GEORGE BERNARD SHAW - TYPED NOTE SIGNED 10/01/1950 - HFSID 253987
Sale Price $1,360.00
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
George Bernard Shaw sends a typed note giving his permission to quote
his letter.
Typed Note Signed: "G. Bernard Shaw/10-1-1950" on verso of
5½x3½ postal card. Welwyn, Herts, 1950 January 10. To J.W. Robertson
Scott, Idbury Manor, Kingham, Oxford. In full: "You have my
permission to use quote in full my letter on page 154 of
your book, to which you refer." 3 handwritten corrections (bolded).
Handwritten postscript at upper margin: "Hyndman's full name was Henry
Mayers Hyndman, not F.G. as you have typed it. F.G. was Greenwood."
Addressed by typewriter on verso. Lightly creased. Shaded from prior framing.
Postal markings touch writing (all legible). Paper clip impression at upper
right margin touches 1 word of writing. Overall, fine condition. Accompanied
by unsigned photograph of Shaw. B/w, 4½x6½. Minor surface creases (not
evident head on), else fine condition. Written just ten months before Shaw's
death on November 2, 1950. This letter mentions HENRY MAYERS HYNDMAN
(1842-1921), who was a British socialist whom Shaw had met in 1882, when he
had joined the Social Democratic Federation. The organization was headed by
Hyndman, who introduced him to the works of Karl Marx. Shaw would leave the
SDF in 1884 to join the Fabian Society, and his plays and other works often
reflected socialistic values. Both Hyndman and Shaw had written articles for
the "Pall Mall Gazette". In the year of this letter, Scott, the recipient of
this letter, published The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette. The
"F.G." or "Greenwood" referred to in this letter was likely a
reference to a letter written to Hyndman in 1913 by a Miss F.L. Greenwood, who
expressed sympathy on the death of Hyndman's wife. GEORGE BERNARD
SHAW (1856-1950), the 1925 Nobel Prize-winning Dublin-born British
playwright and critic, is best known for his plays Man and Superman,
Candida, Pygmalion (the basis for My Fair Lady), Saint
Joan and Major Barbara. Shaw had also been one of the contributors
to Scott's successful magazine, "The Countryman" (other contributors
included G.K. Chesterton, Hugh Walpole and a number of prominent politicians).
J.W. ROBERTSON SCOTT, a respected journalist and writer on rural affairs
in Britain and abroad, had founded "The Countryman" magazine in 1927 and
published it from his estate, Idbury Manor, until his retirement in 1949,
when the magazine's operations were moved to Burford in Oxfordshire. Scott had
previously published England's Green and Pleasant Land (1947) and would
later publish compilations of articles and photographs from his magazine as well
as several other books, such as The Day Before Yesterday: Memories of an
Uneducated Man (1951) and We' and Me (1956). Two
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