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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
A one-page and a two-page autograph letter, signed; the first from Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, 30th October 1922, to Percy Hord of the Sunday Chronicle, informing him of an article that he would soon be receiving entitled: "The Election Issues & the Middle Class Electorate;" the other from the same address, 1st November 1922, to Hord, with instructions for the printer: "tell him that I do my own punctuation, and that if he has no colons, or has forgotten where they are, he had better send out for a fresh supply, as when I write a colon I mean a colon and not a semi-colon...Tell them both that the article is to appear exactly as it is written, and that if it doesn't, they will both be sacked;" together with an autograph compliments card, unsigned, from 10 Adelphi Terrace W.C.2, 9th April 1924, stating: "I presume you take the serial right for the Disunited Kingdom & that there is nothing doing in America." (3)
Provenance: Percy Hord, the vendor's grandfather.
A one-page and a two-page autograph letter, signed; the first from Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, 30th October 1922, to Percy Hord of the Sunday Chronicle, informing him of an article that he would soon be receiving entitled: "The Election Issues & the Middle Class Electorate;" the other from the same address, 1st November 1922, to Hord, with instructions for the printer: "tell him that I do my own punctuation, and that if he has no colons, or has forgotten where they are, he had better send out for a fresh supply, as when I write a colon I mean a colon and not a semi-colon...Tell them both that the article is to appear exactly as it is written, and that if it doesn't, they will both be sacked;" together with an autograph compliments card, unsigned, from 10 Adelphi Terrace W.C.2, 9th April 1924, stating: "I presume you take the serial right for the Disunited Kingdom & that there is nothing doing in America." (3)
Provenance: Percy Hord, the vendor's grandfather.