Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, [ca. 1810]-1990.
Collection Number: 4617
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, [ca. 1810]-1990.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4617
Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Burgunder, Bernard F.
Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940.
Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946.
Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.
Halls, Robert James, 1873-1932.
Hopkins, Tighe, 1856-1919.
Jackson, Ann Elder.
Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929.
Lawrence, Gertrude.
Jones, Henry Arthur.
Laurence, Dan H.
Lawrence, Gertrude.
Loewenstein, Fritz Erwin, 1901-
O\'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
Patch, Blanche, 1878-
Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964.
Perugini, Kate, 1839-1929.
Shaw, Charlotte Frances, 1857-1943.
Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976.
Thring, George Herbert, 1859-1941.
Tunney, Gene.
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Winsten, Clare, 1894-1989.
British Broadcasting Corporation
Quanitities:
53.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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. Also, recordings of some of Shaw's radio broadcasts, and a 1962
BBC broadcast of Blanche Patch remembering Shaw. Also included are a bronze cast of
a bust of Shaw by Clare Winsten, 1946, together with a letter from Shaw to her husband
Stephen suggesting her as the artist for the bust (June 13, 1946), and related photographs,
letters, and other materials concerning the bust's appearance at the opening of the
St. Pancras Library and Shaw Theatre in 1971.
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.
Additional materials relating to Ann Elder Jackson. Includes autograph letters, notes
and postcards from George Bernard Shaw to Ms. Jackson. Subjects include travel plans,
rehearsal schedules, and diary engagements in addition to detailed instructions for
Elder as his secretary.
Researchers may view one folder at a time.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, #4617. Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
A large collection of books by and about Shaw (ca. 2530 titles) is also housed in
the repository.
Bound Manuscripts - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
- Bd.Ms.1, AM Address Book. c. 1920-1950
- Bd.Ms.2 +, TM Alps and Balkans [Later known as Arms and the Man]. 1894
- Bd.Ms.3 +++, Androcles and the Lion Costume and Properties Drawings. 1912
- Bd.Ms.4 +, Arms and the Man scriptbook for Captain Bluntschli. 1894
- Bd.Ms.5 ++, TM & Proofs The Artstruck Englishman. 1917
- Bd.Ms.6 +, Shaw Scrapbook. 1904-1913
- Bd.Ms.7 ++, Candida items. March 1895
- Bd.Ms.8 +, TM Caesar and Cleopatra Prologue. 1912
- Bd.Ms.9 +, TM[copy] Chance-Medley. 1936
- Bd.Ms.10 +, Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings. 1913
- Bd.Ms.11 +, Miscellaneous Clippings File. 1884-1944
- Bd.Ms.12, Shaw's Dublin Testimonial. 1878
- Bd.Ms.13 ++, Elgar, Edward T[printed]M of The Severn Suite. 1931
- Bd.Ms.14 ++, Shaw. AM Evans, An Appreciation. 1903
- Bd.Ms.15 ++, Farleigh, John D[woodcuts] The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. 1932
- Bd.Ms.16 ++, Ewens, Eric TM Shaw's First Play. September 1965
- Bd.Ms.17-18 +, Books From Shaw's Library. October 1970
- Bd.Ms.19 ++, Shaw TM & Printed Geneva. 1938
- Bd.Ms.20, Shaw AM Getting Married. 1907-1908
- Bd.Ms.21, Shaw's Glass Photo. c. 1920
- Bd.Ms.22 ++, Shaw TM How to Become a Musical Critic. 1960
- Bd.Ms.23, Shaw Printed M How to Become a Musical Critic. 1960
- Bd.Ms.24 +, Shaw's Music Reviews. 1960
- Bd.Ms.25 ++, D Inventory & Valuation of Property at 10 Adelphi Terrace W.C., London. 1908
- Bd.Ms.26 +, Shaw TL & AL to Lord Kennet of the Dene.c. 1922
- Bd.Ms.27 ++, Shaw AM[fragment] The Irrational Knot. 1886
- Bd.Ms.28 +, Shaw TL[carbon] to Charlotte (Payne-Townshend) Shaw. 1896-1934
- Bd.Ms.29, "Leonora" A[note] to Shaw. July 1878
- Bd.Ms.30-31 ++, Shaw AM[fragment] Love Among the Artists. 1900
- Bd.Ms.32 ++, Shaw D Man and Superman. June-July 1903
- Bd.Ms.33 +, "Masks and Faces" Picture Play Scrapbook. 1917
- Bd.Ms.34 ++, Scrapbook of Shaw Clippings. 1892-1895
- Bd.Ms.35 ++, Shaw Printed Music in London. 1891-1894
- Bd.Ms.36 ++, Shaw AM Musical Themes from Wagner. c. 1885
- Bd.Ms.37 ++, Shaw TMS Conscientious Objectors. May 1916
- Bd.Ms.38, O'Connor, Mrs. T. P. AM & Printed "Bernard Shaw's Superman Manuscript". April 1929
- Bd.Ms.39, Shaw AM Political Science Lecture Note. April 11, 1933
- Bd.Ms.40 +, Shaw AM Honour to J. T. Grein Speech. 1928
- Bd.Ms.41 ++, Shaw TL[carbon] to Molly Tompkins. 1921-1940
- Bd.Ms.42 +, Gene Tunney Letters. 1929-1940
- Bd.Ms.43 ++, TM The Upanishads. Undated
- Bd.Ms.44 +, Burgunder, Bernard F. AM & TM Desiderata Lists. Undated
- Bd.Ms.45 +, Wells, Geoffrey H. Printed Bibliography of the Books and Pamphlets of George Bernard Shaw. 1928
- Bd.Ms.46 ++, Bernard Shaw manuscript fragments of "Widowers' houses". 1884-1892
- Bd.Ms.47 +, Shaw A[shorthand]M The Worst Journey in the World Postscript. 1948
- Bd.Ms.48 +, Shaw TM The Garden of Eden [In the Beginning]. 1918
- Bd.Ms.49 +, Deruelle, Marcel TM G.B. Shaw als Dramaturg. 1922
- Bd.Ms.50 ++, Motoring Papers and Pictures. 1908-1939
- Bd.Ms.51 ++, Letter to Lee Keedick. December 30, 1918
Names:
Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Jackson, Ann Elder.
Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946.
Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.
Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929.
Lawrence, Gertrude.
Loewenstein, Fritz Erwin, 1901-
O\'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
Patch, Blanche.
Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Shaw, Charlotte Frances, 1857-1943.
Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976.
Thring, George Herbert.
Tunney, Gene, 1897-1978.
Wells, H. G. (Henry George), 1866-1946.
Arts Theatre Club (London, England)
St. Pancras Library
Places:
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Subjects:
Authors, English.
Authors, Irish.
Theatrical posters.
Theater -- Production and direction.
Authors and theater.
Socialism and theater.
English literature -- History and criticism.
Art criticism -- England.
Musical criticism -- England.
Socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources.
Irish literature.
Modernism (Literature).
English literature -- 20th century.
Theater -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Drama -- England -- History -- Sources.
Form and Genre Terms:
Busts (figures)
Portraits.
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I Manuscripts
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A - Ad
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript [fragment] "actually claims to be the first playwright
to put sexual love on the stage,..."
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n.d. |
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Scope and Contents
See: Harris, Frank. Bernard Shaw. New York, 1931. p. 233.; with transcript
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Address Book
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[pre-1900] |
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photostat
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133 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Made from the Microfilm of the address book in the British Museum, numbered 50715
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Address Book
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ca. 1902 |
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photostat
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55 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Address to the U.S.A. [fragment]
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Summer 1940 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Address to the U.S.A.
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Summer 1940 |
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copy
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1 item
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Scope and Contents
From the Tunney Collection
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The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
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Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
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illustration proofs
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151 items
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 1) Title page
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n.d. |
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3 proofs
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3 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 2) Headpiece with capital W
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n.d. |
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3 proofs
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2 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 3) Lord of Hosts
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n.d. |
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4 proofs
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4 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 4) God of Job
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n.d. |
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4 proofs
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4 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 5) Ecclesiastes
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n.d. |
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8 proofs
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4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
3 leaves mounted together on stationery of M.H. Mushlin
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 6) King Richard the Lion
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n.d. |
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7 proofs
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5 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 7) Micah
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n.d. |
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3 proofs
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2 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 8) Myopic professor
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n.d. |
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9 proofs
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8 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 9) Roman soldier
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n.d. |
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12 proofs
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8 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 10) Conjuror
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n.d. |
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12 proofs
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8 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 11) Ancient fisherman
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n.d. |
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12 proofs
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6 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 12) Explorers
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n.d. |
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9 proofs
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5 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 13) Sculptor
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n.d. |
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16 proofs
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11 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 14) Arab
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n.d. |
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7 proofs
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4 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 15) Voltaire
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n.d. |
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8 proofs
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7 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 16) Irishman
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n.d. |
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10 proofs
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6 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 17) Too busy to search
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n.d. |
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8 proofs
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6 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 18) Headpiece of typewriter and books
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n.d. |
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5 proofs
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3 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 19) Peace
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n.d. |
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1 proof
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1 leaf
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 20) Tailpiece of spear and harp
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n.d. |
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2 proofs
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
(See also #21)
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 21) Endpapers
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n.d. |
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2 proofs
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6 leaves
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Scope and Contents
One proof used for trial layout of front and back covers of the book; also contains
proof of Tailpiece of spear and harp
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration proofs] 22) Back cover design
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n.d. |
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2 proofs
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2 leaves
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| Box 1 | Folder 28-67 |
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
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illustration sketches; pencil, ink, and watercolor
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40 items
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Scope and Contents
Preparatory sketches, for the book published in December 1932; all items formed part
of the Black Girl Collection, acquired by Cornell in October 1984
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 1) Title page
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June 15, 1932 |
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pencil;
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Scope and Contents
On verso is written Shaw's autographed letter signed to Farleigh
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 2) Title page
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n.d. |
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pencil
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 3) Title page
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 4) Headpiece with capital W
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 5) Lord of Hosts
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 6) God of Job
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 7) Ecclesiastes
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n.d. |
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pencil
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 8) Ecclesiastes
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 9) King Richard the Lion
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 10) Micah
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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Scope and Contents
Also contains a note in Shaw's hand on verso
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 11) Micah
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October 30, 1932 |
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watercolor
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Scope and Contents
With a hinged overlay; on verso is Shaw's autographed letter signed to Farleigh
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 12) Micah
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n.d. |
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pencil tracing
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Scope and Contents
With note on verso by Shaw; (see also #34)
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 13) Micah
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 14) Myopic professor
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 15) Myopic professor
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 16) Beanstalk
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n.d. |
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ink
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Scope and Contents
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.
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 17) Roman soldier as Bobadil
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n.d. |
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ink
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 18) Roman soldier as Tin Wellington
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n.d. |
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ink
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| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 19) Roman soldier, 1st version
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 20) Roman soldier, 2nd version
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 21) Conjuror, on Malvern Hotel stationery
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n.d. |
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pencil
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| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 22) Conjuror, on plain stationery
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n.d. |
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pencil
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| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 23) Conjuror
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 24) Ancient fisherman
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 25) Explorers
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 26) Sculptor
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 27) Arab
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 28) Voltaire
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 56 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 29) Irishman
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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Scope and Contents
With draft of Shaw's autographed manuscript; colophon note written on verso
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| Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 30) Irishman, 1st version
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 31) Irishman, 2nd version
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 32) Too busy to search
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 60 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 33) Headpiece of typewriter and books
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 34) Headpiece of typewriter and books
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n.d. |
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pencil
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Scope and Contents
With note by Shaw; drafts for Micah on verso
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| Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 35) Headpiece of typewriter and books
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 63 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 36) Peace
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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Scope and Contents
With note by Shaw
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| Box 1 | Folder 64 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 37) Peace
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n.d. |
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pencil
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Scope and Contents
With note by Shaw
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| Box 1 | Folder 65 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 38) Tailpiece of spear and harp
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 66 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 39) Endpaper design, single unit
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 67 |
Farleigh : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [Illustration sketches] 40) Cover design
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n.d. |
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watercolor
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| Box 1 | Folder 68 |
GBS : The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [proof sheets]
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October 10, 1933 |
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photocopy
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5 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Made from Photostats of originals in National Library of Scotland; showing autograph
revisions by Shaw
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| Box 1 | Folder 69 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God [pre-proof] Title page
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1932 |
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12 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God [stage version]
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September 1968 |
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copy
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91 leaves +1 item
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Scope and Contents
"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
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An-B
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Anecdote of an incident which took place on the opening night
of On the Rocks
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typescript
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
With holograph additions and notes by Shaw
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "after Flaxman" [& drawing]
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n.d. |
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Manuscript; transcript; and copy
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1 leaf + 2
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
GBS : American Patriots and Persecutions: A Letter by G. Bernard Shaw
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July 1919 |
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photocopy
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3 leaves + 2
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Androcles and the Lion
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ca. 1950? |
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Carbon copy; interleaved in paper binder
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49 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Date unknown; with some stage directions in margins, mostly in pencil
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Annajanska
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January 9-10, 1918 |
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3 leaves + copies
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Scope and Contents
Rehearsal notes; produced at the Coliseum, January 21, 1918; copy included
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Answers to interview questions
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August 27, 1945 |
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ink
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Answers to questions on divorce
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1920? |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Three typed questions with Shaw's holograph answers
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Arms and the Man; Great Catherine; You Never Can Tell
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n.d. |
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24 leaves + copies
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Scope and Contents
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)
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Designs for men's costumes for Arms and the Man
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n.d. |
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5 leaves
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Arms and the Man & The Chocolate Soldier
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1927-28 |
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1 leaf + 2 + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Arms and the Man & The Chocolate Soldier (2)
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1927 |
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2 leaves + abbreviated typed transcript of 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
A statement concerning the relationship between Shaw's Arms and the Man and Oscar Strauss's The Chocolate Soldier (original-Der Tapfere Soldat)
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Augustus Does His Bit
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January 22, 1917 |
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8 leaves + copies
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Scope and Contents
Rehearsal notes; various dates, in Shaw's hand, appear on the manuscript
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: "Authentic Shavian Democracy"
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n.d. |
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4 leaves + 1 + 1
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Scope and Contents
Article appeared in Time and Tide of February 10, 1945; later reprinted in Time and Tide Anthology in 1956; note by Bernard Burgunder included
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Manuscript Signed: Autograph
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n.d. |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Corner of a document cut off to show only Shaw's signature; in envelope
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Draft scheme of Autumn Lectures by GBS
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n.d. |
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copy?
