Lot 345
Shaw, George Bernard
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
4 autograph letters, including one signed G. Bernard Shaw and the others in Shaw's hand signed G.B.S., comprising: a letter to the journalist Henry William Massingham, dated 12th Feb. 1920, 11.5 x 17.5cm, describing the strain of having to, "Produce a big play in three weeks", Shaw writes: "... It has been an infernal experience; and unless I can get my weekend in the country I shall perish, like Swift, in the mad house..."; two letters to his friend, the Fabian, Edward Pease, one complaining about commission rates for a book, dated 10th Feb. 1910, 11 x 9cm, and another writing the, "The Nursery report is utterly impossible… The statement that Louis XIV formed our party system is about the limit to which hopeless muddlement can go...", dated 26th August 1917, 11.5 x 18cm; a final letter to Oesterheld and Co., publishers in Berlin, dated 14th June 1927, regarding the address, "…to which all inquiries as to the completed translation of Strindberg's works into English should be directed…" (4)