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 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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SHAWE-TAYLOR
(Desmond, 1907-1995, Irish literary and music critic, published 'The Record Guide', 1951)
1 Autograph Letter Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed to Harold Chipp of the Cheltenham Gramophone Society,
saying "Will you please forgive me for declining your flattering invitation ? Lecturing is a world in itself ... Of course I remember you at the Festival" (11th July 1950), and regretting that he "can never be certain, so far ahead, what engagements I may have to cover professionally in London or elsewhere" (10th March 1964), 2 sides folio and 4to., Long Crichel House, Wimborne & 10 St Andrew's Place, N.W.1., 1950 -
neat filing holes in blank margins, a few light rust marks from paper clips
Item Date:
1964
Stock No:
52726
£75
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SHEPARD
(Ernest Howard, 1879-1976, Illustrator of "Winnie the Pooh")
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Pamela Rolfe
thanking her for her "very kind congratulations and for remembering the days at Long Meadow. I am waiting for instructions as to what to wear at the investiture and I hope it may be at a reasonable time for Norah and I to drive to London. I am glad to know you are still teaching and enjoy it ...", 1 side 8vo., Woodmancote, Lodsworth, nr Petworth headed paper, with original autograph envelope, 7th July
Item Date:
1972
Stock No:
40787
£275
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