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Box 17

 Container

Contains 105 Results:

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to I. William Prior [initialed], July 17, 1950

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 103
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is an answer to a letter from Prior to Shaw dated July 15, 1950, and appears on the same sheet with it; begins "I have not changed my registered"

Dates: July 17, 1950

GBS : Typed Letter: to Blanche Patch, Sept. 9, 1950

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 104
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; literary advice on the writing of her autobiography Thirty Years With G.B.S.; with copy of letter, apparently made by Blanche Patch; begins "My dear Blanche / Make a very sparing use of the"

Dates: Sept. 9, 1950

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Bertha Newcombe, Dec. 18, 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; purchased from Swann Galleries, February 2, 1995; includes one 10 shillings note and 1 photo of Mrs. Shaw; begins "My dear Bertha / the ten shillings is for / Ann, if she still exists."

Dates: Dec. 18, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed & Typed Letter Signed: to Lawrence Smith, 1944-1950

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 7 Typed Letters Signed; Quaritch, 8/03

Dates: 1944-1950

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten [initialed], Dec. 20, 1944

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "...for the Shavian News design / This is the fee I mentioned to your mother"

Dates: Dec. 20, 1944

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Theodora Winsten, Jan. 21, 1945

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "Dear Theodora / The enclosed draft of the letter which should accompany your design"

Dates: Jan. 21, 1945

GBS : Autograph Note Signed: to British Broadcasting Company, Jan. 22, 1945

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; this letter is on the same sheet as a letter to Shaw from S. McGrath[?] for the B.B.C.; begins "O.K. No charge"

Dates: Jan. 22, 1945

GBS : Typed & Autograph Letter: to John Wardrop, Feb. 1945

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Includes handwritten and typed copies; both copies appear to be transcripts, made perhaps by Blanche Patch; begins "Your letter is an alarming one: I perceive that I am ruining you,"

Dates: Feb. 1945

GBS : Autograph Letter Signed: to Blanche Patch [initialed], Feb. 12, 1945

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Ayot St. Lawrence; begins "At Wardrop's earnest request I / sent him a few"

Dates: Feb. 12, 1945

GBS : Typed Letter: to Eleanor O'Connell, Feb. 17, 1945?

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Shaw apparently sent this copy to Miss Patch with his letter to her of the same day, for her information. The letter is to an older woman with whom young John Wardrop was consorting and whom he had passed off as his wife to Shaw, according to Dan H. Laurence; begins "He proved impossible. He was too young, too excitable."

Dates: Feb. 17, 1945?