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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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
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41503
£375
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"I AM NOT A PHILANTHROPIST"
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Caustic Autograph Note Signed with initials on his Compliments slip to an unnamed correspondent,
after the printed "With Bernard Shaw's compliments" he has written "but do not ask me again, as I am not a philanthropist ...", 4½" x 2", 4 Whitehall Court, London, 5th December
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
41497
£325
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SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Autograph Note Signed with initials on his Compliments slip to an unnamed correspondent,
"This letter is far too interesting to be buried in my files. I am sure the writer will be proud to see it in the correspondence column of the T.L.S. ...", 4½" x 2¼", 4 Whitehall Court, London, 14th July
slightly soiled
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
41432
£275
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AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY OF THIS SCARCE LEAFLET
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
"THe Unprotected Child and the Law"
fine copy of this scarce 8 page leaflet in grey paper wraps, lettered in black, First Edition, printed by "The Six Point Group" (Women's Printing Society), London, no date, Laurence A167, circa
Item Date:
1923
Stock No:
39286
£125
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