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Box 6

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Contains 32 Results:

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: John Bull's Other Island [set design], n.d.

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 1
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

Dates: n.d.

GBS : Typed Manuscript: Literary Note, ca. February 1921

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 3
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

Dates: ca. February 1921

GBS : Typed Manuscript: Macbeth Skit, January 10, 1916

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 4
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

Dates: January 10, 1916

GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Major Barbara, Ca. April 1922

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Note for files; records authorization given to the Mansfield House Players to perform Major Barbara April 29, 1922

Dates: Ca. April 1922

GBS : Typed Manuscript: Major Barbara [scenes for film], 1944?

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 6
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...
Dates: 1944?

GBS : Autograph Note: Memorandum of "Royalty Shares" in the publication of the Shaw-Terry correspondence in 1931, n.d.

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 8
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: 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...
Dates: n.d.

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum, ca. 1879

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Review of a production by Henry Irving, with editor's comments; original manuscript in the British Museum

Dates: ca. 1879

GBS : Typed Manuscript: "The most profusely punctuated book in the English language is...", n.d.

 Item — Box: 6, Folder: 10
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

Dates: n.d.