelligible filming"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Two notes of different dates on one leaf, in answer to a typed question at the
top of the page; begins "No. I shall go on with Stern & Reubens, as"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Letter: to The Times Book Club A printed postcard on which Shaw has written his order for "Ruskin by Peter
Quennell (Collins)"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to "Lena" Begins "I have not a rap"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Stern & Reubens Ayot St. Lawrence; corrected in his hand; with dealer's description and
comments on a separate leaf; concerns American copyright of Shaw's essay
"Imprisonment"; begins "Dear Stern & Reubens / In 1922 I contributed"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Envelope addressed to Theodora
Winsten
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; with a long postscript in Shaw's hand; text mainly concerned
with Erica Cotterill, author of a number of works on Shaw; begins "My dear
Clare / Sorrow be damned! I said nothing about sorrow. E.C. lived on a farm at
Bampton"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Clare Winsten Ayot St. Lawrence; concerning Shaw's relationship to Erica Cotterill; copy made
by Blanche Patch?; begins "My dear Clare, Sorrow be damned! I said nothing
about"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch The letter is torn into 3 fragments; begins "By the way, I should have said in
my letter about your salary"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Alan S. Downer Ayot St. Lawrence; signed "F.E.L."; begins "Bernard Shaw could not / license
the production of"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "On the 30th the Bank / will pay £41-13-4 for
the"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Letter: to The Times Book Club Ayot St. Lawrence; postcard ordering The Last Attachmentby Iris
Origo
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Graves
[initialed] Begins "My dear Charles / Forget me: I am out of date. I don't"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter: to Europa Films [shorthand draft] London; both letters deal with film rights in Sweden to Shaw's
Pygmalion; with "translation" and accompanying note by
Bernard Burgunder
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| 17 |
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GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to I. William Prior
[initialed] Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is an answer to a letter from Prior to Shaw
dated July 15, 1950, and appears on the same sheet with it; begins "I have not
changed my registered"
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| 17 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to Blanche Patch Ayot St. Lawrence; literary advice on the writing of her autobiography
Thirty Years With G.B.S.; with copy of letter, apparently
made by Blanche Patch; begins "My dear Blanche / Make a very sparing use of
the"
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| 18 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to E. Margaret Wheeler Typed transcripts made by Mrs. Wheeler and corrected in her hand of letters to
her by Shaw and of her letters to him; the transcript totals 467 numbered pages
plus a carbon copy of an index and an identifying note written by Mrs.
Wheeler
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| 18 |
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GBS : Typed Letter: to E. Margaret Wheeler A complete photocopy of the 39 letters to and from E. Margaret Wheeler; should
be used instead of the transcripts whenever possible
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| 112-114 |
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The following, from Box 112-114, forms part of the Ann Elder Jackson
Collection [subseries]: |
| 112 |
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GBS : Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder [Ayot St. Lawrence] My Ayot supply of Higgins's Eternal Ink [Ann Elder was
Shaw's second secretary [1911?]-1920]
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| 112 |
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GBS : Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder [Nancy, France] I shall be at this address [Postcard verso has photo of the
Excelsior Hotel]
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder [Nancy, France] Write to Miss C.A. Arfwedson, 56A Long Acre, [Postcard verso
has photo of the Excelsior Hotel]
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder [London] Say that I [am] just leaving town,
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I am sending the fourth act of Pygmalion.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I shall not be up until Thursday.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; For the new address book: Jacob Epstein,
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed noteto Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; For new address book: - Arthur Shaw,
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Folkestone; Sister, Ann/ Send cards about my being abroad to J. E. Vedrome
[On letterhead of The Frederick Hotels Limited, Royal Pavilion Hotel]
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Hotel de Russie, Kissingen, Germany; Please make two typed copies of the
enclosed duplicate
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Herbrechstingen, Germany; All my plans are changed. [On verso is scenic
picture of Bad Kissingen, Maxbrunnen]
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder The Grand Hotel, Birmingham; Please wire to me the very first thing
|
| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Edstaston; I shall go up to Ayot tomorrow;
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please make 2 copies of the enclosed.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please copy out and send me the last speck on page
171
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Send me down any motor catalogues that come.
|
| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence;Write to Guiras or Quiras to say that my Spanish
translations are already provided for.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence;Yes: send down the Awakeners; but send one copy
downstairs
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Send Hamon a copy of the Common Sense of Municipal
Trading.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder At the Little Theatre they told me that they had sent me half a dozen
copies
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder You must throw yourself on this instantly and type it as hard as you can.
