Shaw, George Bernard : Autographed letter to Sylvia Lyons. Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn Hertsforshire, Mar. 17, 1950
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Warns Lyons not to come to visit him and to bring her son to the zoo instead. With manuscript shorthand fragment of the opening scene of "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets". Also included is Supplementary Material (Original purchased by another buyer) of a letter written by Shaw in Pittman shorthand describing how he uses shorthand for his writing. Rudin # B-119
Dates
- Mar. 17, 1950
Creator
- From the Collection: Rudin, Stephen (Collector, Person)
- From the Collection: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. (Person)
- From the Collection: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. (Person)
- From the Collection: Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. (Person)
- From the Collection: Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. (Person)
- From the Collection: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910. (Person)
- From the Collection: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. (Person)
- From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (Person)
- From the Collection: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930. (Person)
- From the Collection: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. (Person)
- From the Collection: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. (Person)
- From the Collection: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. (Person)
- From the Collection: Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. (Person)
- From the Collection: Grey, Zane, 1872-1939. (Person)
- From the Collection: Haley, Alex. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. (Person)
- From the Collection: Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. (Person)
- From the Collection: London, Jack, 1876-1916. (Person)
- From the Collection: Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. (Person)
- From the Collection: Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. (Person)
- From the Collection: Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. (Person)
- From the Collection: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. (Person)
- From the Collection: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. (Person)
- From the Collection: Serling, Rod, 1924-1975. (Person)
- From the Collection: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. (Person)
- From the Collection: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. (Person)
- From the Collection: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. (Person)
- From the Collection: Vonnegut, Kurt. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. (Person)
- From the Collection: White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
3.2 cubic feet. (3.2 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu