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Bernard Shaw, born George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish writer of novels, plays, poems, short stories, and literary criticism. The item is a manuscript copy of George Bernard Shaw's letter to the editor of The Times of London, dated February 2, 1909, published on February 5, 1909. Shaw responds to a letter published in The Times on January 29, 1909 by English writer H.W. Mallock. Mallock had criticized remarks on income inequality made by Keir Hardie, M.P. at a Labour Party conference in Portsmouth, England on January 27th, as reported by the press. Shaw defended Hardie and questioned Mallock's knowledge of socialism and political economy in general, initiating an exchange of letters in the newspapers. The manuscript, in an unknown hand, is accompanied by an undated typed transcript of the item (3 pages), and a small half-tone photographic portrait of Shaw less

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and polemicist. · To Maud Russell Lorraine ("Emarel") Freshel, designer and vegetarian activist : 1 autograph presentation inscription signed : [1928, before June] : (S'ANA 1101) : in ink, on the half-title of a first edition copy of Shaw's Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism; reads in full, "to Emeral [sic] / from G.B.S." Shelved as *Pforz BT (Shaw, B.) 01. less