[Verso has Shaw's shorthand on it.]
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Get a box from Drinkwater for John Bull for Tuesday
|
| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; You did not put the Parents & Children preface into
my writing case.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Longmynd Hotel, Church Stretton, Salop;It is all right about Miss Kinston: I
telegraphed to her
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder When you see "stat" in the margin, do not copy it: pass it over.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder If Clark sends proofs of Androcles, send one set over to Granville Barker at
once.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Kilteragh, Foxrock, Co. Dublin; Theree is a big document lying about
somewhere,
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; There is a letter somewhere from C\Owen Lewis asking me
to write him
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed letter signed to H.A. Des Voeux London; Dear Des Voeux, I have just learned from a friend of my sister
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Collect all the bankers' receipts, amounting to 1000
pounds in all, [This is a reply to Ann Elder; her question to Shaw is on the
same leaf.]
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder [Kilteragh, Foxrock, Co. Dublin]; We cross tonight to Holyland and shall
reach Ayot on Sunday
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Better send Godard a copy of last years Supertax Carlow
return
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Appoint 11 on Saturday for Franser Outram.
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed note to Ann Elder Torcross Hotel, near Kingsbridge, S. Devon; Telegrams/ Hotel. Torcross./ My
address
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| 112 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder London; I forgot to say that Miss Ashwell's address is:
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Great Catherine has been finished & typed long since;
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder London; Tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon I start for Folkstone.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder [Hotel de la] Croix d'Or, Valence-s-Rhone; We shall stay at this hotel for
the rest of the week
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Hotel de la Croix d'Or, Valence-s-Rhone; I send you back the recipts,
cheques etc. to be posted from London.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hotel de la Croix d'Or, Valence-s-Rhone; Please send Brentanos a copy of
Pygmalion and a copy of Androcles,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Valence-s-Rhone; Hamon says he has never had Androcles or Pygmalion. [Verso
has scenic picture of Vanlence - Esplanade du Champ de Mars - Monument L.
Gallet]
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Grand Hotel, Biarritz; I send a cheque for 35 pounds to replenish the cash
box.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Grand Hotel, Biarritz; I enclose an agreement to be filed under Holland for
the Doctor's Dilemma,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder [Le Mans, France] How He died depends on whom can be got for the men's
parts. [Verso has picture of Eglise de la Couture, le Tympan.]
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder I forget whether I sent copy of the revised Great Catherine to
Trebitsch.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Housel Bay Hotel, Cornwall; I enclose a cheque for the Park Village
rent.
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Ilfracombe Hotel, Ilfracombe, North Devon; The Trade Union Congress utterly
repudiated that audacous thirtyfive shilling standard.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Somerset; Please send one to Ayot (where I shall arrive on Sunday) [Verso
contains photo of Hotel Metropole, Minehead, Somerset.]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot, St. LawrenceI want the enclosed by return of post, so that I can
catch
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Transcribe the enclosed & send it down straight to
the New Statesman,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I want a letter from Pharall Smith enclosing a letter
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; You had better send a card to all the actors &
actresses to say that I am out of town.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Ssend back the play left yesterday
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Send a copy of Pygmalion with my compliemtns to Arthur Bourchier
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; The enclosed is to be filed for reference under The Music
Cure.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Make two copies of the enclosed; and send one to
Constable
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder The Danum Hotel, Doncaster; Sister Ann/ I have left your memorandum of
Charlotte's address in London.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Royal Crescent Hotel, Filey, Yorkshire; At the next opportunity remind me of
the name of the acting manager [Verso has scenic photo of The Caves, Filey
Brigg]
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Royal Crescent Hotel, Filey, Yorkshire; Kilsby is still too ill to move; but
we hope to get away tomorrow.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Laurence; Miss Pratt has just telegraphed her address,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Coole Park, C. Galway; Please send me a spring back portfolio - my green
sheets are blowing all over the place.
