BIB_ID
232687
Accession number
MA 5041.1
Creator
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Display Date
1905 Jan. 3-17.
Credit line
Gift of George Hecksher, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th anniversary of the Association of Fellows, 1999.
Description
1 item (54 p.) ; 26.7 x 20.3 cm (some sheets smaller)
Notes
Written on letterhead embossed with Shaw's London address "10 Adelphi Terrace, London W.C." and "Address Telegrams to "Socialist London.""
Part of a collection of three George Bernard Shaw letters, which is comprised of this letter and two additional ones related to it. Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of three George Bernard Shaw letters, which is comprised of this letter and two additional ones related to it. Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Archibald Henderson; his sale (New York, Anderson Galleries, 1933); Francis Kettaneh (in his possession in 1947); sale (London, Christie's, 6 Dec. 1989, lot 324); gift of George Hecksher in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th anniversary of the Association of Fellows in 1999.
Summary
An extraordinary fifty-four page letter from Shaw to Henderson, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina University, who wished to write a biography of Shaw and solicited his help. In this letter, written over the course of two weeks in 1905, Shaw offers Henderson a witty summary of his life, saying that "a thorough biography of any man who is up to the chin in the life of his own time as I have been is worth writing as a historical document."
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