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7 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Lists a series of topics for thirteen lectures, and possible speakers
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Back to Methuselah [Preface][proof A]
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1938? |
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printed
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Back to Methuselah [Preface][proof B]
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1938? |
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printed
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Back to Methuselah [specimen pages]
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ca. 1938 |
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Printed
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2 leaves + 1 + copies
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Scope and Contents
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' ..."
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Back to Methuselah [Title page][proof A]
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1938 |
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Printed
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
For the Limited Editions club Edition, which was published in 1939 with a quite different
title page
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Back to Methuselah [Title page][proof B]
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1939 |
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printed
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "A Balfour Ballad"
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1888 |
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shorthand
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
In envelope
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| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "A Balfour Ballad"
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January 23, 1888 |
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3 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
Date and Place given are those of publication in The Star; the verse was published unsigned
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| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "The Best Books for Children"
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n.d. |
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photocopy
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4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Article written for unidentified periodical; with editor's introductory note added
below title; copy of manuscript in the British Museum
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| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: "Brogue Shock"
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ca. March 1917 |
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8 leaves +1
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Scope and Contents
Article, with corrections in Shaw's hand; published in The Nation, March 24, 1917
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C-F
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Caesar and Cleopatra [one page textual revision]
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ca. 1929? |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
"This textual change was written for the Malvern Festival of 1929." -- B.F. Burgunder;
includes typed note by Burgunder, November 1970
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| Box 3 | Folder 1a |
GBS : Autograph Typescript: Caesar and Cleopatra, [prologue]
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ca. 1928 |
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5 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Signed inscription by GBS on first page
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Note(?): "Camera repairs" and an address
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n.d. |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Address of Alfred Allen
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Candida [fragment]
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1897? |
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5 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Captain Brassbound's Conversion cast list suggestions
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1912? |
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5 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Note: on the German piracy of Cashel Byron's Profession in the journal Aus Fremden Zungen
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December 7, 1906 |
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Copy
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14 pages + 1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
The copy of the pirated Cashel which has been detached from the journal; with note by Shaw; typed explanation by
Bernard Burgunder
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: The Cassone
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Aug. 1889-Nov. 1890 |
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photostat
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30 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Copies of the original manuscript in the British Museum; includes notes in Dan H.
Laurence's hand
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Cassone
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Aug. 1889-Nov. 1890 |
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photostat
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27 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Copies of the original manuscript in the British Museum: a dramatic fragment; edited
in Dan H. Laurence's hand
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Copyright information from the Library of Congress
|
1949? |
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carbon copy
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9 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Manuscript: Daily Worker article
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April 24, 1946 |
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galley proof
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2 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
A holograph note to Shaw also on proof; signature unidentified; London
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Dialogue of the Devil & St. Augustine -- Scenario
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October 1909 |
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photocopy
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12 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Original manuscript in the British Museum; includes explanatory note on first leaf
by Dan H. Laurence
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Drama and the Microphone; Broadcasting and the Art of
the Theatre; A Symposium of Opinions
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ca. 1925 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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)
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| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Material connected with "E.H. Bennett and Company," published in Colburn's New Monthly, February 1883
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1883 |
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5 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Essay on T.E. Lawrence [fragment]
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n.d. |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Includes typed comments by Dan H. Laurence, February 17, 1968; See: T.E. Lawrence By His Friends. London, 1937. pp. 243-44
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| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Everybody's Political What's What, or Machiavelli Modernized
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n.d. |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Holograph corrections in Shaw's hand appear on the manuscript
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| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Manuscript: The Fabian Society. Election of the Executive Committee, 1907-8
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May 1907 |
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invoice
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Received from George Standring, Printer and Publisher; with note on separate leaf
by Dan H. Laurence
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| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Manuscript: Fanny's First Play rehearsal notes
|
February 10, 1915 |
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14 leaves + 1 + copies
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Scope and Contents
From the production at Kingsway Theatre, February 13, 1915 (14 pages); 1 page typed
note by Bernard F. Burgunder, July 10, 1963
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| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Fanny's First Play, cast list for production
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April 19, 1911 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Date of first production?; a different cast is penciled in next to the original list,
in a different hand
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| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Manuscript: Fanny's First Play -- Prologue
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n.d. |
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typescript
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1 item
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Scope and Contents
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)
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| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Fiction [lecture]
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April 1887 |
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photocopy
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29 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 3 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Manuscript: File folder
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n.d. |
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1 item
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Scope and Contents
Labelled "phonetics" in Shaw's hand
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| Box 3 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Flyleaves
|
1977 |
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typescript
|
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51 leaves + 11
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 3 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Manuscript: Forbes-Robertson, Mr. Bernard Shaw's tribute
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n.d. |
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typescript
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Headed "With the compliments of Percy Burton, General Manager for Sire Johnston Forbes-Robertson
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| Box 3 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Manuscript: "From the Preface to Buoyant Billions"
|
n.d. |
|
copy
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3 leaves + 1
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|||
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Scope and Contents
For the Malvern Festival Book of 1949; from a rehearsal copy of Buoyant Billions, corrected; includes a typed note of explanation
|
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Diaries
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Diaries -- shorthand
|
1880-1897 |
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photostat
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54 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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Autograph Manuscript: Diaries -- transcript
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photostat
|
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446 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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)
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 1, 1885
|
1885 |
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photostat
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24 leaves
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 2, 1886
|
1886 |
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photostat
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28 leaves
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 3, 1887
|
1887 |
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photostat
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28 leaves
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 4, 1888
|
1888 |
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photostat
|
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49 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
First two leaves stapled together
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 5, 1889
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1889 |
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photostat
|
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56 leaves
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Scope and Contents
First two leaves stapled together
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| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 6, 1890
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1890 |
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photostat
|
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62 leaves
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Scope and Contents
First two leaves are stapled together
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 7, 1891
|
1891 |
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photostat
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58 leaves
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| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 8, 1893
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1893 |
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photostat
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89 leaves
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 9, 1894
|
1894 |
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photostat
|
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32 leaves
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Scope and Contents
First two leaves are stapled together
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| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 10, 1895
|
1895 |
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photostat
|
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17 leaves
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 11, 1896
|
1896 |
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photostat
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8 leaves
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: [Diaries -- transcript] Folder 12, 1897
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1897 |
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photostat
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Two leaves stapled together
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| Box 4 | Folder 13.5 |
GBS : Autograph [shorthand] Manuscript : Dublin Gaiety Theatre
|
May, 1946 |
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1 leaf + 3 leaves + 3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Shorthand draft of Shaw's article, with transcription and letter to Mr. Dixon, telling
him it was just found, May 18, 1948
|
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G-I
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: The Garden of Hesperides
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n.d. |
|
copy
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5 leaves + 2
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|||
|
Scope and Contents
Original manuscript in the British Museum; includes typed transcript edited partly
in the hand of Dan H. Laurence
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Getting Married
|
1976 |
|
transcript
|
|||
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79 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Getting Married
|
1976 |
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carbon copy
|
|||
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79 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Carbon copy of a transcript made by Barbara Smoker
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Getting Married
|
1907-1908 |
|
copy
|
|||
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109 leaves
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Photocopies from which Barbara Smoker transcribed the shorthand text of the play
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Getting Married [page 1]
|
1975 |
|
photographic negatives and prints
|
|||
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7 leaves
|
|||
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Girl with the Golden Voice
|
ca. August 1935 |
|
copy
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3 leaves + 1
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|||
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Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Glastonbury Skit
|
August 1916 |
|
copy
|
|||
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4 leaves + 5
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|
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of the original manuscript in the British Museum; a dramatic interpolation;
includes typed transcript, edited partly in the hand of Dan H. Laurence
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Hannen Swaffer's Story
|
November 17, 1943 |
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1 leaf
|
|||
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Heartbreak House [autograph rehearsal notes]
|
October 18, 1921 |
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16 leaves + copies
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Produced at Court; backed by rehearsal notes of John Bull's Other Island
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of the War
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n.d. |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Press release, London?; with holograph corrections in Shaw's hand
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "How To Talk Intelligently About the War"
|
1941? |
|
copy
|
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7 leaves + 1
|
|||
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Scope and Contents
There is no record of the publication of this essay; includes accompanying note from
Dan Laurence, via Bernard Burgunder
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "I have been invited by The Independent Labor Party to give
you..." [fragment]
|
n.d. |
|
copy
|
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3 leaves + 1
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|||
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Scope and Contents
Seems to be a partial transcript of a recording
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: The Inca of Perusalem [autograph rehearsal notes]
|
n.d. |
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2 leaves
|
|||
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Scope and Contents
Produced at the Criterion (Pioneer Player production) December 16, 1917
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Inquiries for articles
|
Apr. 5, Oct. 21, 1900 |
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2 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
According to enclosed note by Bernard Burgunder, these are a record kept by Shaw of
requests by various journals and individuals for articles
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| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Inscription in Cranach Press Hamlet
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ca. July 1949 |
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copy
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Inscription in First Folio
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ca. July 1949 |
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photostat
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism -- Author's Note
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April 12, 1929 |
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4 leaves + printed version
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Scope and Contents
Holograph corrections
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| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Interview concerning the publication of the Shaw-Terry correspondence
in response to an attack on Shaw by Gordon Craig [extract]
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November 25, 1931 |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Interview with Bishop now a release from the publicity department of Putnam Books;
New York
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| Box 5 | Folder 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
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1931 |
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13 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Published in The Observor, 1931; with holograph corrections in Shaw's hand
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| Box 5 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Manuscript: Interview with Shaw on politics, women, religion,...
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February 20, 1937 |
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galley proof
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2 sheets
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Scope and Contents
London
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| Box 5 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Introduction / Cecil Chesterton / Cecil's Anti-Puritanism
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n.d. |
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4 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
Holograph corrections; includes note by Bernard F. Burgunder
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| Box 5 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: "It is idle, and somewhat exasperating, to talk
of..."
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August 6, 1914 |
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2 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
One leaf of holograph, two leaves of typed manuscript; on the war
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J-P
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| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: John Bull's Other Island [set design]
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n.d. |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: List of things to be checked when purchasing a new car
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n.d. |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Includes note by Bernard Burgunder
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Literary Note
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ca. February 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Macbeth Skit
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January 10, 1916 |
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copy
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7 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Major Barbara
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Ca. April 1922 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Note for files; records authorization given to the Mansfield House Players to perform
Major Barbara April 29, 1922
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Major Barbara [scenes for film]
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1944? |
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Typescript
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24 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Memorandum on Mrs. Warren's Profession in America
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August 20, 1903 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Strachur, Scotland
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Memorandum of "Royalty Shares" in the publication of the Shaw-Terry
correspondence in 1931
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n.d. |
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1 leaf
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| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum
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ca. 1879 |
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photostat
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30 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Review of a production by Henry Irving, with editor's comments; original manuscript
in the British Museum
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| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "The most profusely punctuated book in the English language
is..."
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n.d. |
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copy?
