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Guide to the Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, [ca. 1810]-1990.
Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, [ca. 1810]-1990.
Compiled by Ana Guimarães
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
January 2003
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Guide to the Bernard F. Burgunder Collection Of George Bernard Shaw,[ca. 1810]-1990
Collection Number: 4617
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library
Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Ana Guimarães
Date completed:
March 2006
EAD encoding:
Peter Martinez, March 2006
© 2006 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw,
[ca. 1810]-1990.
4617
Bernard, Shaw 1856-1950.
50.3 linear ft.
Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, broadsides, microfilms, videocassettes, audio cassettes, posters, and other materials.
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, broadsides, microfilms, videocassettes, audio cassettes, posters, and other materials by and about Shaw, covering all aspects of his varied literary, critical, personal, and political activities.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
British playwright; literary, art, and music critic; lecturer and essayist; and socialist. One of the founders of the Fabian Society, precursor of England's Socialist Party.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, broadsides, microfilms, videocassettes, audio cassettes, posters, and other materials by and about Shaw, covering all aspects of his varied literary, critical, personal, and political activities. Includes 2122 manuscripts by or about Shaw; 832 letters by Shaw; 2580 photographs, including some 2400 of productions of Shaw's plays at the Arts Theatre Club in London, 70 photographs of Shaw himself and 14 taken by Shaw; and a large collection of theater programs for productions of Shaw's plays through 1990, reviews of his plays, newspaper clippings which include articles on his many speeches and lectures, and proofs and rehearsal copies of his plays.
Correspondents include: Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Lady Gregory, Hesketh Pearson, Blanche Patch, Charlotte Payne-Townshend Shaw (his wife), Harley Granville-Barker, Henry Arthur Jones, Gertrude Lawrence, F.E. Loewenstein, Sean O'Casey, Dame Sybil Thorndike, George Herbert Thring, Gene Tunney, H.G. Wells, Dan H. Laurence, and Bernard F. Burgunder. Also included are a 1903 letter to Charles Dickens's daughter Kate Perugini, concerning her father's literary stature, and an 1889 letter to Tighe Hopkins in which Shaw predicts the future of his own writing career.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Shaw, Bernard,1856-1950.
Burgunder, Bernard.
Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946.
Gregory, 1852-1932.
Hopkins, Tighe, 1856-1919.
Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929.
Laurence, Dan H.
Lawrence, Gertrude.
Loewenstein, Fritz Erwin, 1901-
O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
Patch, Blanche, b. 1878.
Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964.
Perugini, Kate, 1839-1929.
Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend.
Thorndike, Sybil, 1882-1976.
Thring, George Herbert, 1859-1941.
Tunney, Gene, 1898-
Wells, H. G.(Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Arts Theatre Club (London, England).
British Broadcasting Corporation.
Subjects:
Drama--England--History--Sources.
Theater--England--History--20th century.
English literature--20th century.
Modernism (Literature).
Irish literature.
Socialism--Great Britain--History--Sources.
Musical criticism--England.
Art criticism--England.
English literature--History and criticism.
Socialism and theater.
Authors and the theater.
Theater--Production and direction.
Theatrical posters.
Authors, English.
Authors, Irish.
Authors, English.
Places:
Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Portraits.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:
Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, #4617. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
RELATED MATERIALS
A large collection of books by and about Shaw (ca. 2530 titles) is also housed in the repository.
CONTAINER LIST
Series I Manuscripts
1
1
GBS : Autograph Manuscript [fragment] "actually claims to be the first playwright to put sexual love on the stage,..."
n.d.
See: Harris, Frank.
Bernard Shaw
. New York, 1931. p. 233.; with transcript
1
2
GBS : Address Book
[pre-1900]
photostat
133 leaves
Made from the Microfilm of the address book in the British Museum, numbered 50715
1
3
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Address Book
ca. 1902
photostat
55 leaves
1
4
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Address to the U.S.A. [fragment]
Summer 1940
1 leaf
1 leaf
Includes note by GBS dated April 7, 1942; See: p. 322 of R. Mander & J. Mithcenson,
Theatrical Companion to Shaw
(London 1954) for text and circumstances
1
5
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Address to the U.S.A.
Summer 1940
copy
1 item
From the Tunney Collection
Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
illustration proofs
151 items
Made from various states of the wood engravings prepared by John Farleigh for the book published in December 1932; all items formed part of the Black Girl Collection, acquired by Cornell in October 1984
1
6
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 1) Title page
n.d.
3 proofs
3 leaves
1
7
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 2) Headpiece with capital W
n.d.
3 proofs
2 leaves
1
8
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 3) Lord of Hosts
n.d.
4 proofs
4 leaves
1
9
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 4) God of Job
n.d.
4 proofs
4 leaves
1
10
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 5) Ecclesiastes
n.d.
8 proofs
4 leaves
3 leaves mounted together on stationery of M.H. Mushlin
1
11
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 6) King Richard the Lion
n.d.
7 proofs
5 leaves
1
12
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 7) Micah
n.d.
3 proofs
2 leaves
1
13
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 8) Myopic professor
n.d.
9 proofs
8 leaves
1
14
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 9) Roman soldier
n.d.
12 proofs
8 leaves
1
15
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 10) Conjuror
n.d.
12 proofs
8 leaves
1
16
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 11) Ancient fisherman
n.d.
12 proofs
6 leaves
1
17
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 12) Explorers
n.d.
9 proofs
5 leaves
1
18
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 13) Sculptor
n.d.
16 proofs
11 leaves
1
19
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 14) Arab
n.d.
7 proofs
4 leaves
1
20
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 15) Voltaire
n.d.
8 proofs
7 leaves
1
21
GBS : Manuscript
: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 16) Irishman
n.d.
10 proofs
6 leaves
1
22
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 17) Too busy to search
n.d.
8 proofs
6 leaves
1
23
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 18) Headpiece of typewriter and books
n.d.
5 proofs
3 leaves
1
24
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 19) Peace
n.d.
1 proof
1 leaf
1
25
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 20) Tailpiece of spear and harp
n.d.
2 proofs
2 leaves
(See also #21)
1
26
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 21) Endpapers
n.d.
2 proofs
6 leaves
One proof used for trial layout of front and back covers of the book; also contains proof of Tailpiece of spear and harp
1
27
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration proofs] 22) Back cover design
n.d.