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GBS: Typed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; If you can find two brushes for cleaning the type of this
machine anywhere
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Send three copies of Pygmalion (if we have so many to
spare)
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder The Lodree Hotel, Keswick; Send Fischer one of the postcards: the one with
folded arms -
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Lodore Hotel, Keswick; Get the box for Lucy - matinee 31st July Kinsway.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; It is very unlikely that the banks will not
open tomorrow - [Verso contains photo of the Torquay Hydro-Hotel]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Do not forget to send me all press
cuttings.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; We seem likely to stay here for some time -
possibly all the time.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; It occurs to me that I promised to pay the
censor's fee if Mrs. Warren's Profession was submitted.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hyro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; I have received a cheque for 26-5-0 pounds from
the Daily News for an article
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Hydro Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Among the enclosures (mostly for filing) is a
cheque from Heys which should be acknowledged.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; I want some of the postcards with my portrait
on them - about a dozen.
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GBS: Autographed note signed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Make me Two Typed copies of this; keep one by
you at Adelphi Terrace;
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Your two cards arrived together this morning.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please ring up Mr. Sidney Webb & ask for instructions
as to the missing Fabian Research report,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I want Mrs. Desmond Fitzgerald's address - somewhere near
Dingle in the County Kerry.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Savernake Forst Hotel, Nr. Marlborough, Wiltshire; I shall be at this
address until Sunday morning.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder The Spread Eagle Hotel, Midhurst; I shall stay here tomorrow and go on the
the Bridge Hotel,
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder The Beacon Hotel, Crowborough, Sussex; I am coming back tomorrow (Saturday).
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please send the enclosed cheque (after filling in the
name) to Dylsbeck, who wrote to me
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton; Please type me a fair copy of the
enclosed.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton; I have promised tickets for Fanny to four
young ladies at the Fox Institute in Regnet St.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder [Fox] The letters had better be forwarded direct to me up to 6 o'clock on
Saturday evening.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Coole Par, Gort., Co. Galway; Better send one of the press cuttings etc.
from Mrs. Barker.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Coole Park, Gort., Co. Galway; Please fill this with Higgins ink, &
return it to me.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway; Please send cables as follows - deferred
rate.
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway; I return the stupendous collection of stamped
envelopes you sent me - Heavens knows why -
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder New Hotel, Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale, Ambleside; You did not send me
Frank Harris's letter.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I shall not be up until tomorrow & probably not then
until lunch,
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I cannot find the Insurance Policy for the motor bicycle
here;
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GBS: Autographed note to Ann Elder [Ayot St. Lawrence] Yes: all right. Did Roger Canliffe apply to me lately
[This was Shaw's response on same leaf to Ann Elder's questions.]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; [Entirely in Shaw's shorthand and unable to read.]
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GBS: Autographed Listing [n.p.] [Listing of items "Packed in Holdall" and items "Still to be packed"]
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GBS: Autographed card to [Ann Elder] [n.p.] I have told Standing to send you a gross of thin postcards [Beginning
card (verso is telephone number change notification) numbered (1) and ending
with (continued)]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; I want the American Pygmalion agreement with
Livingstone.
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Mrs. Kilsby is not at/ Scat/ Bellyclough/
Mellow/ Co. Cork
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Probably my arrangement with Mr. Campbell
[partly in Shaw's shorthand]
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; There is a hiatus in the Androcles preface,
[includes some Shaw shorthand]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; All letters had better be sent straight on to
me.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon;The letter and agreements I sent to Shubert are
at the bottom of the sea:
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Do not copy the Shubert letter until you hear
from me.