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: A New Ending for Clemence Dane's Cousin Muriel
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March 27, 1940 |
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copy
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2 leaves + 4
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Scope and Contents
From a letter(?) to Edith Evans; with photocopies of related materials, and an explanatory
note on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence
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| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: "The New York press may return"
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April 11, 1933 |
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photographic prints
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Nine Years of Failure as a Novelist Ending in Success as a
Critic [fragment]
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n.d. |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
An early draft of an essay published in Sixteen Self-Sketches; with a note by Dan Laurence
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| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Notations concerning staff salaries for the Fabian Society
|
n.d. |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
London?; on verso of copy of portion of account sheets; Dan Laurence "during World
War I"
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| Box 6 | Folder 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
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ca. November 1900 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; with broker's receipt from the sale
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| Box 6 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Note on Samuel Butler's notebooks
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March 18, 1949 |
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5 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Notes--Miscellaneous
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various dates |
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5 leaves + 2
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Scope and Contents
Notes written on scraps of paper and envelopes; two shorthand notes are accompanied
by transcriptions by Dan H. Laurence
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| Box 6 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Notes by the way
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ca. April 1940 |
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5 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
Very casual note on Hitler, anti-Semitism, and WWII; published in Time and Tide uon October 12, 1940; with a note by Bernard Burgunder
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| Box 6 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Notes for Mr. Curtis Brown
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December 30, 1928 |
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photocopy
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Photocopy of the manuscript, with the dealer's description; concerns a publishing
contract for Flying Visits, by Sir Philip Sassoon
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| Box 6 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: On corporeal punishment
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April 4, 1924 |
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manuscript + photocopies
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1 leaf + copy
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Scope and Contents
Labeled "1/4/1124 [sic]"; the manuscript concerns "the anachronism of corporeal punishment
in schools"
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| Box 6 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: On Going to Church
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n.d. |
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28 leaves + 1 blank
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Scope and Contents
Revised in his hand; with his autograph letter signed added at end to Arthur Brentano,
December 2, 1911
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| Box 6 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: On The Rocks [sketch for playbill]
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November 1933 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
See his Autograph Letter Signed to John Farleigh, November 16, 1933
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| Box 6 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: On the True Signification of the term Gentleman
|
December 11, 1879 |
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8 leaves + 2
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 6 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Orkney and Shetland--Information for Motorists"
|
August 1925 |
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carbon copy
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8 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Passion play
|
February 1878 |
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photostats
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51 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Original manuscript in the British Museum; the first page is dated in Shaw's hand;
published by the Windhover Press, 1971
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| Box 6 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Poem written on verso of envelope addressed to Shaw by
Elinor Huddart? [shorthand draft]
|
ca. March 1882 |
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1 envelope + 1
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Scope and Contents
London; See enclosed note with comments of Dan Laurence
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 26.5 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Unpublished love poem in Shorthand [shorthand draft]
|
Apr.23, 1883 |
|
2 leaves + 2 leaves + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Poem apparently written for Alice Lockett with transcription and note from
James F. Drake, Inc describing it. Also contains a second 8 line poem about Rosy and
Kate Stickerstone.
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| Box 6 | Folder 27 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Precis...The World
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| Box 6 | Folder 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
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Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 29 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: The Principles that Govern the Dramatist
|
May 1, 1912 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 30 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Private note
|
n.d. |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Concerns Hubert Bland and others
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 31 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Pygmalion, a Scenario
|
ca. April 1938 |
|
photocopy
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148 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
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
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Q-Z
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| Box 7 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Note Signed: Questionnaire
|
ca. 1937 |
|
1 item
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|
Scope and Contents
Mimeographed questionnaire, with Shaw's autograph replies; sent by National Education
Association
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Questionnaire Concerning George Sylvester Viereck
|
February 15, 1935 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Shaw's handwritten answers to thirteen questions typed on stationery of Elmer Gertz,
attorney-at-law, Chicago
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| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Questionnaire with autograph replies
|
December 8, 1932 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
Includes note by Bernard F. Burgunder
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 3A |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Initialed: Interview regarding "The Apple Cart" with answers
written in GBS's hand
|
February 2, 1930 |
|
11 leaves
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| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "The Rationalization of Russia" [notes for lecture]
|
February 1, 1932 |
|
5 leaves + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Capetown; notes, with listings of topics, catchwords, and key phrases
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Reply to Gerald Bullett's proposal for simplified spelling
|
March 1948? |
|
2 leaves + 2
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Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Report of the Dramatists Club Sub-Committee on the Employment
of Children in the Theatre"
|
ca. May 1914 |
|
carbon copy
|
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15 leaves + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Resolution proposed by Shaw
|
n.d. |
|
1 leaf + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
Partly in Shaw's hand; with explanatory note on separate leaf, "...Presumably related
to activities of the National Theatre Shakespeare Memorial Committee"
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| Box 7 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Royal Society of Literature proposal by Shaw, seconded
by Edmund Gosse
|
June 30-July 15, 1922 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
The proposal was made to the Academic Council of the Society; includes a note by Bernard
F. Burgunder
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Sequence for a Pageant of Plays and Players
|
Ca. November 5, 1947 |
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photocopy
|
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4 leaves + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 7 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Shaw Gives Himself Away [Frontispiece]
|
June 1939 |
|
pencil drawing
|
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4 items + 2 photocopies
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Short Stories; Scraps; and Shavings
|
n.d. |
|
2 leaves + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
Blurb or press release; includes explanatory note from Bernard F. Burgunder
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Shorthand note
|
n.d. |
|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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]"
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| Box 7 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Sir Edward Carson's Other Island
|
October 6, 1918 |
|
4 leaves + copies + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 7 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Speech for Mrs. Campbell
|
1928 |
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photocopy
|
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13 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
On Cornell Bond paper of the pencil manuscript and the typed manuscript
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Sweet shorthand
|
Ca. 1902-1904 |
|
3 leaves + 9
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Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Taste" and "Cock Robin" [Doggerel verse written to Mrs. Patrick
Campbell]
|
1912, 1913 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
"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
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| Box 7 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: To the Electors of South St. Pancras
|
March 1904 |
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30 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Touring in Russia [Part I]
|
January 1932 |
|
8 leaves + 2 + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Treni 7, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28
|
n.d. |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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"
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "The Unavoidable Subject"
|
June 1941 |
|
6 leaves + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Text of a proposed radio address, banned by the B.B.C.; with holograph corrections
in the hand of Blanche Patch
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: An Unfinished Novel
|
May 14, 1887 |
|
photostats
|
|||
|
43 leaves
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Original manuscript in the National Library of Ireland; published by Constable & Co.,
1958
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Violet Beverly
|
April 11, 1882 |
|
2 leaves + 2 + 1
|
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Scope and Contents
Manuscript poem in shorthand, with sketch in margin; includes transcription of shorthand
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Vivisection"
|
n.d. |
|
5 leaves + 1
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Includes a carbon copy of a page, numbered 4
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Voice
|
1947 |
|
carbon copy
|
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|
37 leaves + 5
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|
Scope and Contents
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
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| Box 7 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Voice [copy]
|
1947 |
|
photocopy
|
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37 leaves + 4
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|
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of transcript carbon of shorthand manuscript; See: Laurence A265
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: What indeed?
|
n.d. |
|
carbon copy
|
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32 leaves + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
"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
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| Box 7 | Folder 27 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript: Whither Britain [transcript of a radio address]
|
February 6, 1934 |
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4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
From the Recorded Programmes Permanent Library
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 28 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Widowers' Houses
|
August-November 1884 |
|
photostats
|
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26 leaves
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Copies of the early shorthand draft in the British Museum; with notes added on first
leaf in hand of Dan H. Laurence
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 29 |
GBS : Autograph Note: "With Bernard Shaw's compliments"
|
n.d. |
|
1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Card removed from The Dark Lady of the Sonnets; October 8, 1910
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 30 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: You Never Can Tell [Note for files]
|
1898 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Refers to a letter received from Frederic Harrison and Cyril Maude; with identifying
note added by Dan H. Laurence on separate leaf
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Series II. Documents
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| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Béla Blau and Associates : Typed Document: In the matter of George Bernard Shaw's
plays presented by the Theatre Guild, Inc.
|
June 1, 1926 |
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9 leaves + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
New York; includes a note by Bernard F. Burgunder
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 1.5 |
Shaw: Printed Document: British Museum Reading Room Request Ticketby George Bernard
Shaw [draft]
|
[Oct., 1887?] |
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form
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Blank form except for numbers written in Shaw's hand.
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Mrs. Patrick Campbell : Typed Document Signed: Agreement [with Constance Smedley]
|
December 6, 1901 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Concerns performance rights for the play Gipsie Marie by Anne Constance (Smedley) Armfield
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Mrs. Patrick Campbell : Typed Document Signed: Memorandum of agreement [with James
Mentieth Graham]
|
December 26, 1899 |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Concerns performance rights for the play Marianaby José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, as translated by J.M. Graham
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| Box 8 | Folder 4 |
R. & R. Clark, Ltd. Printers : Document: Bill for the printing of proofs of Shaw's
Cymbeline Refinished
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June 30, 1937 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Edinburgh; with explanatory note on separate leaf
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| Box 8 | Folder 4.5 |
Contract: Autograph Document : Contract forIn Good King Charles's Golden Days
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Feb.23, 1948 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; Terms and conditions form filled out in autograph by Shaw for the
Malvern Company to produce in 1948 the play.
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| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
R. & R. Clark, Ltd. Printers : Typed Document: List of all editions, impressions,
and copies of Shaw's works
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Sept.? 30, 1927 |
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8 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Printed for Mr. Grant Richards, Messrs. Constable & Co., Ltd. and Messrs. Macmillan
& Co., Ltd.; Edinburgh
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| Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Douglas Cockerell and Son : Autograph Document: Bill to Shaw for "resizing, repairing,
and rebinding Eikon Basilike"
|
Aug. 1945 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Letchworth, Herts; the bill is marked paid, and is from a firm of "Bookbinders & Makers
of Marble Paper"
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| Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Duffield & Co. : Typed Document: Agreement between Shaw and Duffield & Co.
|
Dec. 20, 1906 |
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copy
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2 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
Concerns the plates and copies of Shaw's previously published works; with note by
Bernard F. Burgunder
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| Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Faversham, William : Typed Document: Contract to produce Getting Marriedby George Bernard Shaw [draft]
|
1916 |
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carbon copy
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4 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
With handwritten revisions
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 8.5 |
Fabian Society : Printed Document: Receipt of dues.
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Mar.17, 1897 |
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form
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Completed form crediting G. B. Shaw his two pounds and two shillings 1896-1897 dues
to the Fabian Society.
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| Box 8 | Folder 9 |
Gibbs, Bamforth and Company (Luton) Ltd. : Document: Invoice for Saint Joanfolders
|
Oct. 20, 1947 |
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1 leaf + 2
|
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Scope and Contents
Addressed to G. Bernard Shaw, with note added in Shaw's hand; includes photocopy of
printed Saint Joanfolder, showing text by Shaw concerning the sculpture made for him by Clare Winsten
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 10 |
Gurly, Walter Bagnall : Document: Deed of Appointment
|
Oct. 30, 1869 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Dublin; certified copy (made January 9, 1962) of a deed assigning money to W.B. Gurly's
son Walter John Gurly and to W.B. Gurly's daughter Lucinda Elizabeth (Gurly) Shaw,
mother of George Bernard Shaw
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| Box 8 | Folder 11 |
Gurly, Walter Bagnall : Document: Indenture [of Lease]
|
July 30, 1873 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Dublin, certified copy (made January 9, 1962) of an agreement concerning property
leased from the Cathedral Church St. Lazarian Leighlin; parties of the third part
include George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth (Gurly) Shaw, parents of George Bernard
Shaw
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| Box 8 | Folder 11 |
The following, from folders 11.4-11.7, form part of the Ann Elder Jackson Collection
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 11.4 |
GBS Autographed Itineraries, 1903-1910
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1911-1920 |
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12 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Shaw's itinerary for 1911-1920. Handwriting unidentified.
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| Box 8 | Folder 11.5 |
GBS Autographed Itineraries, 1911-1920
|
1911-1920 |
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13 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Shaw's itinerary for 1911-1920. 1 leaf typed.
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| Box 8 | Folder 11.6 |
GBS Autographed Itineraries, 1921-1930
|
1921-1930 |
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12 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Shaw's itinerary for 1921-1930
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 11.7 |
GBS Autographed Itineraries, 1931-1939
|
1931-1939 |
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12 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Shaw's itinerary for 1931-1939
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 11.8 |
Shaw: Memorandum of Agreement and Terms Forms
|
[n.d.] |
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12 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Blank forms for terms and conditions for public performances and memorandum
of agreement.
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 12 |
Kennington, Eric Henri : Autograph Document Signed: Receipt for twenty guineas received
from Shaw for designing the jacket of The Intelligent Woman's Guide...
|
July 1, 1924 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Chiswick Mall; includes holograph note of explanation by Shaw on same sheet; with
note by Bernard F. Burgunder
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 13 |
London County and Westminster Bank Limited : Document: Check by which Shaw was swindled
out of £525
|
Apr. 30, 1913 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Tunbridge Wells; signed by Shaw on back; see: Shaviana [printed] Articles on the swindling
of Shaw for £525; with note by Dan Laurence
|
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Series III Envelopes annotated by Shaw, 1876-1905
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Notation on envelope which held receipt for insurance premium
paid
|
1875 |
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envelope
|
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1 item
|
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Scope and Contents
London?
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Notations on envelope marked "Hornet"
|
1876-77 |
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envelope
|
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1 item
|
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Scope and Contents
Written by Shaw on face of envelope marked "Hornet" "Correspondence"
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Envelope labeled in Shaw's hand "Correspondence with Miss C.
Southam...relative to advertisement for a copyist"
|
1882 |
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envelope
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from [Annie?] Besant concerning
"The Irrational Knot"
|
1886 |
|
envelope
|
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1 item
|
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Scope and Contents
London
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Grace Black announcing
her engagement
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter of Miss
Black
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter written Shaw by Grace Black concerning
State Guild lecture on acting
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter addressed to Shaw
by Grace Black
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Burns's original letter; note
by Shaw, "Did so 31/5/89"
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Notation on envelope which at one time contained a letter from
James Runciman concerning Cashel Byron's Profession
|
July 1889 |
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envelope
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London?
