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Box 17

 Container

Contains 105 Results:

GBS : Typed Letter Signed: to Clare Winsten, Sept. 11, 1944 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 17
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Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "My dear Clare / Forgive the orgy of bullying bad manners in which I indulged on Sunday / Its intention was friendly but as it did not produce"

Dates: Sept. 11, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to British Broadcasting Company [initialed], Oct. 12, 1944 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 18
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Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from B.H. Alexander for the B.B.C.; begins "Is the broadcast to be in English or Chinese?"

Dates: Oct. 12, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Bertha Newcombe, Dec. 18, 1944 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 19
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Ayot St. Lawrence; purchased from Swann Galleries, February 2, 1995; includes one 10 shillings note and 1 photo of Mrs. Shaw; begins "My dear Bertha / the ten shillings is for / Ann, if she still exists."

Dates: Dec. 18, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed & Typed Letter Signed: to Lawrence Smith, 1944-1950 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Includes 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 7 Typed Letters Signed; Quaritch, 8/03

Dates: 1944-1950

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten [initialed], Dec. 20, 1944 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 21
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Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "...for the Shavian News design / This is the fee I mentioned to your mother"

Dates: Dec. 20, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten, Jan. 21, 1945 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 22
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Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Theodora / The enclosed draft of the letter which should accompany your design"

Dates: Jan. 21, 1945

GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company, Jan. 22, 1945 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 23
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Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from S. McGrath[?] for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. No charge"

Dates: Jan. 22, 1945

GBS : Typed & Autograph Letter: to John Wardrop, Feb. 1945 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 24
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Includes handwritten and typed copies; both copies appear to be transcripts, made perhaps by Blanche Patch; begins "Your letter is an alarming one: I perceive that I am ruining you,"

Dates: Feb. 1945

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed], Feb. 12, 1945 Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 25
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Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "At Wardrop's earnest request I / sent him a few"

Dates: Feb. 12, 1945

GBS : Typed Letter: to Eleanor O'Connell, Feb. 17, 1945? Request Item

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 26
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Shaw apparently sent this copy to Miss Patch with his letter to her of the same day, for her information. The letter is to an older woman with whom young John Wardrop was consorting and whom he had passed off as his wife to Shaw, according to Dan H. Laurence; begins "He proved impossible. He was too young, too excitable."

Dates: Feb. 17, 1945?