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Box 12

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Contains 92 Results:

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed], May 4, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 34
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London; begins "My dear Lady Gregory, I have practically pledged myself"

Dates: May 4, 1917

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Lt. W.J. Wills, May 28, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 35
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London; with typed transcription on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Wills / How do you feel about it generally?"

Dates: May 28, 1917

GBS : Typed Letter: to Sergei Ivanov, June 21, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 36
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Gift of Dan H. Laurence, January 1989; acquired by him as a discard from the British Museum; see his letter to J. Tyler of January 10, 1989; with a note in the hand of Dan H. Laurence near bottom of the sheet; original letter unlocated; begins "Dear Sir / I have written an article for you"

Dates: June 21, 1917

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Augusta, Lady Gregory [initialed], July 26, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 37
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London; begins "He literally was hovering over our chimney / pots with"

Dates: July 26, 1917

GBS : Typed Letter: to Sir Horace Plunkett, Aug. 3, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 38
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On the Irish political situation; with an explanatory "Note from Dan H. Laurence" on separate leaf signed B.F. Burgunder and dated May 10, 1977; begins "My dear Plunkett / I approach the question before the convention"

Dates: Aug. 3, 1917

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman, Aug. 10, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 39
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Priors Field, Surrey; Shaw on music; Newman was a music critic; begins "My dear Newman / You have not tumbled to the joke about Strauss's Joseph. My elaborate apology"

Dates: Aug. 10, 1917

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman, Oct. 5, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 40
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Kenmare, Co. Kerry; begins "My dear Newman / This is a reply to your letter from Nottingham"

Dates: Oct. 5, 1917

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Ernest Newman, Oct. 25, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 41
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Newman was a music critic; London; begins "My dear Newman / It is really rather interesting"

Dates: Oct. 25, 1917

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to B.H. Stern, Nov. 2, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 42
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: Nov. 2, 1917

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to W. Perriton Maxwell, Nov. 9, 1917

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 43
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London; this letter is on the reverse side of a letter to Shaw from W. Perriton Maxwell; begins "After death, what then?"

Dates: Nov. 9, 1917