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; notation by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter from
Cassell
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Marjory Davidson
concerning her forthcoming marriage
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
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|
1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained the original announcement
from Miss Davidson
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
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|
1 item + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written by Shaw on face of the envelope which contained the original letter;
includes note on separate leaf by Bernard F. Burgunder
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter concerning Cashel Byron's Profession from Feld & Duer
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
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|
1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
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|
1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter from Gordon
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from D. Gordon representing
Walter Scott, concerning An Unsocial Socialist
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; notations made on face of envelope which contained the original letter from
Gordon
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from May Morris regarding
back cover design for Fabian Essays
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Written on face of original envelope
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written on envelope which contained original letter from Proctor
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by John Satey[?]
of the Penny Illustrated Paper
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter from the
Penny Illustrated Paper
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter written Shaw by the Unwin Brothers
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Written by Shaw on face of envelope addressed to him which contained the original
letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received by Shaw from T. Fisher
Unwin regarding Fabian Essays
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter from Unwin
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter addressed to Shaw by T. Fisher Unwin concerning
Fabian Essays "Withdrawn"
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained the original letter from
Unwin
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter addressed to Shaw by T. Fisher Unwin, concerning
Fabian Essays
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained original letter from Unwin
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from T. Fisher Unwin regarding
Fabian Essays
|
1889 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Unwin
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on envelope, stationery of The Star, which contained O'Connor's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Tito Pagliardini,
with notation of response
|
1890 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Pagliardini's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Walter Scott
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter stating interest by T. Fisher Unwin
in Corno di Bassetto
|
1890 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from that publisher
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received by Shaw from J. Kingston
Barton
|
1891 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original announcement
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Mathews
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Walter Scott
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 30 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of letter received from Benjamin Tucker regarding The Quintessence of Ibsenism
|
1891 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Tucker's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 31 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Chatto & Windus concerning
publication of The Irrational Knot
|
1892 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained original letter from Chatto &
Windus
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of the envelope which contained the original letter from Chatto
& Windus
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 33 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Jim Crowell re; "Hyndman
in Justice"
|
1892 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on the envelope which contained the original of Crowell's letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 34 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from David Nutt concerning
manuscript of Widowers' Houses
|
1892 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on envelope which contained the original letter from Nutt
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 35 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by H. Lowenfeld
concerning Arms and the Man
|
1894 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on the envelope which contained the original letter, with arms of
the Prince of Wales Theatre
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 36 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter from Walter Scott regarding Arms and the Man
|
1894 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on the face of the envelope which contained the original letter from
the publishing firm
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on the face of the envelope which contained the original letter from
Brackstad
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 38 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter from Walter Scott concerning Cashel Byron's Profession
|
1894 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on envelope which contained the original letter from Walter Scott
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Buchanan's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 40 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Richard Mansfield
concerning Candida
|
1895 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of the envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter;
quote, " Candida impossible."
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 41 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Richard Mansfield
concerning Candida (2)
|
1895 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 41.5 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [Charles Charrington]
|
Jun.20, 1895 |
|
letter
|
|||
|
1 leaf + copy + 1 leaf
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; "I bicycled off to Hendon this afternoon". Includes copy of letter plus a
note from B. F. Burgunder explaining content.
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 42 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Robert Buchanan;
"Chaff"
|
1896 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Buchanan's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 43 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Cunninghame Graham
|
1897 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Graham's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 44 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Mr. Bonline
|
1897 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Bonline's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written by Shaw on face of envelope which contained the original letter from
Cockerell
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 46 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by H. Lowenfeld
|
1897 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
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
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 48 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter addressed to Shaw by Richard Mansfield
|
1897 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; concerns Shaw's percentage of The Devil's Disciple; written on face of envelope which contained Mansfield's original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face o the envelope which contained the original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 50 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Frank Harris concerning
his resignation from The Saturday Review
|
1897 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 51 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from Clement Scott
|
1898 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written on face of envelope which contained the original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 53 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of request for loan from Paul Daubig received by Shaw
|
1900 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; note by Shaw on face of envelope which held the original letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 54 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from H.W. Massingham of
the New Penny Daily
|
1900 |
|
envelope
|
|||
|
1 item
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; written with brief of Shaw's response on face of envelope which contained
original Massingham letter
|
|||
| Box 9 | Folder 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
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; note on face of envelope which contained original letter from Common
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| Box 9 | Folder 56 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Précis of contents of letter received from J.M. Jeakes concerning
the Fox and Pelican
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1902 |
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envelope
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1 item
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Scope and Contents
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
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Series IV. Outgoing Correspondence
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Undated - 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Note to Unknown
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] The [pound sign] 500 can begin on the 1st June
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Note to Unknown
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Say there is a statutory right of reasonable quotation,
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Unknown
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 10 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Typed Letter[draft] Signed to Editor of "The Nation"
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[n.d.] |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 10 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Henry Kiell Ayliff
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Would a Chaplin moustache be a breach of faith
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
GBS :Typed Letter[draft] Signed to Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] The Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital having inteded to entertain
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| Box 10 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Typed Letter to Dr. Inches
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Dear Dr. Inches, I have a tragic tale to tell of that unique juicer.
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| Box 10 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Note to [Blanche Patch]
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[London] Male servants licens abolished after January 1937.
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| Box 10 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Autograph Letter to [Blanche Patch]
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; Can you do with [pound sign] 500? Net?
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| Box 10 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Autograph Letter to [Blanche Patch]
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] In the study/ Bernard's Brethren, typed copy bound in red cloth.
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| Box 10 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Envelope addressed to Miss Ethel Shaw
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Torquay; [In Shaw's hand]
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| Box 10 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Note to Charles Thomas
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf + envelope + 1
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 10 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[shorthand, draft] to R. G. Walford
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 10 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Envelope Addressed to Mrs. Gordon Walters
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[Hertshire] [Adressed to Mrs. Gordon Walters [Ethel Shaw] in Shaw's hand.]
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| Box 10 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Autograph Note
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[n.d.] |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 10 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to John Manger Fells
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Aug.6, 1881 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] My dear Fells/ I hereby solemnly undertake 9without in any was pledging myself)
to submit
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| Box 10 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Edwin Habgood
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Jul.12, 1883 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mrs. Emery Walker
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Jan.23, 1885 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mrs. Walker, Never shilst I live will I steal a handkerchief again.
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| Box 10 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harold Wright
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Feb.5, 1885 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Wright/ I give you my word that the enclosed is the first five shillings
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| Box 10 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harold Wright
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Mar.12, 1885 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Wright/ You looked as if you wanted to sit on the safety valve this evening.
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| Box 10 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harold Wright
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Mar.13, 1885 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Wright/ We are indeed at the gates of hell;
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| Box 10 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Jenny Patterson
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Mar.10, 1996 |
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1 leaf + 2 leaves + 2 photographs with negatives
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Alice Lockett
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Aug.19, 1886 |
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1 leaf + envelope + 4 photographs with negatives
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Frances E. (Trickett) Archer
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Jan.12, 1887 |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mrs. Archer/ I have at last made time to go carefully through your MS;
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| Box 10 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Bartlett
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Aug.22, 1888 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Bartlett/ If it were possible for me to belong to the Bloomsbury Society
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| Box 10 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Walter J. Evans
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Mar.4, 1889 |
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1 leaf + 2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London;Dear Sir/ In Social Democracy there is practically infinite scope for courage,
[With 2 page typed transcription]
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| Box 10 | Folder 27 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Tighe Hopkins
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Aug.31, 1889 |
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4 leaves + 9 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Hopkins/ In vain all these friendly remonstrances. [With 9 page typed
transcription.]
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| Box 10 | Folder 28 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Tighe Hopkins
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Sept.2, 1889 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Hopkins/ I return R's letter, for which thanks.
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| Box 10 | Folder 29 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Grant Richards
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Dec.3, 1889 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Henry & Leo have bust up their business [With note from B.F. Burgunder.]
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| Box 10 | Folder 30 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[card] Signed to Charles Thomas
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Sept.14, 1890 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ There has been nothing doing in the musical line;
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| Box 10 | Folder 31 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Jacob Thomas Grein
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Nov.20, 1890 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir/ Could you put off the Ibsen evening to next year?
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| Box 10 | Folder 32 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to J. M. Strudwick
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Feb.13, 1891 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; A proof of my article has just come to hand.
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| Box 10 | Folder 33 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Charles Thomas
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Mar.15, 1891 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ My bad habits are altogether the fault of Spottiswoodes.
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| Box 10 | Folder 34 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas
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Jul.30, 1891 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ There is absolutely nothing doing in the way of music now.
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| Box 10 | Folder 35 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Charles Thomas
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Apr.24, 1892 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ Nothing happened last week that I could write about
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| Box 10 | Folder 36 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas
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May 19, 1892 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ You have no doubt noticed that Harris (Sir Augustus) has
resolved to boycott
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| Box 10 | Folder 37 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Charles Thomas
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Feb.3, 1893 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ What are the regulations under which my last article was
disqualified?
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| Box 10 | Folder 38 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas
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Nov.6, 1893 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London;Dear Mr. Thomas/ This is mere cruelty to animals.
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| Box 10 | Folder 39 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to H. Berwick
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Nov.13, 1893 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London;Dear Sir/ I have to lecture at Norwood on the 19th.
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| Box 10 | Folder 40 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to H. Berwick
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Dec.4, 1893 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir/ I find that I shall be out of town in January
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| Box 10 | Folder 41 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Jacob Thomas Grein
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Dec.12, 1893 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Grein/ You ask me for particulars about the play.
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| Box 10 | Folder 42 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed toHenry W. Massingham
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Jan.5, 1894 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Messingham/ Mrs. Messingham has just written to me to ask about Mrs.
Behnke.
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| Box 10 | Folder 43 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Elizabeth Robins
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Mar.29, 1894 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Oh my Saint Elizabeth, holy and consoling, [With note from B.F. Burgunder]
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| Box 10 | Folder 44 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to C. D. Yates
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May 28, 1894 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Yatess/ I look forward with the greatest misgiving to the World's progress
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| Box 10 | Folder 45 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to C. D. Yates
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May 30, 1894 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; My dear Yates/ I thought it possible that the command might be taken by Major
Griffiths,
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| Box 10 | Folder 46 |
GBS Typed Letter Signed to Major Arthur Griffiths
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Jun.2, 1894 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Major Griffiths/ Not a bit of it : there is no objection in the world
on my part
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| Box 10 | Folder 47 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas
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Oct.12, 1894 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ It occurs tome that as those books ought, I suppose, to be
reviewed,
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| Box 10 | Folder 48 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Charrington
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Mar.25, 1895 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 49 |
GBS : Autograph Letterpostcard] Signed to J. W[erner] L[aurie]
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Sept.11, 1895 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir/ The remittance is all right : there was no question of a presentation.
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| Box 10 | Folder 50 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to T. Fisher Unwin
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Oct.10, 1895 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Fisher Unwin/ I have just had notice that the Fabian committee meeting
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| Box 10 | Folder 51 |
GBS : Typed Letter[mimeograph] Signed to Ellen Terry
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[1896-1913] |
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11 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 52 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Sally Fairchild
|
Mar.23, 1897 |
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1 leaf + 2 leaves + 2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 53 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Charrington
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Mar.2, 1897 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Thanks for the fiver. I am not pressed just now;
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| Box 10 | Folder 54 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Charrington
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Apr.1, 1897 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Excuse me - I forgot to acknowledge the fiver. Many thanks;
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| Box 10 | Folder 55 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Jaegers Sanitary Wollen Co.
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Oct.8, 1897 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; I am sorry to say that the Daily Mail telegram is not sound commercial security
|
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| Box 10 | Folder 56 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Sydney Cockerell
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Dec.15, 1897 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; You should have let me do the art lectures
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| Box 10 | Folder 57 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Kennedy
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May 15, 1898 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mrs. Kennedy/ I am invalided just at present, or I should ask Mr. Kennedy
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| Box 10 | Folder 58 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed toEdward R. Pease
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Feb.27, 1899 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Haslemere, Surrey; Dear Pease/ Is Mrs. Morgan Thomas still a member?
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| Box 10 | Folder 59 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [draft] to [London Councilman?]
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[ca.1900 |
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5 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[London] Dear Sir/ I greatly regret that I shall be unable to attend the meeting
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| Box 10 | Folder 60 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Clarence Rook
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Mar.2, 1900 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Rook/ I have just heard incidentally, through my acquaintance with Cunnighame
Graham's people,
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| Box 10 | Folder 61 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to H. S. Salt
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Mar.12, 1900 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; I called at Holbein House on Saturday evening, [With typed transcription and
envelope]
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| Box 10 | Folder 62 |
GBS : Typed Letter[copy?] Signed to Walter Crane
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Mar.22, 1900 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; My dear Crane/ All this seems to me to be true of the case of the natives
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| Box 10 | Folder 63 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mr. McCleary
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Apr.11, 1900 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear McCleary/ Forgive me for reminding you, but you have not yet,
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| Box 10 | Folder 64 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Thomas
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May 25, 1900 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Thomas/ Mr. Hanson Lewis has submitted the enclosed interview to
me.
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| Box 10 | Folder 65 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Harley Granville-Barker
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Jun.15, [1900] |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Barker. If this reaches you in Maine, [With dealer's description]
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| Box 10 | Folder 66 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Close
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Oct.16, 1900 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London;Dear Mr. Close/ I begin to see that there was a special Providence in your
being Church warden
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| Box 10 | Folder 67 |
GBS : Typed Letter[printed] Signed to Mrs. Bertrand Russell
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Oct.27, 1900 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Please do not be misled by the recent newspaper paragraphs [With note by B.F.
Burgunder]
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| Box 10 | Folder 68 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Chrchwarden [Mr. Close?]
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Nov.7, 1900 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London;Dear Mr. Churchwarden/ What about Friday? Yesterday I went for the first time
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| Box 10 | Folder 69 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Chrchwarden [Mr. Close?]