2 proofs
2 leaves
Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
illustration sketches; pencil, ink, and watercolor
40 items
Preparatory sketches, for the book published in December 1932; all items formed part of the Black Girl Collection, acquired by Cornell in October 1984
1
28
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 1) Title page
June 15, 1932
pencil;
On verso is written Shaw's autographed letter signed to Farleigh
1
29
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 2) Title page
n.d.
pencil
1
30
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 3) Title page
n.d.
watercolor
1
31
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 4) Headpiece with capital W
n.d.
watercolor
1
32
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 5) Lord of Hosts
n.d.
watercolor
1
33
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 6) God of Job
n.d.
watercolor
1
34
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 7) Ecclesiastes
n.d.
pencil
1
35
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 8) Ecclesiastes
n.d.
watercolor
1
36
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 9) King Richard the Lion
n.d.
watercolor
1
37
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 10) Micah
n.d.
watercolor
Also contains a note in Shaw's hand on verso
1
38
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 11) Micah
October 30, 1932
watercolor
With a hinged overlay; on verso is Shaw's autographed letter signed to Farleigh
1
39
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 12) Micah
n.d.
pencil tracing
With note on verso by Shaw; (see also #34)
1
40
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 13) Micah
n.d.
watercolor
1
41
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 14) Myopic professor
n.d.
watercolor
1
42
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 15) Myopic professor
n.d.
watercolor
1
43
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 16) Beanstalk
n.d.
ink
Drawn on verso of printed proof sheet, numbered 64, and including the heading "Thou Art The Man," for the "Preface on Doctors" to Shaw's play
The Doctor's Dilemma
.
1
44
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 17) Roman soldier as Bobadil
n.d.
ink
1
45
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 18) Roman soldier as Tin Wellington
n.d.
ink
1
46
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 19) Roman soldier, 1st version
n.d.
watercolor
1
47
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 20) Roman soldier, 2nd version
n.d.
watercolor
1
48
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 21) Conjuror, on Malvern Hotel stationery
n.d.
pencil
1
49
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 22) Conjuror, on plain stationery
n.d.
pencil
1
50
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 23) Conjuror
n.d.
watercolor
1
51
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 24) Ancient fisherman
n.d.
watercolor
1
52
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 25) Explorers
n.d.
watercolor
1
53
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 26) Sculptor
n.d.
watercolor
1
54
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 27) Arab
n.d.
watercolor
1
55
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 28) Voltaire
n.d.
watercolor
1
56
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 29) Irishman
n.d.
watercolor
With draft of Shaw's autographed manuscript; colophon note written on verso
1
57
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 30) Irishman, 1st version
n.d.
watercolor
1
58
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 31) Irishman, 2nd version
n.d.
watercolor
1
59
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 32) Too busy to search
n.d.
watercolor
1
60
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 33) Headpiece of typewriter and books
n.d.
watercolor
1
61
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 34) Headpiece of typewriter and books
n.d.
pencil
With note by Shaw; drafts for Micah on verso
1
62
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 35) Headpiece of typewriter and books
n.d.
watercolor
1
63
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 36) Peace
n.d.
watercolor
With note by Shaw
1
64
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 37) Peace
n.d.
pencil
With note by Shaw
1
65
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 38) Tailpiece of spear and harp
n.d.
watercolor
1
66
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 39) Endpaper design, single unit
n.d.
watercolor
1
67
Farleigh : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[Illustration sketches] 40) Cover design
n.d.
watercolor
1
68
GBS :
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[proof sheets]
October 10, 1933
photocopy
5 leaves
Made from Photostats of originals in National Library of Scotland; showing autograph revisions by Shaw
1
69
GBS : Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
[pre-proof] Title page
1932
12 leaves
Trial layouts for title and imprint, including beginning of text, and proof of the Sculptor engraving; formed part of the Black Girl Collection; ink notes on 2 proofs by John Farleigh
2
1
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God
[stage version]
September 1968
copy
91 leaves +1 item
"Adapted for the stage by Christopher Isherwood;" with a copy of the printed program of the first and only production of this version (Mark Taper Forum, 1968); gifts of Gordon Davidson
2
2
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Anecdote of an incident which took place on the opening night of
On the Rocks
typescript
1 leaf
With holograph additions and notes by Shaw
2
3
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "after Flaxman" [& drawing]
n.d.
Manuscript; transcript; and copy
1 leaf + 2
Probably Shaw was caricaturing John (1755-1826) Flaxman's drafting style, parodying "The Pilgrim of Love" by Flaxman, or making facetious comparison with his own draughtsmanship
2
4
GBS : American Patriots and Persecutions: A Letter by G. Bernard Shaw
July 1919
photocopy
3 leaves + 2
On acid-free paper; made from original article printed on p. 388 of Vol. 41, No. 9 of
Pearson's Magazine
; with a copy of p. 386 on which is printed a paragraph by Shaw about Woodrow Wilson, from a letter to Frank Harris. See:
Pearson's Magazine
for the original
2
5
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Androcles and the Lion
ca. 1950?
Carbon copy; interleaved in paper binder
49 leaves
Date unknown; with some stage directions in margins, mostly in pencil
2
6
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Annajanska
January 9-10, 1918
3 leaves + copies
Rehearsal notes; produced at the Coliseum, January 21, 1918; copy included
2
7
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Answers to interview questions
August 27, 1945
ink
2 leaves
In red ink, "Exclusive to Miss Dorothy Royal" to two typed questions; one on the capabilities of the Labour Government, the other on prospects for polygamy in postwar Europe
2
8
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Answers to questions on divorce
1920?
3 leaves
Three typed questions with Shaw's holograph answers
2
9
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Arms and the Man
;
Great Catherine
;
You Never Can Tell
n.d.
24 leaves + copies
Rehearsal notes for the productions of
Arms and the Man
(December 11, 1919);
Great Catherine
(February 17, 1921);
You Never Can Tell
(November 19, 1920)
2
10
GBS : Designs for men's costumes for
Arms and the Man
n.d.
5 leaves
2
11
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Arms and the Man
&
The Chocolate Soldier
1927-28
1 leaf + 2 + 1
Also contains photocopy of another typing of the same statement, dated "April 1926;" including handwritten notes by Blanche Patch and Dan H. Laurence; explanatory note added on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder
2
12
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Arms and the Man
&
The Chocolate Soldier
(2)
1927
2 leaves + abbreviated typed transcript of 1 leaf
A statement concerning the relationship between Shaw's
Arms and the Man
and Oscar Strauss's
The Chocolate Soldier
(original-
Der Tapfere Soldat
)
2
13
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Augustus Does His Bit
January 22, 1917
8 leaves + copies
Rehearsal notes; various dates, in Shaw's hand, appear on the manuscript
2
14
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: "Authentic Shavian Democracy"
n.d.
