GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
Autograph postcard, signed with initials 'G.B.S.', marked 'Very Private', from 29 Fitzroy Square, 23 May 1898, 12°, to Max Hecht, regarding marriage, 'If ever I get married, it will have to be done very secretly, because I have a great many friends who would make a fuss, and who would spend money which they cannot afford in giving me things which I don't want. I hate presents.' (slightly smudged).
Autograph photographic portrait postcard, signed 'G. Bernard Shaw', postmark dated 15 October 1924, to Mrs Hecht, with the inscription 'See how pleased I look!' (image with slight blooming in background).
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Provenance

Max Hecht (1861-1908) and thence by descent.

Lot Essay

Shaw met his wife, Charlotte Payne-Townshend, through Beatrice and Sidney Webb at their rectory at Stratford St. Andrew in 1895. They married on 1st June 1898, a week after this card was written. Despite wanting to keep it secret, Shaw drafted an amusing account of the registry office marriage for The Star which attracted much press interest.

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