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Nov.8, 1900 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Churchwarden/ This is simply damnable - red ruin and the breaking
up of laws.
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| Box 10 | Folder 70 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Matthew Hale Douglas
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May 4, 1901 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir/ You seem to be an extremely sentimental college
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| Box 10 | Folder 71 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to T. Fisher Unwin
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Dec.10, 1901 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 72 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Frank Plowright
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Mar.11, 1902 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; You can't get any theatre for rehearsals in the evening
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| Box 10 | Folder 73 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to W. J. Douglas
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Mar.19, 1902 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir/ Go to the nearest Town Hall and sit in the ratepayers gallery [
With dealer's description]
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| Box 10 | Folder 74 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[copy, printed] Signed to Courtenay Thorpe
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Mar.25, 1902 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 75 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Kate (Dickens) Perugini
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Jun.2, 1903 |
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4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 76 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to William Butler Yeats
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Jun.23, 1903 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; I have it quite seriously in my head to write an Irish play
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| Box 10 | Folder 77 |
GBS : Typed Letter [copy] Signed to Edward Pease
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Sept.30, 1903 |
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3 leaves + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Stracher, Loch Tyne; Dear Pease, I cnnot attend the Executive on Friday, [With note
from B. F. Burgunder]
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| Box 10 | Folder 78 |
GBS : Autograph & Typed Letters[copies] Signed to Brentano's
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[1904-1928] |
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45 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; [Copies of many letters to Brentano's.]
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| Box 10 | Folder 79 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to J. E. Brydone
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Feb.23, 1904 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir/ I quite sympathize with your objection to the present high rating;
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| Box 10 | Folder 80 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Brentano's
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Jun.15, 1904 |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sirs/ I have only j8ust returned from a holiday in Rome.
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| Box 10 | Folder 81 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Editor of the "Saturday Review"
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Apr.21, 1905 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 10 | Folder 82 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Rosina Filippi
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Jun.21, 1905 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 10 | Folder 83 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Brentano's
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Aug.6, 1905 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Derry, Rosscarbery, Co., Cork; The copyright law as to the I. K. is as follows.
|
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| Box 10 | Folder 84 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Millicent Murby
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Feb.20, 1906 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; My dear Miss Murby/ I advise you not to make yourself dependent on acting
for your livelihood.
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| Box 10 | Folder 85 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[draft] Signed to Editor of the "Standard"
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Nov.21, 1906 |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Sir- In the notice of my play in your issue of yesterday,
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| Box 10 | Folder 86 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Edward R. Pease
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Jul.25, 1907 |
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1 leaf + 1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Hafody Bryn, Llanbedr; Dear Pease/ Maude has got Dent on the brain. [With dealer's
description]
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| Box 10 | Folder 87 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Brentano's
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Jul.29, 1907 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Llanbedr, Merionethshire; In a bibliography which has just [been] compiled for me
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| Box 10 | Folder 88 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Archibald Henderson
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Jul.29, 1907 |
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2 leaves + 2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 89 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Gladys M. Rees
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Jul.30, 1907 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; I quite appreciate the suggestion : in fact
I have thought sponaneously of doing something
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| Box 10 | Folder 90 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Edgar Jepson
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Aug.10, 1907 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; C. H. Norman, an S. D. F.er who has been down
here
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| Box 10 | Folder 91 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed toMrs. [Pakenham?] Beatty
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Aug.14, 1907 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 10 | Folder 92 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Ben Iden Payne
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Sept.8, 1907 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Hafod y Bryn, Llanbedr, Merionethshire; I got your letter too late to wire.
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| Box 10 | Folder 93 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Rosina Filippi
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Nov.13, 1907 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Typed Letter [fragment, draft?] to Messrs. Schneider and Jablonski
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[1908] |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 11 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Typed Letter [copy] to Augustin Hamon
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Mar.3, 1908 |
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2 leaves + 3 leaves + 8 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Unknown
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Mar.31, 1908 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence: Dear Sir/ The story about the watch was in full swing about Charles
Bradlaugh
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| Box 11 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Mrs. Eveleen Myers
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Apr.27, 1908 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dine? Never.
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| Box 11 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to [Robert d'Humieres]
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May 3, 1908 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Battler's Green, Letchmore Heath; My dear Marquis/ You are wrong about Hamon. He has
style, grit,
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| Box 11 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Typed Letter [copy?] to Dr. Erich Hoffmann
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May 12, 1908 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Dear Sir, I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 26th inst.,
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| Box 11 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to C. H. Norman
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May 15, 1908 |
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1 leaf +1 leaf + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Miss Andrews
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May 15, 1908 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Miss Andrews, In case you have been able to get Messrs Ellis and Walery
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| Box 11 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Miss Marion Chappell
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Oct.12, 1908 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Miss Chappell, It would of course be impossible for me to refuse to allow
Richard Strauss
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| Box 11 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Typed Letter [copy] to Curt Otto
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Oct.24, 1908 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
[n.p.] Dear Doctor Otto, Your letter of the 11th August arrived here while I was travelling
abroad;
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| Box 11 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Typed Letter [copy] to Curt Otto
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Nov.12, 1908 |
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2 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 11 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to The Cambridge [Mass.] University Press
|
Nov.27, 1908 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mrs. Gamble
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Feb.2, 1909 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; My dear Mrs. Gamble, The difficulty in this religious controversy
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| Box 11 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [fragment] Signed to Brentano's
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Mar.20, 1909 |
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1 envelope
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Scope and Contents
Gibraltar; P.S. I hope this is sufficiently stamped. [Written on the envelope, no
letter included.]
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| Box 11 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory
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Jun.12, 1909 |
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3 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Lady Gregory, I think the best thing to do is to collect Synge's work
first;
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| Box 11 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [copy] Signed to C.A. Vanderwell & Co.
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Nov.4, 1909 |
|
2 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 11 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Mona Limerick
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Nov.13, 1909 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Miss Mona Limerick, In September last I wrote to your unworthy husband
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| Box 11 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory
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Nov.6, 1909 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Lady Gregory, The Stage Society will take anything you can give it
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 18A |
GBS : Written Letter Signed to John E. Vedrenne
|
Dec. 16, 1909 |
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1 leaf + typed description
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; My Dear VD, Vex not your soul with the superman
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| Box 11 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Autgraph Letter Signed to James Waters, Jr.
|
Jan.5, 1910 |
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2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; Dear Waters/ It is arranged that nothing is to come out about the
repertory scheme
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| Box 11 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to A. B. Kershaw
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Jan.7, 1910 |
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1 leaf + envelope + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to A. B. Kershaw
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Jan.20, 1910 |
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1 leaf + envelope + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E. Vedrenne
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Jan.11, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; If Miss Buona Bent will call tomorrow between 12.30 & 1,
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| Box 11 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E. Vedrenne
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Apr.6, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Pyrenees; I shall not be back until the end of the month
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to C. H. Norman
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Jun.3, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; I answered both letters. Have my replies miscarried?
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| Box 11 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Unknown
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Jul14, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawwrence; Lord bless her innocence, with her two dozen!
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| Box 11 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Rattray
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Jul.21, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Edstaston wem Shrewsbury; I am afraid I am already full up for next season.
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| Box 11 | Folder 27 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E. Vedrenne
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Jul.21, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Edstaston wem Shrewsbury; Whitney-Barbara is all bunkum. He wants to conciliate me
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 28 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to Ben Iden Payne
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Jul.28, 1910 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Carrigart Co., Donegal; It would be an interesting experiment: try it by all means.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 29 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [copy] Signed to Olga Nethersole
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Sept.18, 1910 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
Parknasilla-on-Sea, Co. Kerry; My dear Miss Nethersole/ I shall never get this dreadful
book out:
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| Box 11 | Folder 30 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to H. W. Massingham
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Dec.16, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Loondon; Mark anything on the proof you want softened or omitted.
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| Box 11 | Folder 31 |
GBS : AL [postcard] S to John E. Vedrenne
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Dec.22, 1910 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Barker won't come up : he syas that as the scenery is going into your store
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 32 |
GBS : Autograph Letters[postcards] to Margaret Halstan
|
May 18, 1911 |
|
10 leaves + 10 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 33 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [postcard] Signed to John E. Vedrenne
|
Jul.29, [1911] |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Savoie, Thonon-les-Bains; I have no objection in the world to Mrs. Fay;
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| Box 11 | Folder 34 |
GBS : Typed Letter [carbon] Signed to Ralph Brodrick
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Nov.17, 1911 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir, I attach a special value to the invitation with which you have honored
me
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| Box 11 | Folder 35 |
GBS : Typed Letter [mimeograph] to Emil Davies
|
Dec.13, 1911 |
|
5 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 36 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Viola Tree
|
Dec.17, 1911 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; My dear Viola/ If I had had a notion that you would have liked
Eurdice,
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| Box 11 | Folder 37 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to D. Lewin Mannering
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Jan.2, 1912 |
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1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; Dear Lewin Mannering, You will drive me out of my senses.
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| Box 11 | Folder 38 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Viola Tree
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Jan.5, 1912 |
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1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Edsteston wem Shrewsbury; My dear Viola/ Just three lines in frantic haste to catch
the post.
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| Box 11 | Folder 39 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to John Palmer
|
Feb.24, 1912 |
|
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Mr. Palmer, What I said about a book on the censorship would not hold
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 40 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [shorthand draft] to J.N. Duddington
|
[Jun., 1912] |
|
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1 leaf + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 11 | Folder 41 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to C. H. Norman
|
Jun.25, 1912 |
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1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
[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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| Box 11 | Folder 42 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Dorothy Minto
|
Jul.2, 1912 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 43 |
GBS : Autograph Letter [card] Signed to [Cyril Sykes]
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Oct.2, 1912 |
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1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
It is quite a mistake to suppose that male polictical prisoners are in any way privileged.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 44 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Simon Brentano
|
Nov.6, 1912 |
|
2 leaves
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|
Scope and Contents
London; My dear Mr. Brentano, Whatever the reason may be, it is beyond all question
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 45 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[card] to Simon Brentano
|
Nov.15, 1912 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; The enclosed will help to document my letter
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 46 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory
|
Nov.18, 1912 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 47 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory
|
Nov.19, 1912 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 48 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Walter Stephens
|
Dec.11, 1912 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; Dear Sir, The thing is entirely impossible.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 49 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Blake Adams
|
Jan.1, 1913 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; Dear Blake Adams/ I made one or two notes at the last perfomance.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 50 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to William Poel
|
Jan.1, 1913 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; I was in front on Tuesday with Barker,
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| Box 11 | Folder 51 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Brentano's
|
Apr.19, 1913 |
|
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
London; Dear Brentanos, On going through your accounts I find no mention
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 52 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Clifford Sharp
|
May 19, 1913 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; I have been finally crushed by Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 53 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Ashley Dukes
|
Jun.17, 1913 |
|
1 leaf + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; Dear Ashley Dukes/ It will perhaps amuse you to learn that the
following conversation [With transcription included.]
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 54 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Rosina Fillippi
|
Sept.16, 1913 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Valence -s-Rhone; My dear Rosina Filippi/ Thank you for a very welcome letter.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 55 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Clifford Sharp
|
Nov.3, 1913 |
|
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; G.K.C. has utterly failed to get a rise out of me.
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| Box 11 | Folder 56 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to John E. Vedrenne
|
Nov.17, 1913 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; My dear Vedrenne, Have you got the old prompt copy of the Philanderer?
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 57 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[card] Signed to Unknown
|
[ca.1914-15] |
|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
London; Keep all these press cuttings until the performances [With note from B.F.
Burgunder]
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| Box 11 | Folder 58 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Gilbert Murray
|
Feb.2, 1914 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; Sheafs of invitations, mostly from people who make downstrokes
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 59 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Fanny [Brough]
|
Jun.16, 1914 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; Dearest Fanny/ What! Carlotta Addison gone! [With dealer's description
with transcription included .]
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 60 |
GBS : Typed Letter[copy] Signed to Constable & Co.
|
Nov., 1914 |
|
1 leaf + 1 + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 61 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed to Bretano's
|
Nov.20, 1914 |
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4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; My dear Brentano's/ Mr Doubleday's offer is an important one.
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| Box 11 | Folder 62 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[card] Signed to Harold Wright
|
Dec.11, 1914 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; Many thanks for the book. It will be most useful to me.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 63 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to W. Perriton Maxwell
|
Aug.9, 1915 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Torquay; Dear Mr. Perriton Maxwell/ I had rather not answer your questions just now,
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 64 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Sir John Squire
|
Sept.1, 1915 |
|
1 leaf + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 11 | Folder 65 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Augusta, Lady Gregory
|
Sept.14, 1915 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Torquay; My dear Lady Gregory/ O'Flaherty V.C. many now, I think, re regarded as a
certainty.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 66 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[telegram] to Carolos Paton Blacker
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Oct.4, 1915 |
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2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
Torquay; At vane Gower yesterday. Carolos handed the telegram from authorities.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 67 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to August, Lady Gregory
|
Oct.19, 1915 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Torquay; My dear Lady Gregory/ On the point of returning to London
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 68 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Carlos Paton Blacker
|
Oct.19, 1915 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Torquay; My dear Pep/ The worst is over at Vane Lower.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 69 |
GBS : Autograph Letter[postcard] Signed to Carlos Paton Blacker
|
Oct.20, 1915 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Torquay; My letter of yesterday needs a postscript.