4 leaves + 1 + 1
Article appeared in
Time and Tide
of February 10, 1945; later reprinted in
Time and Tide Anthology
in 1956; note by Bernard Burgunder included
2
15
GBS : Manuscript Signed: Autograph
n.d.
1 leaf
Corner of a document cut off to show only Shaw's signature; in envelope
2
16
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Draft scheme of Autumn Lectures by GBS
n.d.
copy?
7 leaves
Lists a series of topics for thirteen lectures, and possible speakers
2
17
GBS :
Back to Methuselah
[Preface][proof A]
1938?
printed
1 leaf
For the Limited Editions Club edition, published 1939; text of the proof is found on pp. vii-viii of the book, but in a different format
2
18
GBS :
Back to Methuselah
[Preface][proof B]
1938?
printed
1 leaf
For the Limited Editions Club edition, published in 1939; text of the proof is found on pp. vii-viii of the book, but in a different format; penciling may be John Farleigh's sketch for the illustration published on p. 82 of the book
2
19
GBS :
Back to Methuselah
[specimen pages]
ca. 1938
Printed
2 leaves + 1 + copies
One page of text and one engraving by John Farleigh; for the Limited Editions Club edition (New York 1939); with identifying note added on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence; with a printed (1938) "Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings for the Engravings by John Farleigh for 'Back to Methuselah' ..."
2
20
GBS :
Back to Methuselah
[Title page][proof A]
1938
Printed
1 leaf
For the Limited Editions club Edition, which was published in 1939 with a quite different title page
2
21
GBS :
Back to Methuselah
[Title page][proof B]
1939
printed
3 leaves
Three copies, one marked for changes; of a proof for the Limited Editions Club edition, which was published in 1939 with a quite different title page; See: Typed Letter Signed to John Farleigh from George Macy, February 14, 1939
2
22
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "A Balfour Ballad"
1888
shorthand
3 leaves
In envelope
2
23
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "A Balfour Ballad"
January 23, 1888
3 leaves + 1
Date and Place given are those of publication in
The Star
; the verse was published unsigned
2
24
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "The Best Books for Children"
n.d.
photocopy
4 leaves
Article written for unidentified periodical; with editor's introductory note added below title; copy of manuscript in the British Museum
2
25
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: "Brogue Shock"
ca. March 1917
8 leaves +1
Article, with corrections in Shaw's hand; published in
The Nation
, March 24, 1917
3
1
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Caesar and Cleopatra
[one page textual revision]
ca. 1929?
1 leaf + 1
"This textual change was written for the Malvern Festival of 1929." -- B.F. Burgunder; includes typed note by Burgunder, November 1970
3
2
GBS : Autograph Note(?): "Camera repairs" and an address
n.d.
1 leaf
Address of Alfred Allen
3
3
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Candida
[fragment]
1897?
5 leaves + 1
One leaf in G.B. Shaw's hand; two leaves in Charlotte Shaw's hand. These fragments belong in Act III, for the Achurch-Charrington first production. They were found with Shaw's letters to Ashley Dukes; bought at Swann auction May 6, 1976; with note by Burgunder, June 22, 1976
3
4
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
cast list suggestions
1912?
5 leaves + 1
Probably suggestions for Gertrude Kingston's revival at the Little Theatre, as several of the players Shaw recommends were actually cast; includes note by Bernard Burgunder, July 1974
3
5
GBS : Autograph Note: on the German piracy of
Cashel Byron's Profession
in the journal
Aus Fremden Zungen
December 7, 1906
Copy
14 pages + 1 leaf + 1
The copy of the pirated
Cashel
which has been detached from the journal; with note by Shaw; typed explanation by Bernard Burgunder
3
6
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: The Cassone
August 1889-November 1890
photostat
30 leaves
Copies of the original manuscript in the British Museum; includes notes in Dan H. Laurence's hand
3
7
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Cassone
August 1889-November 1890
photostat
27 leaves
Copies of the original manuscript in the British Museum: a dramatic fragment; edited in Dan H. Laurence's hand
3
9
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Copyright information from the Library of Congress
1949?
carbon copy
9 leaves + 1
Alphabetical list of works by Shaw citing American copyright records for each; with marginal notes in hand of F.E. Loewenstein; with explanatory note on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder, October 29, 1979
3
10
GBS : Manuscript:
Daily Worker
article
April 24, 1946
galley proof
2 leaves + 1
A holograph note to Shaw also on proof; signature unidentified; London
3
11
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Dialogue of the Devil & St. Augustine -- Scenario
October 1909
photocopy
12 leaves
Original manuscript in the British Museum; includes explanatory note on first leaf by Dan H. Laurence
3
12
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Drama and the Microphone; Broadcasting and the Art of the Theatre; A Symposium of Opinions
ca. 1925
2 leaves
Shaw's answer to the question: "Will Broadcasting be detrimental to the Art of the Theatre;" copied from
The Playgoer
, the
Organ of the Liverpool Playhouse Circle
(March 1925 No. 6, p. 3)
3
13
GBS : Material connected with "E.H. Bennett and Company," published in
Colburn's New Monthly
, February 1883
1883
5 leaves + 1
Includes a handbill for
Colburn's New Monthly
, an advertising brochure from Bennett's with holograph notes in Shaw's hand, a facsimile of the published article, and a note of description by Bernard F. Burgunder
3
14
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Essay on T.E. Lawrence [fragment]
n.d.
1 leaf + 1
Includes typed comments by Dan H. Laurence, February 17, 1968; See:
T.E. Lawrence By His Friends
. London, 1937. pp. 243-44
3
15
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Everybody's Political What's What, or Machiavelli Modernized
n.d.
