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Box 15

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Contains 98 Results:

GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to ? [initialed], June 22, 1936

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 71
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The clipping advertises an amateur performance of Shaw's You Never Can Tellin Egypt; includes a note by Bernard F. Burgunder; London; begins "I have written to Routledge that the matter"

Dates: June 22, 1936

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Sydney Carroll, June 22, 1936

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 72
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London; begins "My dear Sydney Carroll / Have you ever asked yourself this momentous question?"

Dates: June 22, 1936

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to [Dr.?] Forbath, July 10, 1936

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 73
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Shaw discusses his "public" and "private" handwriting, giving examples of both; London; begins "Dear [Dr.] Forbath / My secretary has discovered the enclosed soiled scraps of my handwriting / 40 years"

Dates: July 10, 1936

GBS : Letter: to Lord Alfred Douglas, Apr. 16, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 1
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Venice; begins "Dear Lord Alfred Douglas / It is a pity that Wilde still tempts men to write Lives of him. If ever there was a writer whose prayer to posterity might well have been 'Read my works; and let my life alone' it was Oscar."

Dates: Apr. 16, 1931

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed], May 2, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 3
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Paris; Begins "The cold turns out to be congestion of the right lung;"

Dates: May 2, 1931

GBS : Typed Letter: to Mr. Hieatt, June 18, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 5
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London; Shaw discusses his complaints about a garbage dump; includes explanatory note on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Hieatt / I am much obliged to you for sending me the letter of the"

Dates: June 18, 1931

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to ? [initialed], Oct. 12, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 7
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Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "What in hell is this?"

Dates: Oct. 12, 1931