BIB_ID
314696
Accession number
MA 5041.2
Creator
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Display Date
1911 Sept. 4.
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 (2 p.) ; 26.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of three George Bernard Shaw letters, which is comprised of this letter, a 54-page letter to Henderson (3 January 1905) letter to which this relates, and another related letter. Items in the collection have been cataloged individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Courmayeur (Torino) Italy" and with his London addressed penned in parentheses above.
Written from "Courmayeur (Torino) Italy" and with his London addressed penned in parentheses above.
Provenance
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
Assessing Archibald Henderson's biography of Shaw, remarking that "All autobiographies prove, when carefully checked, that no man has an accurate knowledge of his own life, and that when an autobiography does not agree with a biography, the biography is probably right and the autobiography wrong." Saying that despite some small inaccuracies Henderson has done "extraordinarily well."
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