2 leaves
Holograph corrections in Shaw's hand appear on the manuscript
3
16
GBS : Manuscript: The Fabian Society. Election of the Executive Committee, 1907-8
May 1907
invoice
1 leaf + 1
Received from George Standring, Printer and Publisher; with note on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence
3
17
GBS : Manuscript:
Fanny's First Play
rehearsal notes
February 10, 1915
14 leaves + 1 + copies
From the production at Kingsway Theatre, February 13, 1915 (14 pages); 1 page typed note by Bernard F. Burgunder, July 10, 1963
3
18
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Fanny's First Play
, cast list for production
April 19, 1911
1 leaf
Date of first production?; a different cast is penciled in next to the original list, in a different hand
3
19
GBS : Manuscript:
Fanny's First Play
-- Prologue
n.d.
typescript
1 item
Stapled into paper wrappers; found among the papers of Allan M. Laing; probably copied from p. 19 of
The Rehearsal Copies of Bernard Shaw's Plays
by F.E. Loewenstein (London 1950)
3
20
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Fiction [lecture]
April 1887
photocopy
29 leaves
The common saying that Truth is stranger than Fiction, implying that Fiction is not Truth; original in the British Museum; holograph notes in the hand of Dan H. Laurence
3
21
GBS : Manuscript: File folder
n.d.
1 item
Labelled "phonetics" in Shaw's hand
3
22
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Flyleaves
1977
typescript
51 leaves + 11
For the book
Flyleaves
(Austin, W. Thomas Taylor, 1977) edited by Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary; with galley proofs for the same book; both are the gift of Dan H. Laurence, in whose hand they are revised
3
24
GBS : Manuscript: Forbes-Robertson, Mr. Bernard Shaw's tribute
n.d.
typescript
1 leaf
Headed "With the compliments of Percy Burton, General Manager for Sire Johnston Forbes-Robertson
3
25
GBS : Manuscript: "From the Preface to
Buoyant Billions
"
n.d.
copy
3 leaves + 1
For the Malvern Festival Book of 1949; from a rehearsal copy of
Buoyant Billions
, corrected; includes a typed note of explanation
4
1
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Diaries -- shorthand
1880-1897
photostat
54 leaves + 1
Of diaries for 1880, 1885, 1888, 1891, 1894, 1897; all are in shorthand except that of 1880; original is in the British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School of Economics); includes explanatory note on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder
Autograph Manuscript: Diaries -- transcript
photostat
446 leaves
Copies of transcription by Blanche Patch from Shaw's shorthand; with some notes in the hand of Dan H. Laurence; filed in 12 folders, 1 folder per year; original is in the British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School of Economics)
4
2
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 1, 1885
1885
photostat
24 leaves
4
3
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 2, 1886
1886
photostat
28 leaves
4
4
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 3, 1887
1887
photostat
28 leaves
4
5
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 4, 1888
1888
photostat
49 leaves
First two leaves stapled together
4
6
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 5, 1889
1889
photostat
56 leaves
First two leaves stapled together
4
7
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 6, 1890
1890
photostat
62 leaves
First two leaves are stapled together
4
8
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 7, 1891
1891
photostat
58 leaves
4
9
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 8, 1893
1893
photostat
89 leaves
4
10
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 9, 1894
1894
photostat
32 leaves
First two leaves are stapled together
4
11
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 10, 1895
1895
photostat
17 leaves
4
12
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 11, 1896
1896
photostat
8 leaves
4
13
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 12, 1897
1897
photostat
3 leaves
Two leaves stapled together
5
1
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: The Garden of Hesperides
n.d.
copy
5 leaves + 2
Original manuscript in the British Museum; includes typed transcript edited partly in the hand of Dan H. Laurence
5
2
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Getting Married
1976
transcript
79 leaves
Transcript made by Barbara Smoker from photocopies of the two manuscript notebooks at Cornell and a third at the British Library, all mostly in shorthand
5
3
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Getting Married
1976
carbon copy
79 leaves
Carbon copy of a transcript made by Barbara Smoker
5
4
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed:
Getting Married
1907-1908
copy
109 leaves
Photocopies from which Barbara Smoker transcribed the shorthand text of the play
5
5
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Getting Married
[page 1]
1975
photographic negatives and prints
7 leaves
Three negatives and one glossy print; used for reproduction in the "Shaw at Cornell" brochure and invitation; copies of the latter are filed in the same folder with the negatives and glossy print
5
6
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Girl with the Golden Voice
ca. August 1935
copy
3 leaves + 1
Original manuscript in the British Museum; a dialogue broadcast by the B.B.C. on August 17, 1935; with an explanatory note on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence
5
7
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Glastonbury Skit
August 1916
copy
4 leaves + 5
Photocopy of the original manuscript in the British Museum; a dramatic interpolation; includes typed transcript, edited partly in the hand of Dan H. Laurence
5
8
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Hannen Swaffer's Story
November 17, 1943
1 leaf
Two paragraphs presumably intended as substitutions in an interview by Swaffer (
Daily Herald
, November 18, 1943): "Bernard Shaw's Final Words on Life, Death & the Hereafter, His Failures, Doubts & Hopes"; See: Typed Letter Signed to J. Tyler from Dan Laurence, February 3, 1981
5
9
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Heartbreak House
[autograph rehearsal notes]
October 18, 1921
16 leaves + copies
Produced at Court; backed by rehearsal notes of
John Bull's Other Island
5
10
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Heartbreak House
,
Great Catherine
, &
Playlets of the War
n.d.
2 leaves
Press release, London?; with holograph corrections in Shaw's hand
5
11
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "How To Talk Intelligently About the War"
1941?
copy
7 leaves + 1
There is no record of the publication of this essay; includes accompanying note from Dan Laurence, via Bernard Burgunder
5
12
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "I have been invited by The Independent Labor Party to give you..." [fragment]
n.d.
copy
3 leaves + 1
Seems to be a partial transcript of a recording
5
13
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
The Inca of Perusalem
[autograph rehearsal notes]
n.d.
2 leaves
Produced at the Criterion (Pioneer Player production) December 16, 1917
5
14
GBS : Autograph Note: Inquiries for articles
April 5, 1900; October 21, 1900
2 leaves + 1
According to enclosed note by Bernard Burgunder, these are a record kept by Shaw of requests by various journals and individuals for articles
5
15
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Inscription in Cranach Press
Hamlet
ca. July 1949
copy
3 leaves
Photocopy of Shaw's inscription in his copy of the Cranach Press
Hamlet
; from the original in the Hanley Collection at the University of Texas; with notes added partly in the hand of Dan H. Laurence
5
16
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Inscription in First Folio
ca. July 1949
photostat
3 leaves
Copies of Shaw's inscription in his copy of the facsimile edition of Shakespeare's First Folio; made from the original in the Archibald Henderson Collection at the University of North Carolina; with note added in the hand of Dan H. Laurence on verso of third leaf
5
17
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism
-- Author's Note
April 12, 1929
4 leaves + printed version
Holograph corrections
5
18
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Interview concerning the publication of the Shaw-Terry correspondence in response to an attack on Shaw by Gordon Craig [extract]
November 25, 1931
3 leaves
Interview with Bishop now a release from the publicity department of Putnam Books; New York
5
19
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Interview with G.W. Bishop essentially concerned with Gordon Craig and the latter's objection to the publication of the Shaw-Terry correspondence
1931
13 leaves
Published in
The Observor
, 1931; with holograph corrections in Shaw's hand
5
20
GBS : Manuscript: Interview with Shaw on politics, women, religion,...
