SHAW RECOMMENDS A FRIEND WITH THE HIGHEST PRAISE
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Arthur STREET
(1892-1951, Civil Servant, Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry through the 2nd World War) apologising for “this intrusion from a stranger, and the use of your private address; I don’t know your official one. Some time ago a very brilliantly written novel entitled Sagittarius appeared, written by an ace surviving from 1914-18 named Cecil Lewis. I know him personally. He is in the R.A.F. at Gillingham, doing work that anybody could do. Why not make him official historian of the R.A.F.? He would do it very well. He is a tremendously quick worker with his pen - almost as quick as Mr Lloyd George - and he is a vigorous and competent. organiser of a department. Ask Sir John Reith about him. He is an exceptionally presentable figure, towereing over mere six footers like me. It is a pity to waste him on a routine job. He is sober, honest and industrious, by the way. Again forgive my butting in...”, 1 side A4, 4 Whitehall Court headed paper, 4th October
Item Date:
1939
Stock No:
42535
£774
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YOUR ESSAY IS RUBBISH
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Excoriating Typed Letter Signed to Mr Hecht in Switzerland
saying that it is "no use asking me or any one else who is up to date in economics to go back to the eighteenth century on the ground that we should begin at the beginning. You might as well ask us to go back to the Ptolemaic astromony. Your essay is rubbish. When you began there seemed some hope ... all you needed apparently was to master what had already been worked out in abstract economics: that is, the supply-and-demand theory as completed by Jevons and the Swiss and Austrian economists, and the theory of rent. But you have not done so: you go on blundering over elementary matters and trying to ford rivers that have been bridged for half a century and you have lost all your freshness, and taken to dull abuse of the experts ... The only definition of a luxury that I have ever been able to arrive at is something that would not be produced if the user had to earn it instead of getting it for nothing. No other line can be drawn ... Please don't send me any more essays. Buy an island and live on it with Major Douglas ... have a happy time explaining to one another how to save the world from financial ruin ...", 2 sides oblong 8vo., 10 Adelphi Terrace headed paper, 26th July
Item Date:
1922
Stock No:
37133
£875
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SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Fine photo signed with the place and date
showing him in profile seated in a magnificent carved chair on a raised stage with a lectern, an audience is visible in the background, 9" x 7", Edinburgh, 28th October together
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
36142
£750
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[SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)]
Fine unsigned Sunday Times press photo
showing him head and shoulders in profile, with his white bushy beard and his glasses on his head, 8" x 6", no place, no date,
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0
Stock No:
28259
£65
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SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Autograph picture postcard signed with initials to Miss Gillmore,
saying that "So far I have missed only one of the addresses I gave you - that at Rouen. If you sent anything there, let me know. I slept at Neufchatel instead. The weather is Arctic; we came through two snowstorms yesterday, and the east wind today - a biting icy gale - froze us stiff ...", with autograph direction on the same side and a black and white picture of the Church of Notre Dame-la-Grande in Poitiers on the verso, 5½" x 3½", no place but postmarked from France, 4th April, date illegible
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0
Stock No:
41503
£375
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