![SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Extensive autograph additions, emendations and cancellations, amounting to a thorough rewriting, to the typescript of an 'Interview with George Bernard Shaw' by Leonard Henslowe, n.p. [London], n.d. [March 1907], the additions comprising approximately 88 lines in autograph, 13 leaves, 4to (wear to margins of centrefolds, occasionally affecting text, repaired with tape, the leaves supported on verso and some margins with card); [and] autograph postcard signed to Henslowe, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London, 20 March 1907 (slightly yellowed); mounted in an album, blue morocco (extremities rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CKS/2001_CKS_06456_0040_000(030309).jpg?w=1)
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SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Extensive autograph additions, emendations and cancellations, amounting to a thorough rewriting, to the typescript of an 'Interview with George Bernard Shaw' by Leonard Henslowe, n.p. [London], n.d. [March 1907], the additions comprising approximately 88 lines in autograph, 13 leaves, 4to (wear to margins of centrefolds, occasionally affecting text, repaired with tape, the leaves supported on verso and some margins with card); [and] autograph postcard signed to Henslowe, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London, 20 March 1907 (slightly yellowed); mounted in an album, blue morocco (extremities rubbed).
Shaw refashions an interview, giving his idiosyncratic opinions on health and diet. Shaw's revisions, to an article intended for the American edition of Good Housekeeping, range from giving a more accurate and pointed description of his house in Adelphi Terrace to the insertion of fresh paragraphs (including prompts for the interviewer) concerning the benefits of a vegetarian diet, his longevity, good health and working habits, his distaste for alcohol and tobacco (attributing its popularity to the effects of capitalism), and the dangers of the age of forty for a hardworking man: his alterations are variously revealing (amending a description of his accent as 'slightly Irish' to 'unmistakeably Irish'), point-scoring (inserting an allegation that he eats oysters in private in order to rebut it) and characteristically didactic. Shaw cancels 4½ pages of the original typescript which give his views on cleanliness and ideal clothing, particularly for women; the accompanying autograph postcard comments on this: 'I positively bar any allusion whatever to dress ... you have just enough fresh meat without any rechauffée'.
Shaw refashions an interview, giving his idiosyncratic opinions on health and diet. Shaw's revisions, to an article intended for the American edition of Good Housekeeping, range from giving a more accurate and pointed description of his house in Adelphi Terrace to the insertion of fresh paragraphs (including prompts for the interviewer) concerning the benefits of a vegetarian diet, his longevity, good health and working habits, his distaste for alcohol and tobacco (attributing its popularity to the effects of capitalism), and the dangers of the age of forty for a hardworking man: his alterations are variously revealing (amending a description of his accent as 'slightly Irish' to 'unmistakeably Irish'), point-scoring (inserting an allegation that he eats oysters in private in order to rebut it) and characteristically didactic. Shaw cancels 4½ pages of the original typescript which give his views on cleanliness and ideal clothing, particularly for women; the accompanying autograph postcard comments on this: 'I positively bar any allusion whatever to dress ... you have just enough fresh meat without any rechauffée'.
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