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 70 |
GBS : Autograph[shorthand] Letter Signed to Harry M. Paull
|
Oct.28, 1915 |
|
2 leaves + 1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
[London] My dear Paull, The members present did me a great injustice. [With typed
transcription of shorthand.]
|
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| Box 11 | Folder 71 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed to Florence (Johnston) Gamble
|
Nov.30, 1915 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
London; My dear Florence/ Why doesn't Constance get a war job? [With note from B.F.
Burgunder]
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|
1916-1920
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| Box 12 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Florence (Johnston) Gamble
|
Jan. 6, 1916 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London?; begins "My dear Florence / How did that come about, I wonder?"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Brentano's
|
Jan. 15, 1916 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Brentano's / I enclose, first, some photographs"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
Feb. 18, 1916 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
London; with a typed prospectus; revised in Shaw's hand, for the volume of plays containing
Androcles, Overruled,and Pygmalion
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
Feb. 24, 1916 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Brentanos / The shortage of labor here makes it"
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| Box 12 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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June 14, 1916 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson / If you won't read my works by degrees"
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| Box 12 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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Aug. 15, 1916 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; postcard bearing photograph of Shaw; begins "I sent the last copy
but one of the Caesar / prologue"
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| Box 12 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's
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Aug. 22, 1916 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Brentanos / In your last accounting to me"
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| Box 12 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
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Aug. 22, 1916 |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I have at last heard from Robert"
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| Box 12 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
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Sept. 3, 1916 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
Sedbergh; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I don't at all agree about Ibsen"
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| Box 12 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
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Sept. 3, 1916 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Sedbergh; begins "What are the prospects of the / Abbey Players ever"
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| Box 12 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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Sept. 4, 1916 |
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postcard
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Sedbergh; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I got Harris's book (the
Wilde / one) before the 7th August"
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| Box 12 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Note: to "Carbonato" [Paul Reynolds]
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ca. Sept. 5, 1916 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John E. Vedrenne
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Sept. 6, 1916 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Turners Hill, Sussex; purchased at Sotheby's, December 13, 1994; begins "I have been
out of London since Androclesappeared"
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| Box 12 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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Sept. 7, 1916 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
Sedbergh; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson
/ I have kept a copy of the letter"
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| Box 12 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Envelopes addressed to Ernest Newman, the music critic
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Aug.? 1916, Sept. 13, 1916 |
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envelope
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2 items
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Scope and Contents
One envelope is labelled Sedbergh, the other London
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| Box 12 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman
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Sept. 13, 1916 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Sedbergh; begins "Dear Mr. Newman / I have just read your article"
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| Box 12 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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Sept. 13, 1916 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Sedbergh; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I now find that there
is a / difficulty about publication."
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| Box 12 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman
|
Sept. 20, 1916 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Newman / I cannot make up my mind about Glastonbury."
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| Box 12 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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Oct. 1, 1916 |
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1 leaf + 1 + envelope
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Now, God help
you, you are, like all hero"
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| Box 12 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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Oct. 3, 1916 |
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2 leaves + 2 + envelope
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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Oct. 20, 1916 |
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3 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson / Since you like writing letters"
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| Box 12 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to W.J. Bassett-Lowke
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Nov. 1, 1916 |
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postcard
|
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1 item + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
|
Nov. 10, 1916 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Yes: my last letter to
F.H. dealt with / Captain Kidd"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
|
Dec. 7, 1916 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "If you have any copies
of the Wilde book to / spare"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
|
Dec. 13, 1916 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I am sending
one of my vellum copies"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
Dec. 15, 1916 |
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2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Brentanos / I have just come across an unanswered letter"
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| Box 12 | Folder 27 |
GBS : to Autograph Letter Signed: Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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Dec. 22, 1916 |
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1 leaf + envelope
|
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "You will see
by the enclosed that / MacCarthy"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 28 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to A.G.? Gardiner
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Dec. 28, 1916 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 29 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to C.D. Medley, Jr. [initialed]
|
Dec. 29, 1916 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 30 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
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Jan. 22, 1917 |
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3 leaves + envelope
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I have talked to the Stage Society"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 31 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
|
Feb. 12, 1917 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Hesketh
Pearson / I have been at the front"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 32 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Herbert Thurston
|
Feb. 22, 1917 |
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3 leaves + 15
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 33 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
|
Mar. 26, 1917 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf + 1
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 34 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
May 4, 1917 |
|
2 leaves + envelope
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory, I have practically pledged myself"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 35 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Lt. W.J. Wills
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May 28, 1917 |
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postcard
|
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1 item + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Wills / How do
you feel about it generally?"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 36 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Sergei Ivanov
|
June 21, 1917 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 37 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
July 26, 1917 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "He literally was hovering over our chimney / pots with"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 38 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Sir Horace Plunkett
|
Aug. 3, 1917 |
|
carbon copy
|
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14 leaves + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 39 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman
|
Aug. 10, 1917 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 40 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman
|
Oct. 5, 1917 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Kenmare, Co. Kerry; begins "My dear Newman / This is a reply to your letter from Nottingham"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 41 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman
|
Oct. 25, 1917 |
|
2 leaves + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Newman was a music critic; London; begins "My dear Newman / It is really rather interesting"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 42 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to B.H. Stern
|
Nov. 2, 1917 |
|
London; with holograph postscript; begins "Dear Mr. Stern / I enclose an Agreement
to be executed by"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 43 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to W. Perriton Maxwell
|
Nov. 9, 1917 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 44 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
Nov. 18, 1917 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "I have already heard from and answered the editor"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 45 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
Nov. 27, 1917 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / It was rather a pity that we"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 46 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
Dec. 3, 1917 |
|
postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "The articles are being republished as"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 47 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sam. P. Gaines
|
Mar. 6, 1918 |
|
postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I really cannot understand a man going"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 48 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Charles Charrington
|
Jan. 24, 1918 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Charrington / No: I didn't call. And what the dickens is the"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 49 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
Apr. 25, 1918 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; the letter is in part also a receipt; begins "Dear Brentanos / I have this
day received from you"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 50 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
June 7, 1918 |
|
postcard
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Your letter of the 14th. May suggests that"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 51 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to William Poel
|
July 12, 1918 |
|
title: Monthly Letter
|
|||
|
title: Caesar and Cleopatra
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 52 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Colonel Lynch
|
Sept. 23, 1918 |
|
2 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Parknasilla; on recruiting the Irish for the war; begins "Dear Colonel Lynch / Your
telegram about the recruiting reached me"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 53 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
Oct. 14, 1918 |
|
postcard
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "Please send a copy of my last volume of / plays"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 54 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
|
Oct. 28, 1918 |
|
5 leaves
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London?; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson / Why did it need a colossal war to"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 55 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Hesketh Pearson
|
Oct. 28, 1918 |
|
copy
|
|||
|
4 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 56 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
Nov. 14, 1918 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I think you may regard the"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 57 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Arthur Brentano
|
Jan. 19, 1919 |
|
card
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; card apparently sent through George Sylvester Viereck; begins "If the Authors'
League or the / Poetry Society"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 58 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's
|
Jan. 22, 1919 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Brentano's / Your accounts dated the third January 1918"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 59 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gerald Gould
|
Jan. 25, 1919 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; with corrections in his hand; bought from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., in January
1980; begins "Dear Gerald Gould / Hamon has the great recommendation"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 60 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Capt. J.T. Wootton
|
May 8, 1919 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Sir, By all means send me any criticism you care"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 61 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ernest Thurtle
|
May 9, 1919 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; Thurtle had written a "popular explanation of military law"; begins "Dear
Sir, As a rule I have to refuse all requests for prefaces."
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 62 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Capt. J.T. Wootton
|
May 14, 1919 |
|
8 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 63 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Capt. J.T. Wootton
|
May 31, 1919 |
|
3 leaves + envelope
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; the addressee's name is in this letter given as "Captain W.T. Wootton"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 64 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
|
June 24, 1919 |
|
postcard
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "I am shocked
to find your letter / among the"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 65 |
GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Ernest Thurtle [initialed]
|
July 1, 1919 |
|
card
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 66 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Miss Chappell
|
Aug. 28, 1919 |
|
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
Glastonbury; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Miss Chappell
/ What! begin writing light opera at"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 67 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
Sept. 4, 1919 |
|
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
Penlee; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I wash my hands of Androcles."
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 68 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Curt Otto
|
Oct. 4, 1919 |
|
2 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Gift of Bernard F. Burgunder, December 19, 1978; begins "Dear Herr Otto / It is with
great pleasure that I find"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 69 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to H.E. the Minister for Foreign Affairs
|
Oct. 5, 1919 |
|
copy
|
|||
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 70 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dr. Emil Szalai
|
Oct. 5, 1919 |
|
copy
|
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2 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 71 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Jan Sliwinski
|
Oct. 25, 1919 |
|
1 leaf + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
With explanatory note by Dan H. Laurence on separate leaf; begins "Dear Sir, Mr. Bernard
Shaw's authorized translator for"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 72 |
GBS : Autograph Letter: to G.M. Jeffries [shorthand]
|
Oct. 30, 1919 |
|
2 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 73 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gladys Pearson
|
Nov. 13, 1919 |
|
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Mrs. Pearson, This is getting serious."
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 74 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Viola Tree
|
ca. Jan. 1920 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Viola / I am sorry to say that I am convinced that"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 75 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman
|
Jan. 5, 1920 |
|
postcard
|
|||
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I am just wiring Madame Vandervilde"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 76 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to J.H. Clynes
|
Jan. 15, 1920 |
|
1 leaf + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 77 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Curt Otto
|
Jan. 30, 1920 |
|
carbon copy
|
|||
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Gift of Bernard F. Burgunder, December 19, 1978; begins "Dear Herr Otto, It is a crime
to draw money from Germany"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 78 |
GBS : Autograph Letter: to Mrs. Patrick Campbell? [fragment]
|
ca. Feb. 1920 |
|
2 leaves + 2
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Instructions on acting the part of Eliza in Pygmalion;with explanatory notes added on two separate leaves
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 79 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Viola Tree
|
ca. Feb. 1920 |
|
2 leaves
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Viola / In reply to your kind note about seats"
|
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| Box 12 | Folder 80 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Eugene Bertram
|
Feb. 15, 1920 |
|
1 leaf
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I am sending the photographic / poses to Miss Tree"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 81 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Eugene Bertram
|
Feb. 16, 1920 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I forgot to say that I want a set / of the"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 82 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Orton Lewson
|
Mar. 26, 1920 |
|
1 leaf
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Mr. Orton Lewson / I am just off to Ireland for a"
|
|||
| Box 12 | Folder 83 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Viola Tree
|
Apr. 8, 1920 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 84 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
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Apr. 12, 1920 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
Lucan; begins "Dear Lady Gregory / We were unlucky today in not being"
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| Box 12 | Folder 85 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
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Apr. 16, 1920 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
Lucan; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / As far as I can see the only"
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| Box 12 | Folder 86 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch
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June 3, 1920 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; note by Shaw on envelope; begins "Dear Miss Patch / Would you care to be my
secretary?"
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| Box 12 | Folder 87 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch
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June 8, 1920 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Concerns his engagement of Blanche Patch as his secretary; begins "Dear Miss Patch
/ May I take this as quite final?"
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| Box 12 | Folder 88 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch
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June 15, 1920 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
begins "Dear Miss Patch / By all means arrange with Mrs. Jackson"
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| Box 12 | Folder 89 |
GBS : Autograph Note: Ayot St. Lawrence
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1920, 1922, 1928 |
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4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 12 | Folder 90 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
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ca. Nov. 1920? |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; formerly cataloged under the date 1916?; begins "My dear Lady Gregory, The
enclosed from Sally Not In"
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| Box 12 | Folder 91 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
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ca. Nov. 1920? |
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London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory, What would be the use?"
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| Box 12 | Folder 92 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to T. Crome
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Dec. 9, 1920 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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1921-1930
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| Box 13 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Arthur Brentano
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Jan. 17, 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Brentano, My new volume of plays will very soon be"
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| Box 13 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Edgar Jepson
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Jan. 17, 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Jepson, You have got it all right I think; at least that is"
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| Box 13 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Lillah McCarthy [initialed]
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Jan. 22, 1921 |
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card
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to A.E. [George Russell?]
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Feb. 6, 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear A.E. Unluckily your letter came too late."
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| Box 13 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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May 26, 1921 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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May 31, 1921 |
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postcard
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "So that is what
you call licking my boots"
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| Box 13 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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June 22, 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson, Will you send me a proof..."
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| Box 13 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Curtis Freshel
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June 27, 1921 |
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facsimile
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Freschel, I knew I should get you into a fearful domestic row"
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| Box 13 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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June 29, 1921 |
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1 leaf + envelope + 1
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Scope and Contents
London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson /
It has taken so long to read the"
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| Box 13 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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June 30, 1921 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Hesketh Pearson, That essay of yours requires"
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| Box 13 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J.E. Vedrenne [initialed]
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July 17, 1921 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "I am just starting on my holiday (meaning the servants'
holiday)"
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| Box 13 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
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July 22, 1921 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Yorkshire; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Hesketh: it is a pity
you are such a ---- well, no matter."
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| Box 13 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's
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July 25, 1921 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Will you be so good as to / send a copy..."
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| Box 13 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Brentano's
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Sept. 27, 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Brentano's, The enclosed letter and Insurance Policy"
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| Box 13 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Sylvia Beach
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Oct. 10, 1921 |
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copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [J.B.] Fagan [initialed]
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Oct. 20, 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [?]
