George Bernard Shaw letter of 1909 February 2 to the editor of The Times : manuscript copy

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unitid

{"value"=>"186093", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS 186093", "type"=>"local_call"}

origination

{"value"=>"Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"George Bernard Shaw letter of 1909 February 2 to the editor of The Times : manuscript copy"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"between circa 1909 and circa 1933", "type"=>"inclusive"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 item (2 pages)"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"23 x 18 cm + accompanying material"}]}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Originally thought to be in the hand of George Bernard Shaw</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>End date estimated from letterhead address on dealer's description</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

bibliography

{"value"=>"<p>The Shaw-Mallock letters are published in Bernard Shaw's Socialism and Superior Brains: A Reply to Mr. Mallock (Fabian Tract No. 146), London: Fabian Society, 1909</p>"}

acqinfo

{"method"=>"Gift", "source"=>"Jon Bresler", "date"=>"2022", "value"=>"<p>Gift, Jon Bresler, 2022</p>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"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"}

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1 item (2 pages) (23 x 18 cm + accompanying material)

prefercite

{"value"=>"George Bernard Shaw letter of 1909 February 2 to the editor of The Times : manuscript copy, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}

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