February 20, 1937
galley proof
2 sheets
London
5
21
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Introduction / Cecil Chesterton / Cecil's Anti-Puritanism
n.d.
4 leaves + 1
Holograph corrections; includes note by Bernard F. Burgunder
5
22
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: "It is idle, and somewhat exasperating, to talk of..."
August 6, 1914
2 leaves + 1
One leaf of holograph, two leaves of typed manuscript; on the war
6
1
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
John Bull's Other Island
[set design]
n.d.
2 leaves
Ink drawing by Shaw, and labeled by him, of set design for Act III and Act IV Scene 1; bought at auction April 9, 1987
6
2
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: List of things to be checked when purchasing a new car
n.d.
1 leaf + 1
Includes note by Bernard Burgunder
6
3
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Literary Note
ca. February 1921
1 leaf
A prospectus for
Back to Methuselah
; with note added in Shaw's hand and dated February 4, 1921; found among letters received from Shaw by Brentano's, and date-stamped by Brentano's February 21, 1921
6
4
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Macbeth Skit
January 10, 1916
copy
7 leaves + 1
Setting copy with notes partly in the hand of Dan H. Laurence on a photocopy of the original manuscript in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas
6
5
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed:
Major Barbara
Ca. April 1922
1 leaf
Note for files; records authorization given to the Mansfield House Players to perform
Major Barbara
April 29, 1922
6
6
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
Major Barbara
[scenes for film]
1944?
Typescript
24 leaves + 1
With revisions in Shaw's hand and other hands, of scenes written especially for the film; pages are numbered with stamped numerals 1-15, 20-28, which supersede at least four earlier numbering sequences; acquired by Cornell in July 1987; the text of the scenes in this typescript differs from that in the Penguin "screen version" of 1945, and from that printed by Bernard Dukore in
The Collected Screenplays of Bernard Shaw
(1980); apparently this typescript provides the earliest known text of these scenes; for indications of related material see Dukore pp. 464-465 and Laurence A249
6
7
GBS : Autograph Note: Memorandum on
Mrs. Warren's Profession
in America
August 20, 1903
1 leaf
Strachur, Scotland
6
8
GBS : Autograph Note: Memorandum of "Royalty Shares" in the publication of the Shaw-Terry correspondence in 1931
n.d.
1 leaf
6
9
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
The Merchant of Venice
at the Lyceum
ca. 1879
photostat
30 leaves
Review of a production by Henry Irving, with editor's comments; original manuscript in the British Museum
6
10
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "The most profusely punctuated book in the English language is..."
n.d.
copy?
1 leaf + 1
Shaw on punctuation; this may actually be a letter, as the heading is "From Bernard Shaw"; there is no salutation or internal evidence to suggest to whom it was addressed; with a note by Bernard Burgunder
6
11
GBS : Typed Manuscript: A New Ending for Clemence Dane's
Cousin Muriel
March 27, 1940
copy
2 leaves + 4
From a letter(?) to Edith Evans; with photocopies of related materials, and an explanatory note on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence
6
12
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: "The New York press may return"
April 11, 1933
photographic prints
1 leaf + 1
6.5 x 8.5 glossy print reproducing a note written by Shaw, declining to be interviewed; identified on verso; with explanatory note on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder
6
13
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Nine Years of Failure as a Novelist Ending in Success as a Critic [fragment]
n.d.
1 leaf + 1
An early draft of an essay published in
Sixteen Self-Sketches
; with a note by Dan Laurence
6
14
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Notations concerning staff salaries for the Fabian Society
n.d.
1 leaf + 1
London?; on verso of copy of portion of account sheets; Dan Laurence "during World War I"
6
15
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Note concerning the pawning, redemption and sale at auction of a gold watch chain belonging to Shaw's uncle, W.J. Gurly
ca. November 1900
2 leaves
London; with broker's receipt from the sale
6
16
GBS : Autograph Note: Note on Samuel Butler's notebooks
March 18, 1949
5 leaves
Note appears on a sheet bearing a typed excerpt from Butler's notebooks which concerns Shaw; included are a photocopy of the passage in the 1951 edition of the notebooks, an explanatory note by Bernard Burgunder, and a clipping from a bookseller's catalog
6
17
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Notes--Miscellaneous
various dates
5 leaves + 2
Notes written on scraps of paper and envelopes; two shorthand notes are accompanied by transcriptions by Dan H. Laurence
6
18
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Notes by the way
ca. April 1940
5 leaves + 1
Very casual note on Hitler, anti-Semitism, and WWII; published in
Time and Tide
uon October 12, 1940; with a note by Bernard Burgunder
6
19
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Notes for Mr. Curtis Brown
December 30, 1928
photocopy
1 leaf + 1
Photocopy of the manuscript, with the dealer's description; concerns a publishing contract for
Flying Visits
, by Sir Philip Sassoon
6
20
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: On corporeal punishment
April 4, 1924
manuscript + photocopies
1 leaf + copy
Labeled "1/4/1124 [sic]"; the manuscript concerns "the anachronism of corporeal punishment in schools"
6
21
GBS : Typed Manuscript: On Going to Church
n.d.
28 leaves + 1 blank
Revised in his hand; with his autograph letter signed added at end to Arthur Brentano, December 2, 1911
6
22
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
On The Rocks
[sketch for playbill]
November 1933
1 leaf
See his Autograph Letter Signed to John Farleigh, November 16, 1933
6
23
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: On the True Signification of the term Gentleman
December 11, 1879
8 leaves + 2
London; dated in Shaw's hand on verso of next to last leaf; sent to
One and All
December 27, 1879; Cf. Bernard Shaw,
Collected Letters 1874-1897
, ed. Dan H. Laurence, p. 38
6
24
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Orkney and Shetland--Information for Motorists"
August 1925
carbon copy
8 leaves + 1
From the files of Blanche Patch, Shaw's last secretary; with a note by Bernard Burgunder which mentions the possibility that the article was written for the Royal Automobile Club
6
25
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Passion play
February 1878
photostats
51 leaves
Original manuscript in the British Museum; the first page is dated in Shaw's hand; published by the Windhover Press, 1971
6
26
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Poem written on verso of envelope addressed to Shaw by Elinor Huddart? [shorthand draft]
ca. March 1882
1 envelope + 1
London; See enclosed note with comments of Dan Laurence
6
27
GBS : Autograph Note: Precis...
