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Box 17

 Container

Contains 105 Results:

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Charles Graves [initialed], June 29, 1950

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 101
Scope and Contents

Begins "My dear Charles / Forget me: I am out of date. I don't"

Dates: June 29, 1950

GBS : Autograph Letter: to Europa Films [shorthand draft], June 30, 1950

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 102
Scope and Contents

London; both letters deal with film rights in Sweden to Shaw's Pygmalion; with "translation" and accompanying note by Bernard Burgunder

Dates: June 30, 1950

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to I. William Prior [initialed], July 17, 1950

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 103
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is an answer to a letter from Prior to Shaw dated July 15, 1950, and appears on the same sheet with it; begins "I have not changed my registered"

Dates: July 17, 1950

GBS : Typed Letter: to Blanche Patch, Sept. 9, 1950

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 104
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; literary advice on the writing of her autobiography Thirty Years With G.B.S.; with copy of letter, apparently made by Blanche Patch; begins "My dear Blanche / Make a very sparing use of the"

Dates: Sept. 9, 1950

GBS : Autograph Letter: to Gordon Reynolds Walters [shorthand], 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Letter in Pitman shorthand; with typed transcript, apparently made by Blanche Patch; begins "Dear Mr. Walters, The proposed marriage of a gentleman of 70 with a lady"

Dates: 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company, Jan. 15, 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

London; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from S. McGrath for the B.B.C.; begins "No fee. The extract, in"

Dates: Jan. 15, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed], Jan. 21, 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "You must be rolling in money to plunge / into"

Dates: Jan. 21, 1944

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Charles Kay Ogden [initialed], Jan. 21, 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

London; holograph corrections and additions; discussion of language simplification; begins "My dear Ogden / Wake up, man: wake up. / You have utterly misunderstood my letter and missed the / point of it."

Dates: Jan. 21, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to J. Robertson Scott, Feb. 5, 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; with explanatory note by Dan H. Laurence; begins "I never spoke to Stead in my life, nor even saw him except once at a public meeting."

Dates: Feb. 5, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company, Feb. 12, 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is in response to a request from B.H. Alexander of the B.B.C.; begins "My secretary tells me that I never"

Dates: Feb. 12, 1944