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Nov. 1, 1921 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J.E. Vedrenne [initialed]
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Nov. 26, 1921 |
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card
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear V.D. / I sent you a copy when the book was published"
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| Box 13 | Folder 18.5 |
GBS : Autograph Postcard Signed: to Lady Gregory Augusta
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Feb.12, 1922 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; Yes, if you think it wise.
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| Box 13 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Arthur Brentano
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Mar. 20, 1922 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Brentano, About tha tcollected edition of my works"
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| Box 13 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J.M. Strudwick
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Apr. 29, 1922 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
Harlech, North Wales; begins "My dear Strudwick / I am getting slightly middle-aged"
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| Box 13 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [Sir] Robert Donald [initialed]
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Oct. 12, 1922 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; concerns the find for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre; begins
"I have defended the capital fund of the"
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| Box 13 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to C. David Sterling
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Nov. 23, 1922 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Sit, I find your letter waiting for me here (3.30 p.m.)"
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| Box 13 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to William Deuer, Jr. [initialed]
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Dec. 11, 1922 |
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card
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Lady Rhondda
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Jan. 27, 1923 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Lady Rhondda / The worst of coming to one for an"
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| Box 13 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
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Apr. 8, 1923 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
Minehead; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / Do you know the address of John"
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| Box 13 | Folder 26 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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May 1, 1923 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Crewe; begins "Dear Miss Patch / It has suddenly dawned on me that I have"
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| Box 13 | Folder 27 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dr. A.A. Warren
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July 1, 1923 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "The difficulty about using this report"
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| Box 13 | Folder 28 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Siegfried Trebitsch
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Sept. 23, 1923 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 29 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
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Oct. 23, 1923 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Alas! I finished up at Parknasilla / by slipping"
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| Box 13 | Folder 30 |
GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Olga Nethersole [initialed]
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Nov. 1, 1923 |
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facsimile
|
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2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
London; includes facsimile of address on envelope; begins "What! Be wasted on the
chair!"
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| Box 13 | Folder 31 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Conal O'Riordan [initialed]
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Nov. 21, 1923 |
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2 leaves + envelope
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 32 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring
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Jan. 30, 1924 |
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2 leaves
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 33 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Werner Laurie
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Feb. 11, 1924 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 34 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring
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Feb. 12, 1924 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Thring, In answer to yours of the 2nd about the"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 35 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Henry W. Massingham
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Feb. 27, 1924 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 36 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George E. MacIlwain
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Mar. 25, 1924 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 37 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to George MacIlwain [initialed]
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Mar. 24, 1924 |
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card
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Thanks for sending me the article"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 38 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed]
|
Apr. 13, 1924 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 39 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mrs. Forsyth Button
|
June 4, 1924 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; acquired May 1992; begins "Why, when I have done a particularly / long and
hard job"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 40 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mr. Dupernex?
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July 13, 1924 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 41 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey
|
Aug. 3, 1924 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Strathpeffer, England; begins "Blanco is fully licensed, / and has been for years
past."
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| Box 13 | Folder 42 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
Sept. 1, 1924 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Oban; begins "Yes; we are repeating Dr. Johnson's expedition"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 43 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to St. John Adcock
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Oct. 23, 1924 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 44 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
Nov. 22, 1924 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Not possible. Sybil Thorndike is / to take St. J. round"
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| Box 13 | Folder 45 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring
|
Nov. 22, 1924 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Thring / It is quite true that I did not broadcast"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 46 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
|
Dec. 31, 1924 |
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abbr: postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Madeira; begins "We arrived safely yesterday (Tuesday the 30th) after"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 47 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Baron Palmstierna [draft]
|
ca. 1925 |
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2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 48 |
GBS : Envelopes addressed to Blanche Patch
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1925? |
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2 items
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 49 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey
|
Mar. 16, 1925 |
|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 50 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey
|
Apr. 1, 1925 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; discusses costumes of Blanco; begins "Let the imagination play. There never
/ was no such place nor no such people."
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| Box 13 | Folder 51 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sydney Olivier, baron Ramsden
|
Apr. 24, 1925 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Stratford-on-Avon; begins "On Sunday I leave this place for home."
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 52 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
June 10, 1925 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Liphook; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / I am staying here with the"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 53 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
Aug. 28, 1925 |
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1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Sutherland; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / Ireland is passing through a series"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 54 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Shand
|
Nov. 13, 1925 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 55 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gertrude Burnett
|
Dec. 16, 1925 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; the postcard has a photograph of Shaw on the reverse side; begins
"I was so sorry I could not come to"
|
|||
| Box 13 | Folder 56 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
|
Dec. 22, 1925 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Falmouth; begins "The son is not the man his father was"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 57 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's?
|
Jan. 24, 1926 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 13 | Folder 58 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Hunt Helmsley
|
Feb. 26, 1926 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 59 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Arthur Bourchier [initialed]
|
Mar. 3, 1926 |
|
1 leaf + envelope + 2
|
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Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 13 | Folder 60 |
GBS : Autograph Letter: to Blanche Patch
|
May 12, 1926 |
|
card
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London?; begins "You can charge the hospital fees and expenses to me"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 61 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch
|
June 1, 1926 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London? begins "Dear Blanche / You had better pay those expenses with your own"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 61.5 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Sylvester Viereck
|
June 2, 1926 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "DearViereck/ I never lectured in my life about physical culture"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 62 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed]
|
July 22, 1926 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory / Do you remember my reading to you"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 63 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
|
Sept. 4, 1926 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Stresa; begins "The £200 is for Travellers Cheques of"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 64 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Sir John Martin-Harvey
|
Nov. 11, 1926 |
|
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 65 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Macdona
|
Feb. 3, 1927 |
|
1 leaf
|
|||
|
Scope and Contents
Begins "My dear Macdona, Mine is a dog's life. Half the time I am"
|
|||
| Box 13 | Folder 66 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Messrs Williams & Norgate Ltd.
|
Mar. 14, 1927 |
|
1 leaf
|
|||
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Scope and Contents
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"
|
|||
| Box 13 | Folder 67 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ashley Dukes [initialed]
|
Apr. 6, 1927 |
|
1 leaf + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 68 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Sydney Cockerell [initialed]
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June 26, 1927 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Cockerell / This accidental biography of Warington
Taylor is much more effective"
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| Box 13 | Folder 69 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Oscar Swede
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Aug. 18, 1927 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 70 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mona Limerick [initialed]
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Nov. 22, 1927 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 71 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to H.M. Inspector of Taxes
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Dec. 6, 1927 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Sir, Pursuant to your JLF/3195 of the 20th June last,"
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| Box 13 | Folder 72 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ashley Dukes [initialed]
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Dec. 15, 1927 |
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card
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "The address is Miss Bertha Newcombe / Tilmore"
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| Box 13 | Folder 73 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson
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Dec. 15, 1927 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; postcard bearing photograph of Shaw; begins "Quite good. I read the lot at
a / gulp."
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| Box 13 | Folder 74 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Brentano's
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Apr. 3, 1928 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 75 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Ebba, Lady Low
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May 17, 1928 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 76 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to [?]
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June 27, 1928 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 77 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Margaret Halstan
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July 4, 1928 |
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postcard
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1 item + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 78 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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July 31, 1928 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Cap d'Antibes; begins "The Chesterton debate books arrived safely; but I have"
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| Box 13 | Folder 79 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney
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Aug. 31, 1928 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Cap d'Antibes; begins "Dear Mr. Tunney / On Tuesday next I leave this address"
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| Box 13 | Folder 80 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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Sept. 10, 1928 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Geneva; begins "We leave Geneva on Saturday night and arrive"
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| Box 13 | Folder 81 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney
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Sept. 21, 1928 |
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postcard
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1 item
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Just to say-in case you are"
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| Box 13 | Folder 82 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Clarence Norman
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Sept. 25, 1928 |
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1 leaf + envelope
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Clarence Norman / Your old friend G.D. has had a breakdown and
is very fragile-"
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| Box 13 | Folder 83 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ellaline Terriss [initialed]
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Nov. 21, 1928 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 84 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Albert Victor Baillie
|
Nov. 24, 1928 |
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1 leaf + 1 + 5
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 85 |
GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Unknown [initialed]
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Dec. 11, 1928 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; on preprinted Shaw compliments card; purchased Sept. 13, 1994, Swann Galleries;
begins "What are all these about?"
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| Box 13 | Folder 86 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Maurice Baring
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Dec. 14, 1928 |
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copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 87 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Bernard Miall
|
Mar. 6, 1929 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Mr. Bernard Miall / I am much obliged to you for letting me know
about the"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 88 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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Mar. 9, 1929 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Hastings; begins "Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Webb want to go"
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| Box 13 | Folder 89 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch
|
Apr. 21, 1929 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Brioni; begins "Tell Kyllmann that there is no difficulty"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 90 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to "Signor J.N. Pasara" [Gene Tunney]
|
Apr. 24, 1929 |
|
1 leaf + envelope + 1
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 90.5 |
GBS : Autograph Notes Initialed: to [Blanche Patch]
|
Apr.24, 1929 |
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Brioni; I want to know what business Barbara [Major Barbara] has done during its eight
week's run.
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 91 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney
|
May 30, 1929 |
|
1 leaf + envelope + 2
|
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Scope and Contents
Venice; with photocopies; begins "My dear Gene / We got a fright about you on the
way"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 92 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Albert Coates
|
June 6, 1929 |
|
2 leaves + 2 + envelope
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 93 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed]
|
June 6, 1929 |
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postcard
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Venice; begins "I have now secured my homeward tickets for"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 94 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to G.W. Bishop
|
Sept. 4, 1929 |
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1 leaf + 1
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 95 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Malcom Morley
|
Sept. 29, 1929 |
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postcard
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Perhaps you had better send me the / rehearsal"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 96 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Robert S. Young
|
Oct. 19, 1929 |
|
1 leaf + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 97 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory
|
Oct. 29, 1929 |
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1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Lady Gregory / The portable wireless has just"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 98 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
|
Oct. 31, 1929 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "If you can get onto Miss Lilian Dawson at the National"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 99 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Graves
|
Dec. 14, 1929 |
|
2 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; includes typed transcript; begins "My dear Charles / My attendance at your
wedding, or at anybody's wedding, is out"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 100 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Mr. J. Chachik
|
Dec. 21, 1929 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 101 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Charles Benjamin Purdom
|
Jan. 12, 1930 |
|
3 leaves + 1 + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 102 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
|
Feb. 2, 1930 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Cliveden; begins "I feel sure I added something to the"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 103 |
GBS : Letter: to W.E. Stafford
|
Mar. 28, 1930 |
|
1 leaf + 3 + 2
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 104 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney
|
Apr. 20, 1930 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Shrewbury; Easter Sunday, 1930; begins "My dear Gene / The Cashel Byron proposals
are only blind snatches"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 105 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
|
July 23, 1930 |
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card
|
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1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "If a Mr. Wise rings up wanting to see"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 106 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mrs. Cecil Chesterton
|
Aug. 7, 1930 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 107 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to the Editor of The Times
|
Aug. 29, 1930 |
|
copy
|
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2 leaves + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 108 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to the Editor of The Observer
|
ca. early Sept. 1930 |
|
copy
|
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|
3 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 13 | Folder 109 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Harvey Hogan
|
Oct. 21, 1930 |
|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Sir / My great grandfather was Prosser Shaw's grandfather"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 110 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to G.W. Bishop [initialed]
|
Oct. 23, 1930 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Bishop / That stuff you sent me is not only an infamous breach
of confidence"
|
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| Box 13 | Folder 111 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Henry Murray [initialed]
|
Nov. 2, 1930 |
|
postcard
|
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|
1 item
|
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|
Scope and Contents
London; begins "I don't think any actor could beat Irving's Louis XI"
|
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|
Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
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|
Processing Information
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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| Box 14 | Folder 1 |
Calendar and dealer's list
|
Oct. 22, 1925-Dec. 19, 1949 |
|
22 leaves + 143
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| Box 14 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Max Pemberton
|
Aug. 1 1905, Sept. 17, 1905 |
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postcard
|
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|
2 items
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ellen Terry
|
Jan. 17, 1915 |
|
copy
|
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|
2 leaves + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Oct. 22, 1925 |
|
1 leaf + envelope
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Written on Typed Letter Signed to Shaw from Dodd, Mead & Co. on October 10, 1925
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Dec. 14, 1932 |
|
1 leaf
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
July 12, 1933 |
|
telegram
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. [fragment]
|
Sept. 22, 1933 |
|
copy
|
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|
2 leaves + 1
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Nov. 25, 1938 |
|
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Written on Typed Letter Signed to Shaw from Dodd, Mead & Co. on Nov. 16, 1938
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Gabriel Pascal [fragment]
|
Nov. 21, 1939? |
|
1 leaf
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 10 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Autograph Manuscript: Cross-reference slips
|
1942-1944 |
|
11 leaves
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 11 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Jan. 2, 1942 |
|
carbon copy
|
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|
2 leaves
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 12 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Feb. 10, 1942 |
|
carbon copy
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Under separate cover we are sending to you today your six author's copies
of the Florence Farr Letters"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 13 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to W.P. Watt
|
Mar. 27, 1942 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "I am returning herewith the suggested agreement for the Florence Farr book,
duly signed."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 14 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus
|
Apr. 3, 1942 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "We enclose our check for $1,308.24, payable to the Irving Trust Company"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 15 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Document: Contract... [draft]
|
ca. June 9, 1942 |
|
2 leaves + 1
|
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Scope and Contents
For the book Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats;Includes typed explanatory note on separate leaf
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 16 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Autograph Manuscript: Notes on sales of Shaw books
|
1943-1945 |
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4 leaves
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 17 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus
|
Oct. 1, 1942, Apr. 1, 1943 |
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2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "We enclose our check for $713.59 payable to the Irving Trust Company"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 18 |
F.S. Crofts : Typed Document: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Nov. 1, 1942 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Royalty statement
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 19 |
F.S. Crofts : Typed Document: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
May 1, 1943 |
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Royalty statement
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 20 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Sept. 14, 1943 |
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telegram
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Our deepest sympathy and affection."; signed Frank Dodd
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 21 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus
|
Oct. 14, 1943 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "We enclose our check for $983.53 payable to the Irving Trust Company"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 22 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: Internal memo
|
Oct. 18, 1943 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Memorandum to Mr. Dodd / In reading these proofs of Mr. Shaw's book I found
a great many mistakes"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 23 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Nov. 8, 1943 |
|
telegram
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Page proofs your new book received from constable stop"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Nov. 12, 1943 |
|
telegram
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "No certainly not the proofs are unfinished uncorrected and were sent to you
without my knowledge"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 25 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Nov. 17, 1943 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you so much for your cable."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 26 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
May 9, 1944 |
|
telegram
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Very keen about Everybody's Political WhatWhat stop"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 27 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus
|
May 15, 1944 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "We enclose our check for $1272.03 payable to the Irving Trust Company."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 28 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Oct. 24, 1944 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Six copies of our edition of Everybody's Political What's What?were mailed you on October 13th"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 29 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mr. Di Angelus
|
Nov. 3, 1944 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "We enclose our check for $904.06 payable to the Irving Trust Company"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 30 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Mar. 13, 1945 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 31 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Apr. 19, 1945 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 32 |
Brentano, Lowell : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Nov. 28, 1945 |
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telegram
|
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4 leaves
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Have secured reprint deal in accordance with recent conversation"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 33 |
GBS : Document: Printed card "With Bernard Shaw's compliments"
|
Dec. 5, 1945 |
|
card
|
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1 leaf
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 34 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: Internal memo
|
ca. Jan. 30, 1946 |
|
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 35 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Jan. 31, 1946 |
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carbon copy
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4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 36 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Apr. 2, 1946 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "May we publish this summer a selection of autobiographical material from your
prefaces and other writings"
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| Box 14 | Folder 37 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Apr. 17, 1946 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "I object strongly but cannot refuse you and will send you material not otherwise
accessible"
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| Box 14 | Folder 38 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Apr. 18, 1946 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 39 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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May 15, 1946 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Summer catalog going to press and salesmen setting out"
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| Box 14 | Folder 40 |
GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Envelope to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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May 20, 1946 |
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envelope
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1 leaf
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| Box 14 | Folder 41 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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May 24, 1946 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 42 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Document: Invoices to Shaw
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May 28, 1946 |
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2 leaves + 2
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| Box 14 | Folder 43 |
Patch, Blanche : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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June 12, 1946 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 44 |
Kyllmann, Otto : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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July 10, 1946 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "In answer to your letter of the 24th June."