The World
6
28
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Preface to
Great Expectations
[fragment], letter to Dr. Szyfman [shorthand draft], and article on marriage of Edward VIII and Mrs. Wallis Simpson [fragment]
December 1936?
1 leaf + 7 + 1
On the same sheet are Shaw's shorthand drafts of a letter to Dr. Arnold Szyfman, December 9, 1936, and part of an interview on the possible marriage of Edward VIII to Mrs. Wallis Simpson; included are typed transcriptions and explanatory notes; the letter concerns the Polish production of
The Millionairess
6
29
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: The Principles that Govern the Dramatist
May 1, 1912
1 leaf
Untitled statement written in ink on a sheet of parchment bearing printed announcement of The Modern Historic Records Association; published by the Association in 1913, in facsimile together with statements by others; reprinted subsequently several times in other publications
6
30
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Private note
n.d.
1 leaf
Concerns Hubert Bland and others
6
31
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed:
Pygmalion
, a Scenario
ca. April 1938
photocopy
148 leaves
Original located in the Hanley Collection, University of Texas; there are revisions in Shaw's hand, and his inscription on the first page: "to Floryan Sobieniowski for translation into Polish. G. Bernard Shaw 1st March 1938"; following p. 97, the paging begins again from 91
7
1
GBS : Autograph Note Signed: Questionnaire
ca. 1937
1 item
Mimeographed questionnaire, with Shaw's autograph replies; sent by National Education Association
7
2
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Questionnaire Concerning George Sylvester Viereck
February 15, 1935
1 leaf
Shaw's handwritten answers to thirteen questions typed on stationery of Elmer Gertz, attorney-at-law, Chicago
7
3
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Questionnaire with autograph replies
December 8, 1932
1 leaf + 1
Includes note by Bernard F. Burgunder
7
4
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "The Rationalization of Russia" [notes for lecture]
February 1, 1932
5 leaves + envelope
Capetown; notes, with listings of topics, catchwords, and key phrases
7
5
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Reply to Gerald Bullett's proposal for simplified spelling
March 1948?
2 leaves + 2
Ayot St. Lawrence?; printed in April 1948 edition of "Books"; with the manuscripts are the March 1948 issue of "Books" with Bullett's original letter and the April 1948 issue with Shaw's reply
7
6
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Report of the Dramatists Club Sub-Committee on the Employment of Children in the Theatre"
ca. May 1914
carbon copy
15 leaves + 1
London; includes draft letter on same subject to the Press; published in
The Era
and the
Morning Post
; authorship ascribed to Shaw by Dan Laurence
7
7
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Resolution proposed by Shaw
n.d.
1 leaf + 1
Partly in Shaw's hand; with explanatory note on separate leaf, "...Presumably related to activities of the National Theatre Shakespeare Memorial Committee"
7
8
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Royal Society of Literature proposal by Shaw, seconded by Edmund Gosse
June 30-July 15, 1922
1 leaf + 1
The proposal was made to the Academic Council of the Society; includes a note by Bernard F. Burgunder
7
9
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Sequence for a Pageant of Plays and Players
Ca. November 5, 1947
photocopy
4 leaves + 1
Original typescript in the British Museum; a dialogue between Shaw and Charles Cochran, written for St. John Ervine's B.B.C. Jubilee Theatre Programme; with explanatory note on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence
7
10
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Shaw Gives Himself Away [Frontispiece]
June 1939
pencil drawing
4 items + 2 photocopies
Two pencil portraits of Shaw by John Farleigh, and two of himself by Shaw, all being drafts for the frontispiece of Shaw's book published November 1939; on verso of one of Shaw's portraits is his autograph letter signed to John Farleigh June 26, 1939; acquired as part of the Black Girl Collection
7
11
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Short Stories; Scraps; and Shavings
n.d.
2 leaves + 1
Blurb or press release; includes explanatory note from Bernard F. Burgunder
7
12
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Shorthand note
n.d.
1 leaf + 1
Transcribed by Dan H. Laurence on separate leaf, "How small of all that human hearts endure 354 "Lines added to Goldsmith's
Traveller
, 1763-64]"
7
13
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Sir Edward Carson's Other Island
October 6, 1918
4 leaves + copies + 1
Draft of manuscript which appeared in
The Daily News
of London, October 14, 1918; includes typed manuscript; See:
The Matter with Ireland
. Ed. By David Greene and Dan Laurence. Hart-Davis / 1962, p. 185
7
14
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Speech for Mrs. Campbell
1928
photocopy
13 leaves
On Cornell Bond paper of the pencil manuscript and the typed manuscript
7
15
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Sweet shorthand
Ca. 1902-1904
3 leaves + 9
Notes in the Sweet system of shorthand, including the only known fragment of Shaw's projected play
Cromwell
; with marked photocopy, transcription, and 2 leaves of commentary deriving from Dan H. Laurence
7
16
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Taste" and "Cock Robin" [Doggerel verse written to Mrs. Patrick Campbell]
1912, 1913
1 leaf
"Taste" dated from internal evidence; "Cock Robin" appears in Mrs. Campbell's
My Life and Some Letters
, p. 265, and
Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence
, p. 91
7
17
GBS : Typed Manuscript: To the Electors of South St. Pancras
March 1904
30 leaves
Platform of Shaw and his running-mate William Geary in their campaign for seats on the London County Council; See: Shaw PR5365 M67 No. 4
7
18
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Touring in Russia [Part I]
January 1932
8 leaves + 2 + 1
With this is filed Touring in Russia [Part II], 2 leaves (pp. 16-19) excerpted from
Nash's & Pall Mall Magazine
, February 1932; an explanatory note is added on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence
7
19
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Treni 7, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28
n.d.
1 leaf
Printed card of Florin Caplazi with pencil note listing train numbers in Shaw's[?] hand, and other notes in other hands adding "dudgeon" and "The Doctor's dilemma"
7
20
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "The Unavoidable Subject"
June 1941
6 leaves + 1
Text of a proposed radio address, banned by the B.B.C.; with holograph corrections in the hand of Blanche Patch
7
21
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: An Unfinished Novel
May 14, 1887
photostats
43 leaves
Original manuscript in the National Library of Ireland; published by Constable & Co., 1958
7
22
GBS : Autograph Note: Violet Beverly
April 11, 1882
2 leaves + 2 + 1
Manuscript poem in shorthand, with sketch in margin; includes transcription of shorthand
7
23
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Vivisection"
n.d.
5 leaves + 1
Includes a carbon copy of a page, numbered 4
7
24
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
The Voice
1947
carbon copy
37 leaves + 5
Transcript of a shorthand manuscript dated 1882-83, which was itself an unfinished revision of
The Voice
by George John Vandeleur Lee; with letters by the transcriber, and explanatory note by B.F. Burgunder; See: Laurence A265, and A. Henderson
George Bernard Shaw
, pp. 945-948
7
25
GBS : Typed Manuscript:
The Voice
[copy]
1947
photocopy
37 leaves + 4
Photocopy of transcript carbon of shorthand manuscript; See: Laurence A265
7
26
GBS : Typed Manuscript: What indeed?
n.d.
carbon copy
32 leaves + 1
"Report of a lecture...delivered before The Fabian Society at Kingsway Hall, London, November 26, 1931, at 8:30 p.m."; a transcript of a lecture given by Shaw; includes explanatory note by Bernard Burgunder
7
27
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Whither Britain [transcript of a radio address]
February 6, 1934
4 leaves
From the Recorded Programmes Permanent Library
7
28
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
Widowers' Houses
August-November 1884
photostats
26 leaves
Copies of the early shorthand draft in the British Museum; with notes added on first leaf in hand of Dan H. Laurence
7
29
GBS : Autograph Note: "With Bernard Shaw's compliments"
n.d.
1 item
Card removed from
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
; October 8, 1910
7
30
GBS : Autograph Manuscript:
You Never Can Tell
[Note for files]
1898
1 leaf + 1
Refers to a letter received from Frederic Harrison and Cyril Maude; with identifying note added by Dan H. Laurence on separate leaf
Series II. Documents
8
Series III Envelopes annotated by Shaw, 1876-1905
9
1
GBS : Autograph Note: Notation on envelope which held receipt for insurance premium paid
1875
envelope
1 item
London?
9
2
GBS : Autograph Note: Notations on envelope marked "Hornet"
1876-77
envelope
1 item
Written by Shaw on face of envelope marked "Hornet" "Correspondence"
9
3
GBS : Autograph Note: Envelope labeled in Shaw's hand "Correspondence with Miss C. Southam...relative to advertisement for a copyist"
1882
envelope
1 item
London
9
4
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from [Annie?] Besant concerning "The Irrational Knot"
1886
envelope
1 item
London
9
5
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Grace Black announcing her engagement
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter of Miss Black
9
6
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter written Shaw by Grace Black concerning State Guild lecture on acting
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter addressed to Shaw by Grace Black
9
7
GBS : Autograph Note: Precis of contents of letter from John Burns who had asked Shaw to deny authorship of certain letters appearing in the
Star
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Burns's original letter; note by Shaw, "Did so 31/5/89"
9
8
GBS : Autograph Note: Notation on envelope which at one time contained a letter from James Runciman concerning
Cashel Byron's Profession
July 1889
envelope
1 item
London?
9
9
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Cassell & Co., concerning possible publication of
Fabian Essays
April 15, 1889
envelope
1 item
London; notation by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter from Cassell
9
10
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Marjory Davidson concerning her forthcoming marriage
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained the original announcement from Miss Davidson
9
11
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter addressed to Shaw by the Fabian Society which had complained of his "flippant tone at meetings"
1889
envelope
1 item + 1
London; written by Shaw on face of the envelope which contained the original letter; includes note on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder
9
10
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter concerning
Cashel Byron's Profession
from Feld & Duer
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written on envelope which contained the original letter from Feld & Duer; Shaw notes his declining their offer regarding an "abbreviated" edition of the novel
9
11
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from D. Gordon, representing Walter Scott, concerning
Cashel Byron's Profession
: "Book not selling"
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter from Gordon
9
12
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from D. Gordon representing Walter Scott, concerning
An Unsocial Socialist
1889
envelope
1 item
London; notations made on face of envelope which contained the original letter from Gordon
9
13
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from May Morris regarding back cover design for
Fabian Essays
1889
envelope
1 item
Written on face of original envelope
9
14
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received by Shaw from F.W. Proctor regarding contest elections in Chelsea, and précis of Shaw's response
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written on envelope which contained original letter from Proctor
9
15
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by John Satey[?] of the
Penny Illustrated Paper
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter from the
Penny Illustrated Paper
9
16
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter received (with draft of agreement) from Walter Scott regarding
Cashel Byron's Profession
, and Shaw's response
1889
envelope
1 item
London
9
17
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter written Shaw by the Unwin Brothers
1889
envelope
1 item
Written by Shaw on face of envelope addressed to him which contained the original letter
9
18
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received by Shaw from T. Fisher Unwin regarding
Fabian Essays
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter from Unwin
9
19
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter addressed to Shaw by T. Fisher Unwin concerning
Fabian Essays
"Withdrawn"
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained the original letter from Unwin
9
20
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter addressed to Shaw by T. Fisher Unwin, concerning
Fabian Essays
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter from Unwin
9
21
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from T. Fisher Unwin regarding
Fabian Essays
1889
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Unwin
9
22
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from T.P. O'Connor accepting Shaw's resignation as "Corno di Bassetto"
1890
envelope
1 item
London; written on envelope, stationery of
The Star
, which contained O'Connor's original letter
9
23
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Tito Pagliardini, with notation of response
1890
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Pagliardini's original letter
9
24
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Walter Scott (publishers) concerning
Fabian Essays
with brief of Shaw's reply
1890
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Walter Scott
9
25
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter stating interest by T. Fisher Unwin in
Corno di Bassetto
1890
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from that publisher
9
26
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received by Shaw from J. Kingston Barton
1891
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original announcement
9
27
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of a letter from Elkin Mathews re "Joyne's Poems" with précis of Shaw's reply
1891
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Mathews
9
28
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Walter Scott concerning U.S. rights to
Quintessence of Ibsenism
1891
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Walter Scott
9
30
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter received from Benjamin Tucker regarding
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
1891
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Tucker's original letter
9
31
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Chatto & Windus concerning publication of
The Irrational Knot
1892
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Chatto & Windus
9
32
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter from Chatto & Windus offering to publish
The Irrational Knot
and brief of Shaw's response
1892
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of the envelope which contained the original letter from Chatto & Windus
9
33
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Jim Crowell re; "Hyndman in Justice"
1892
envelope
1 item
London; written on the envelope which contained the original of Crowell's letter
9
34
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from David Nutt concerning manuscript of
Widowers' Houses
1892
envelope
1 item
London; written on envelope which contained the original letter from Nutt
9
35
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by H. Lowenfeld concerning
Arms and the Man
1894
envelope
1 item
London; written on the envelope which contained the original letter, with arms of the Prince of Wales Theatre
9
36
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter from Walter Scott regarding
Arms and the Man
1894
envelope
1 item
London; written on the face of the envelope which contained the original letter from the publishing firm
9
37
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from H.L. Brackstad regarding Scandinavian rights to Shaw's plays
1894
envelope
1 item
London; written on the face of the envelope which contained the original letter from Brackstad
9
38
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter from Walter Scott concerning
Cashel Byron's Profession
1894
envelope
1 item
London; written on envelope which contained the original letter from Walter Scott
9
39
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter from Robert Buchanan who had written a novel which included a character based on Shaw
1895
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Buchanan's original letter
9
40
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Richard Mansfield concerning
Candida
1895
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of the envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter; quote, "
Candida
impossible."
