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Auction: 314 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1120

Shaw, George Bernard Writer (1856-1950); Desirable quintet of items, including Autograph Letter Signed "G. Bernard Shaw," 2 pages, 12mo, Blen-cathia, Hindhead, August 14, 1899. He writes "My dear Storr, We are off tomorrow - out of Blen-cathia for good...My London address is 29 Fitzroy Square, London W (Telegrams ´Socialist, London,´)...I am always to be found at my wife´s address, but she is never to be found at mine. I send you a set of fuits from the negatives the Kodak people made of you [not present..." With ALS "G.B.S." 1 page, 12mo card imprinted with his name and addresses, Ayot St Lawrence, January 13, 1946, To Curis Freshel of New York. "I am now a B-Y addict and take some every day. Why should you sell the business now...? You would go to pieces with nothing to do. Make Emeral try all the quacks: especially the aesthetic ones. They will at least amuse her. The doctors are useless; but she must not simply succumb. She must find out how to cure herself and live...You cannot be my friend and my debtor. Wipe out all that: you owe me nothing; and if you send me a cheque I will put it in the fire..." Also with a TLS "G. Bernard Shaw," 1 page, oblong 8vo, London, May 4, 1932. He tells Mr Sandilands, "I shall not go to the Spare show because I am not a buyer of works of art; and I share the general reluctance to disappoint a shopkeeper by walking around without buying anything...I have not yet met with any normal British householders who would care to live with one of Mr Spare´s drawings, or bring up their families in contemplation of them..." Also with a choice Western Union Cablegram, November 22, 1929, to Journalist George Sylvester Viereck in New York. It reads, "NO MORE INTERVIEWS HAVE HAD TO REPUDIATE LAST AND STOP SECOND INSTALMENT [sic] IN SUNDAY EXPRESS YOU NEVER UNDERSTAND A WORD I SAY - SHAW." Shaw had previously written to complain to Viereck for badly misrepresenting his views (see lot 1597 in our sale 301). Finally, with a Photograph of Shaw later in life holding a photograph of a woman, with stamp on verso from the Bettman Archive. Photo edges slightly uneven, typed letter unevenly toned from display, otherwise all VG. [5]

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