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Box 15

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Contains 98 Results:

GBS : Letter: to Lord Alfred Douglas, Apr. 16, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 1
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Venice; begins "Dear Lord Alfred Douglas / It is a pity that Wilde still tempts men to write Lives of him. If ever there was a writer whose prayer to posterity might well have been 'Read my works; and let my life alone' it was Oscar."

Dates: Apr. 16, 1931

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed], May 2, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 3
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Paris; Begins "The cold turns out to be congestion of the right lung;"

Dates: May 2, 1931

GBS : Typed Letter: to Mr. Hieatt, June 18, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 5
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London; Shaw discusses his complaints about a garbage dump; includes explanatory note on separate leaf; begins "Dear Mr. Hieatt / I am much obliged to you for sending me the letter of the"

Dates: June 18, 1931

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to ? [initialed], Oct. 12, 1931

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 7
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Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "What in hell is this?"

Dates: Oct. 12, 1931

GBS : Letter Signed: to Lennox Robinson, 1932

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 9
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Printed circular letter, headed "The Irish Academy of Letter," signed by Shaw and by W.B. Yeats, and addressed in Yeats' hand to Lennox Robinson; bought at Sotheby's, NY, Dec. 11, 1989; begins "Dear Sir, We have at present in Ireland no organisation"

Dates: 1932

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed], Jan. 22, 1932

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 10
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Capetown; begins "The Holden account is right, as he made"

Dates: Jan. 22, 1932