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Don't sleep at the Terrace unless the nostalgia
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Mrs. Kilsby is still in Ireland,
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Kilsby & his wife have returned from
Ireland
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; I want, by return of post, as many different
photographs of the queeen
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Hydro-Hotel, Torquay, Devon; Send me the agenda of the Society of Authors
meeting on Monday.
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GBS: Autographed note signed to anonymous [London] Please admit the bearer, Miss Elder. She is my secretary, [ on
Shaw's "compliment card"]
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| 113 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please make a careful not to insist on a ribbon.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; The Fabian Soc. sent the tickets; and I sent on to
Evans.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I want 1. The Irish papers sent by Sir Matthew
Nathan.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder I want a memorandum of my income for the last 4 In come Tax returns,
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Shall be up on Thursday - possibly or Wednesday.
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I could not get the three enclosed messages through from
Ceodicote:
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; If, as seems possible, Barber should turn up
presently,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please get us a box for The Starlight Express for
Wednesday afternoon.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Can you find me any unanswered letters from T. D.
O'Bolger, [Verso contains color photograph of the "Ruins of Ayot St.
Lawrence."
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Cable or wireless Reynolds "Accept Metropolitan. Shaw."
[Verso has color picture of Bala Lake.
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GBS: Autographed letter to Ann Elder London; [Handwritten letter to Lady Mayer for Elder to type] My dear Lady
Mager/ I am afraid Iam a broken reed in the Stage Society matter.
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GBS: Autographed postcard to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; [Handwritten letter to unknown for Elder to type] Dear
Sir/ I went to see the puppets, and missed the most important thing in a
theatre: the pay box.
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder London; [Handwritten letter to Bertrand Russell for Elder to type] Dear
Bertrand Russell/ Yeats wrote to me about Chappelow, enclosing a letter from
a lady, a cousin of his.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Gloucester Hotle, Weymouth; I do not understand how the Barlow accounts have
got out of the usual sequence. [On verso is a color photograph of The King
Charles, Poole.]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Gloucester Hotle, Weymouth; I have had no proof of my article for J. P's
Weekly
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Make a copy of this as early as possible, and send the
original,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder London; My dear AE/ Clearly it is advisable to [mostly in Shaw's
shorthand]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder I find I have come without a green writing pad. [On verso is picture of Town
Cellares, Poole.]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Royal Mount Ephraim Hotel, Tunbridge Wells; Please send me a copy of
Androcles to Windham Croft [On verso is photo of the hotel]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Windham Croft, Turners Hill, Sussex; Better send me all letters.
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GBS: Autographed note[fragment] signed to Ann Elder [n.p.] [page] 2/ 5. Send three copies of the Inca and three of O'Flaherty,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Windham Croft, Turners Hill, Sussex; I want a book by William Bell called
The Exodus
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Windham Croft, Turners Hill, Sussex; Please send me a copy of O'Flaherty and
one of the Inca.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; William Poel, 5 Amersham Road, Putney S. W. has been sent
somebody else's copy of Androcles
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder White Hart Hotel, Sedbergh; Yes: send me the Wilde-Harris letter - both
copies.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I shall come up to London on Monday, and start for
Glastonbury on Tuesday or Wednesday,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder London; I have forgotten the New Age, and the prospectus of the Glastonbury
Festival
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| 113 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder The Crown Hotel, Glastonbury, Somerset; Please transcribe for me the last
three or four speckes of the long play (not Augustus)
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| 113 |
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder White Hart Hotel, Sedbergh; Yes: send on Cecil Chesterton's book by all
mean.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder White Hart Hotel, Sedbergh; Please send me a supply of visiting cards.
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| 113 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder White Hart Hotel, Sedbergh; Send all letters addressed to Granville Barker
to the Garrick Club,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder White Hart Hotel, Sedbergh; Send me as much of the Clusterton Review as you
can,
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GBS: Autographed note signed to Ann Elder White Hart Hotel, Sedbergh; The enclosed is not to be entered in the cash
book:
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder [n.p.] Send those messages by Insp. Marconi. I want the copy of a letter I
wrote to Helen Arthur
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GBS: Autographed note signed to Ann Elder [Favvy. New York] Agreed November sixth Booth theatre go ahead. Shaw
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| 113 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Broadway, New York; Faversham may produce sixth November Booth Theatre
letter follows
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; If Mrs. Gillmore still insista on cash payments, [with
some Shaw shorthand]
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Send a copy of O'Flaherty, marked Private in red ink
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| 113 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Here is a frightful job. You must collate these two
copies of the medical article,
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| 113 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Mrs. Chapin had better call on Saturday morning.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I shall not come up this week. You might ring up Mr.
