Box 2

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

A statement concerning the relationship between Shaw's Arms and the Man and Oscar Strauss's The Chocolate Soldier (original-Der Tapfere Soldat)

Rehearsal notes; various dates, in Shaw's hand, appear on the manuscript

Article appeared in Time and Tide of February 10, 1945; later reprinted in Time and Tide Anthology in 1956; note by Bernard Burgunder included

Corner of a document cut off to show only Shaw's signature; in envelope

Lists a series of topics for thirteen lectures, and possible speakers

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

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

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' ..."

For the Limited Editions club Edition, which was published in 1939 with a quite different title page