BIB_ID
314699
Accession number
MA 5041.3
Creator
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Display Date
1944 Oct. 9.
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 (1 p.) ; 31 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 "Ayot Saint Lawrence" on the Anderson Galleries folder which originally enclosed Shaw's letter to Archibald Henderson (Welwyn, 3 January 1905, MA 5041.1). The folder is marked "G. Bernard Shaw's Autobiography."
Written from "Ayot Saint Lawrence" on the Anderson Galleries folder which originally enclosed Shaw's letter to Archibald Henderson (Welwyn, 3 January 1905, MA 5041.1). The folder is marked "G. Bernard Shaw's Autobiography."
Provenance
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
Stating "There is no such book in existence as Bernard Shaw's Autobiography, or ever has been," but remarking that he is in the process of preparing a collection of autobiographic sketches.
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