Page
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I want the following message sent by the cheapest
available method:
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; You put a penny stamp on the Marbury cheque on Parr's
Bank:
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Yes: by all means let your mother read anything she
wants.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; If there is any correspondence about the Irish
Convention
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Tell Mrs. Bilton that my present intention is not to come
up until Monday morning,
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Prior's Field, Godalming; Enclosed are odds & ends taht I should have
given you yesterday
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder London; Was Miss Kaurer's a/c sent with the fees all right?
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Prior's Field, Godalming; If you can find a letter from A. E. Boyd (I am not
sure of the initials)
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GBS: Autographed note signed to Ann Elder Prior's Field, Godalming; Please get on 15 one pound notes = 15 pounds
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder [n.p.] Stationery as follows/ 2 packets of envelopes, court size
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; Please open all letters. The one you
conjectured to be from Lucy
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; During your absence the letters had
better be forwarded to me:
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; I am sending a letter to Miss Dickens
to be mimeographed.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; If this reaches you in time, will you
send me a file -
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; There is no reason why you should
hurry back to town.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Long Lake, Sneem, Co. Kerry; These are all for filing 2 c. [On verso is
picture of Long Lake]
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; I find that my prolonged stay is
eating up my stationery.
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; Please look in the letter H in the
general file, also in K,
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Parknasilla Hotel, Kenmare, Co. Kerry; Please make two copies of the
enclosed, and post the original immediately
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GBS: Autographed letter signedto Ann Elder Kilteragh, Foxrock, Co. Dublin; It is not settled that we leave this on the
evening of next Tuesday,
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Kilteragh, Foxrock, Co. Dublin; Do not send any books here, especially bulky
ones:
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Can you find any more photographs for me?
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Cable Foversham as follows: "Since calling have learnt
that your operations have proved fatal...
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please send me a memorandum of the payments I have to
make at the end of the year.
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I cannot pay the Sussex Lodge rent without the receipt,
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Have you any refills for the Reporters Note Book?
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I got no letters this morning. Ask Una at what hour they
must be posted.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please buy The Herald on Monday & Tuesday (2 copies
would be no harm)
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla-on-Sea; The enclosed finishes the third
Methusulah play; and as I want to guard
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla-on-Sea; I send the enclosed not to spoil
your holiday (though it has so far spoiled mine)
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla-on-Sea; Send Constance Collier the blue
papper of terms and say that she can deduct
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla-on-Sea; The word in the telegram was
Cox.
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder The Hut, Bray, Berks.; Tomorrow (Tuesday) I go to Penbe. As they always
bother me to recite
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed to Ann Elder Penbe near Dartmouth; On Friday morning I start for Presteign,
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Presteign; At present it seems likely that I shall return on Saturday to
Ayot;
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I am comping up on Thursday. Tell Mrs. Bilton.
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder [n.p.] Say very politely that I do not understand the transaction
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; Please 1. Get one of the National Liberal Club pamphlets
on Equality from the bundle
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; You did not put Eaglefield Hull's letter in my bag; so I
cannot send the corrected
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| 114 |
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GBS: Autographed note initialed to Ann Elder [n.p.] Please send me down, The last Macdona-Pygmalion agreement
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GBS: Autographed postcard initialed to Ann Elder Ayot St. Lawrence; I am writing to Hugh Peed to send you a copy of Dr.
Robert Bell's pamphlet:
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GBS: Autographed letter initialed [copy] to Ann Elder Shakespeare Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon; My dear Ann/ Send Miss Patch (your
successor at the Terrace) your mother's name and address;
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