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Box 7

 Container

Contains 31 Results:

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Resolution proposed by Shaw, n.d.

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 7
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"

Dates: n.d.

GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Royal Society of Literature proposal by Shaw, seconded by Edmund Gosse, June 30-July 15, 1922

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

The proposal was made to the Academic Council of the Society; includes a note by Bernard F. Burgunder

Dates: June 30-July 15, 1922

GBS : Typed Manuscript: Sequence for a Pageant of Plays and Players, Ca. November 5, 1947

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 9
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

Dates: Ca. November 5, 1947

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Shaw Gives Himself Away [Frontispiece], June 1939

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 10
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

Dates: June 1939

GBS : Typed Manuscript: Short Stories; Scraps; and Shavings, n.d.

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Blurb or press release; includes explanatory note from Bernard F. Burgunder

Dates: n.d.

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Shorthand note, n.d.

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 12
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]"

Dates: n.d.

GBS : Autograph Manuscript Signed: Sir Edward Carson's Other Island, October 6, 1918

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 13
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

Dates: October 6, 1918

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Speech for Mrs. Campbell, 1928

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

On Cornell Bond paper of the pencil manuscript and the typed manuscript

Dates: 1928

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: Sweet shorthand, Ca. 1902-1904

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 15
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

Dates: Ca. 1902-1904

GBS : Typed Manuscript: "Taste" and "Cock Robin" [Doggerel verse written to Mrs. Patrick Campbell], 1912, 1913

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 16
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

Dates: 1912; 1913