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| Box 14 | Folder 45 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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ca. July 20, 1946 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "The entire staff of Dodd Mead and Company sends you greetings"
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| Box 14 | Folder 46 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: Internal memo
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July 25, 1946 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 47 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Oct. 22, 1946 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf + 2
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 48 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Oct. 28, 1946 |
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carbon copy
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 49 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Oct. 30, 1946 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Sorry impossible my contracts with Penguin and Oxford University Press forbid"
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| Box 14 | Folder 50 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Nov. 8, 1946 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "We were greatly disappointed over your cable concerning the proposed Shaw
Reader."
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| Box 14 | Folder 51 |
Winsten, Stephen : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Nov. 11, 1946 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "The American edition of G.B.S.90 has just reached me."
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| Box 14 | Folder 52 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Nov. 16, 1946 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 53 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Stephen Winsten
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Nov. 19, 1946 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 54 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Nov. 20, 1946 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 55 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Nov. 26, 1946 |
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postcard
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1 item
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Scope and Contents
Begins "'An omnibus selection' is a contradiction in terms."
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| Box 14 | Folder 56 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Document: Invoice to Shaw
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Dec. 5, 1946 |
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1 leaf + 1
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| Box 14 | Folder 57 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Dec. 17, 1946 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 58 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Jan. 15, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 59 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Jan. 20, 1947 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Don't engage anyone to edit the autobiographical collection."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 60 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Feb. 3, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you for your post card. We certainly shall not let anyone 'edit' the
material."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 61 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
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Feb. 3, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 62 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Otto Kyllmann
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Feb. 3, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 63 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Feb. 9, 1947 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you for your letter of February 3rd."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 64 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
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Feb. 18, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 65 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Feb. 25, 1947 |
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1 leaf + 2
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 66 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
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Mar. 19, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 67 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Mar. 19, 1947 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
"Cable decision appreciated."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 68 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
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Mar. 20, 1947 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
"Letter mailed yesterday."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 69 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Mar. 27, 1947 |
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postcard
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1 leaf + 4
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 70 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
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Apr. 3, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you for your interesting letter. It makes matters a lot clearer."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 71 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Apr. 4, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "We have indeed declined the publication of The Miraculous Birth of Language by Prof. Richard Albert Wilson."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 72 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Apr. 12, 1947 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 73 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Apr. 21, 1947 |
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postcard
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "I prefer annual accounts;"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 74 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Apr. 24, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "We have been studying the table of contents you sent us for the selection
of autobiographical writings of Shaw."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 75 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
April 24, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you for forwarding on the letter from Carlton Lake."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 76 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
May 9, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "The owner of the Shaw Letter sold out of the Hogan Estate,"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 77 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
May 20, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 78 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
May 23, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 79 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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May 28, 1947 |
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2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Fred: / Please give me a check for $250.00 payable to F.E. Loewenstein"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 80 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
June 4, 1947 |
|
carbon copy
|
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|
1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 81 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
June 4, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 82 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
June 17, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 83 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
June 19, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you for your note. We will assume, then, that Canadian rights are ours"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 84 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Aug. 6, 1947 |
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postcard
|
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|
1 leaf + 1
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|
Scope and Contents
Includes typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Many thanks for cheque duly
received at Westminster Bank."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 85 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co. [excerpt]
|
Aug. 10, 1947 |
|
copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "As to the projected book of autobiographic sketches, for which I have written
some new pages, I propose"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 86 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Aug. 19, 1947 |
|
carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 87 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Aug. 20, 1947 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 88 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Aug. 20, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 89 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to William H. Wise
|
Aug. 20, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 90 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Aug. 27, 1947 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 91 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Aug. 28, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 92 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Blanche Patch
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Sept. 3, 1947 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "I am afraid I don't know the Pantagraph Press of Bloomington, Ill."
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| Box 14 | Folder 93 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Sept. 3, 1947 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 94 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
|
Sept. 4, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 95 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to William H. Wise
|
Sept. 5, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Mr. John Crawley suggested I write you about the following matter."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 96 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Sept. 10, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Your letter of September 3 brings surprising news but you make it sound like
very good news."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 97 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Sept. 17, 1947 |
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postcard
|
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|
1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you very much for your letter of the 10th."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 98 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Sept. 26, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you for your information about completion of the book."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 99 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Oct. 23, 1947 |
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postcard
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|
1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
Includes typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Mr. Shaw has finished the following:
Chapter: Apology"
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 100 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Oct. 31, 1947 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Thank you for your postcard. They are always welcome, and this one sounds
interesting."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 101 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to William H. Wise
|
Oct. 31, 1947 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "I wonder if my letter to you of September 5, 1947 could have gone astray."
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| Box 14 | Folder 102 |
Batson, Eric J. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Dec. 30, 1947 |
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 103 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Jan. 13, 1948 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 104 |
Kennerley, Mitchell : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Jan. 22, 1948 |
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2 leaves
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 105 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Mitchell Kennerley
|
Jan. 26, 1948 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Many thanks for your very clear explanation of the mystery of the missing
press clippings."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 106 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Loewenstein
|
Jan. 26, 1948 |
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carbon copy
|
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1 leaf
|
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|
Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 107 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Feb. 20, 1948 |
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1 leaf
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|
Scope and Contents
Begins "Dear Dodds, Englosed is my latest play, for the present a deed secret."
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 108 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
|
Apr. 13, 1948 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "The Autobiographic Scraps & Sketches is being put through with all possible
expedition for you."
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| Box 14 | Folder 109 |
Loewenstein, F.E. : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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June 16, 1948 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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| Box 14 | Folder 110 |
GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: Ireland by Clipper
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July 1948 |
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copy
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 14 | Folder 111 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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July 12, 1948 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Drown your designer. There is nothing so ugly in print as a combination of
type with ordinary handwriting."
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| Box 14 | Folder 112 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Aug. 5, 1948 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "We are at cross purposes."
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| Box 14 | Folder 113 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Aug. 10, 1948 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Yes, Self Sketchesdoes, as you say, come trippingly off the tongue, and I will protest no longer."
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| Box 14 | Folder 114 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Aug. 13, 1948 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "Somehow Self Sketchestout court, is unattractive: it needs another word to give it a swing."
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| Box 14 | Folder 115 |
Dodd, Mead & Co. : Typed Letter: to Shaw
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Sept. 2, 1948 |
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carbon copy
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "We much prefer Self Sketches, short though it may be."
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| Box 14 | Folder 116 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Sept. 23, 1948 |
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card
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Typed on printed correspondence card: Laurence D3; begins "This must be stuck to uncompromizingly."
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| Box 14 | Folder 117 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Apr. 1, 1949 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "There are two questions on which you are pressing me: both difficult."
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| Box 14 | Folder 118 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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May 10, 1949 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "As you are still infatuated about $5 Selections, there is no reason why I
should not indulge you,"
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| Box 14 | Folder 119 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Dec. 19, 1949 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "I do not understand the economies of this Book Club business"
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1931-1937
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| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
GBS : Letter: to Lord Alfred Douglas
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Apr. 16, 1931 |
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copy
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2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 15 | Folder 2 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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Apr. 23, 1931 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Paris; begins "After a string of misunderstandings"
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| Box 15 | Folder 3 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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May 2, 1931 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Paris; Begins "The cold turns out to be congestion of the right lung;"
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| Box 15 | Folder 4 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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May 5, 1931 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Paris; begins "It's now settled that we return on"
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| Box 15 | Folder 5 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to Mr. Hieatt
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June 18, 1931 |
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carbon copy
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2 leaves + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 15 | Folder 6 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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July 29, 1931 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Moscow; begins "Your card, not stamped, arrived"
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| Box 15 | Folder 7 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to ? [initialed]
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Oct. 12, 1931 |
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card
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "What in hell is this?"
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| Box 15 | Folder 8 |
GBS : Envelope addressed to Henry Kiell Ayliff in Shaw's hand
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1932? |
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envelope
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1 item
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| Box 15 | Folder 9 |
GBS : Letter Signed: to Lennox Robinson
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1932 |
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printed circular letter
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1 leaf + 2
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 15 | Folder 10 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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Jan. 22, 1932 |
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postcard
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Capetown; begins "The Holden account is right, as he made"
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| Box 15 | Folder 11 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Commander Newton [initialed]
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Feb. 14, 1932 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 15 | Folder 12 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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Feb. 17, 1932 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Knysna C.P., South Africa; Begins "Dear Blanche / Any travelling just now is out of
hte question for Mrs."
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| Box 15 | Folder 13 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Commander Newton [initialed]
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Mar. 7, 1932 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Knysna; begins "My dear Newton / At last I think I have some firm news. After ups
and"
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| Box 15 | Folder 14 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to H.G. Wells [initialed]
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Mar. 19, 1932 |
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3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 15 | Folder 15 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed]
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Apr. 10, 1932 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Begins "I used up all my writing blocks on the voyage and cannot"
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| Box 15 | Folder 16 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh
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May 8, 1932 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 15 | Folder 17 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh
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May 24, 1932 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear Mr. Farleigh / Good: I think you can make a real job of it."
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| Box 15 | Folder 18 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh
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May 27, 1932 |
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card
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "That is all right, of course; so / go ahead."
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| Box 15 | Folder 19 |
GBS : Typed Letter: to John Farleigh
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June 10, 1932 |
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telegram
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Will you lunch with me at Whitehall Court"
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| Box 15 | Folder 20 |
GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Gene Tunney [initialed]
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June 16, 1932 |
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2 leaves + envelope
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Scope and Contents
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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| Box 15 | Folder 21 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh
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July 6, 1932 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
With copy; London; begins "Dear Mr. Farleigh / Yes: the portrait cover of course."
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| Box 15 | Folder 22 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh
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July 13, 1932 |
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1 leaf + 1
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Scope and Contents
With copy; London; begins "Dear Mr. Farleigh / Don't bother about me: it is your job"
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| Box 15 | Folder 23 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh
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July 18, 1932 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / This chap is wrong: he is standing at ease"
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| Box 15 | Folder 24 |
GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to John Farleigh
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July 22, 1932 |
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
London; begins "Dear John Farleigh / As to the beanstalk I could only express"
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| Box 15 | Folder 25 |
GBS : Autograph Letter: to John Farleigh
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Aug. 10, 1932 |
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calling card
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1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Great Malvern; begins "Just catching the post. Will write when you"
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