9
41
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Richard Mansfield concerning
Candida
(2)
1895
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter
9
42
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Robert Buchanan; "Chaff"
1896
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Buchanan's original letter
9
43
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Cunninghame Graham
1897
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Graham's original letter
9
44
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Mr. Bonline
1897
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Bonline's original letter
9
45
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter from S.C. Cockerell (The Morris Lectures) and Shaw's response "Send them along"
1897
envelope
1 item
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained the original letter from Cockerell
9
46
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by H. Lowenfeld
1897
envelope
1 item
London; notes Lowenfeld's desire to make a "light opera" of
Arms and the Man
; written on the face of envelope which contained Lowenfeld's original letter
9
47
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Richard Mansfield regarding Albany, New York production of
The Devil's Disciple
1897
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter
9
48
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Richard Mansfield
1897
envelope
1 item
London; concerns Shaw's percentage of
The Devil's Disciple
; written on face of envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter
9
49
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Forbes Robertson concerning the impossibility of producing
The Devil's Disciple
1897
envelope
1 item
London; written on face o the envelope which contained the original letter
9
50
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Frank Harris concerning his resignation from
The Saturday Review
1897
envelope
1 item
London
9
51
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Clement Scott
1898
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter
9
52
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from H.S. Stone concerning the copyright to
The Perfect Wagnerite
1899
envelope
1 item
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter
9
53
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of request for loan from Paul Daubig received by Shaw
1900
envelope
1 item
London; note by Shaw on face of envelope which held the original letter
9
54
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from H.W. Massingham of the
New Penny Daily
1900
envelope
1 item
London; written with brief of Shaw's response on face of envelope which contained original Massingham letter
9
55
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Thomas Common, apparently concerned with English publication of Nietzsche
1902
envelope
1 item
London; note on face of envelope which contained original letter from Common
9
56
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from J.M. Jeakes concerning the Fox and Pelican
1902
envelope
1 item
London; the Fox and Pelican was a public house in Haslemere of which Shaw was a shareholder; written on face of envelope which contained original letter
Series IV. Outgoing Correspondence
10
Undated - 1907
11
1908 -1915
12
1916 - 1920
13
1921 - 1930
14
Dodd, Mead, & Co. 1925 - 1949
15
1931 - 1937
16
1938 -1943
17
1942 - 1950
18
E.M. Wheeler 1944 - 1950
Series V. Manuscripts and Correspondence to and by others
19
A - B
20
Campbell
21
Campbell 1939 - D
22
E - K
23
Healey, George H. to Bernard F. Burgunder
24
L - Pas
25
Laurence, Dan H. (1)
26
Laurence, Dan H. (2)
27
Mushlin, M. Harry to Bernard F. Burgunder
28
Patterson, Jane
29
Pat - Shav
30
Shaw - Sz
31
T - Z
32
Watt, W.P., 1950 - 1955
Series VI. Miscellaneous Printed Material
33
A - H
34
Collected Letters
35
I - S
36
T - Z, and letters
37
Works - Reviews, etc.
Series VII. Reviews on G.B. Shaw
38-39
Series VIII. Miscellaneous Printed Material by others
40
A - C
41
D - I
42
J - L
Series IX. Statuettes
43
Series X. Miscellaneous Printed Material by others
44
M - Pa
45
Pb - R
46
S - Shaw Society
47
Shaw Festival 1982 - 1991
48
Shaw Society - Z
Series XI. Photographs of Shaw
49-50
51
A - F
52
G - M
53
N - Z
Series XII. Photographs of Shaw's plays
54
A - C
55
D - O
56
P - Z
Series XIII. Shaviana
57
Series XIV. Shaviana Hat
58
Series XV. Printed Shaviana
59
A - Shaw (F)
60
Shaw (G - Z)
Laing Collection Clippings
61
(1)
62
(2)
63
(3)
64
(4)
Series XVI. Playbills, Posters, Pressbooks
65
Series XVII. Theater Programs
66
A - B
67
C
68
D - G
69
H - Maj
70
Mak - Mz
71
O - Sa
72
Sb - Z
73
Miscellaneous
Series XVIII. Arts Theatre Club Photographs (8x10)
74
Unidentified, A
75
B
76
Ca - Cn
77
Co - Cz
78
D
79
E
80
F
81
G
82
Ha - Hob
83
Hoc - Hz
84
I
85
J - L
86
Maa - Mas
87
Mat - Mz
88
N - O
89
P - Q
90
R
91
Sa - Sh
92
Si - Sz
93
Ta - Tra
94
Trb - Tz
95
U - V
96
W - Z
Series XIX. Arts Theatre Club Photographs (8x14)
97
Unidentified, A - B
98
C - G
99
H - J
100
K - L
101
M - N
102
O - R
103
S
104
T
105
U - Z
Series XX. Arts Theatre Club Photographs (11x17)
106
A - C
107
D - G
108
H - L
109
M - Q
110
R - S
111
T - Z