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Box 13

 Container

Contains 114 Results:

GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to Olga Nethersole [initialed], Nov. 1, 1923

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

London; includes facsimile of address on envelope; begins "What! Be wasted on the chair!"

Dates: Nov. 1, 1923

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Conal O'Riordan [initialed], Nov. 21, 1923

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

London; one leaf is a dealer description of the letter; "The proposal" is evidently for O'Riordan to write a book about Shaw; the envelope is addressed in a hand other than Shaw's; begins "My dear Conal / Unless the proposal involves an advance of at least"

Dates: Nov. 21, 1923

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring, Jan. 30, 1924

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 32
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: Jan. 30, 1924

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Werner Laurie, Feb. 11, 1924

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

London; apparently in response to a request for autobiographical material; with explanatory note on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Werner Laurie / Many people complain that it has never occurred to me to do anything else"

Dates: Feb. 11, 1924

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George Herbert Thring, Feb. 12, 1924

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

London; begins "My dear Thring, In answer to yours of the 2nd about the"

Dates: Feb. 12, 1924

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Henry W. Massingham, Feb. 27, 1924

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

London; on the publication history of his article "On Going To Church"; gift of Bernard F. Burgunder, nov. 17, 1978; begins "My dear Massingham, On Going To Church is an"

Dates: Feb. 27, 1924

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to George E. MacIlwain, Mar. 25, 1924

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents

London; begins "Dear Sir / I am much obliged to you for sending me the two columns of Needham news from the Boston Globe"

Dates: Mar. 25, 1924

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Hesketh Pearson [initialed], Apr. 13, 1924

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; Pearson is one of Shaw's biographers; with a note by Bernard F. Burgunder; begins "William being Silent at the top of his"

Dates: Apr. 13, 1924

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Mrs. Forsyth Button, June 4, 1924

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents

London; acquired May 1992; begins "Why, when I have done a particularly / long and hard job"

Dates: June 4, 1924