Collection Outline
II. Manuscripts And Miscellaneous Shaviana
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| Title | Harold C. Ackert Papers | |
| Identification: | WTU00001 | |
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The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and memorabilia relating to George Bernard Shaw. Correspondence, 1901 - 1928, includes 30 letters and cards to John Drinkwater. Also, autograph manuscript of speech, portraits of Shaw, and various personal artifacts.
68 items
2 boxes
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Ackert
ACCESSION: 1554, 1603
NUCMC: Sept 1983
September, 1982
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1/1-2. | I.1 Shaw Correspondence With John Drinkwater, (30 items.) | ||||||||||||
| Shaw's letter and cards to Drinkwater (British playwright and director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre) span from 1912: Nov. 2 to 1926: Dec. 31, and are concerned primarily with various pieces of theatre information: permission to produce plays, suggestions and comments on performers and performances, comments on manuscripts by Drinkwater. The correspondence consists of 11 letters, 18 cards and 1 enclosed letter. | |||||||||||||
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1/3. | I.2 Miscellaneous Shaw Correspondence, (20 items.) | ||||||||||||
| Shaw correspondence from 1901 - 1928. | |||||||||||||
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| DeCasseres, Benjamin, | |||||||||||||
| upbraids Shaw, 1928: June 21 | |||||||||||||
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| Shaw, George Bernard, | |||||||||||||
| To Carrol, Kathleen Fawcus, | |||||||||||||
| [card] advice on living, 1909: May 18 | |||||||||||||
| To Charrington, Charles, | |||||||||||||
| [card] publishing, money, 1902: May 21 | |||||||||||||
| To Fry, Roger, | |||||||||||||
| [card] refuses to undertake project requested of him, 1912: Feb. 11 | |||||||||||||
| To Jewett, Henry, | |||||||||||||
| censorship, changing of names in a play, 1919: Nov. 5 | |||||||||||||
| permission to produce play, 1921: June 27 | |||||||||||||
| Norman, C H., | |||||||||||||
| [card] regarding military inanity, 1922: April 21 | |||||||||||||
| To Renfron, H S., | |||||||||||||
| [note added to Renfron letter] refuses permission to republish parts of Shaw work, but notes that much would be done if anthology was respectable, 1919: Feb. 5 | |||||||||||||
| To Smith, A C., | |||||||||||||
| [card] Shaw's whereabouts, travel, 1901: April 6 | |||||||||||||
| To Strang, William, | |||||||||||||
| [card] regarding drawing of Shaw, 1906: July 14 | |||||||||||||
| To Titterton, W R., | |||||||||||||
| [card] refuses to write a piece for Titterton's paper, 1923: March 28 | |||||||||||||
| To Wise, William H. & Co., | |||||||||||||
| refuses to permit republication, plus newspaper clippings that Wise wished to reprint, with xerox of envelope. Original envelope tipped in Spec. HX 246 S 43 , 1928: May 10 1928 | |||||||||||||
| advises Wise to pay Author's League for copyrighted Shaw material to be included in anthology (without Shaw authorization), June 4 | |||||||||||||
| To Croll, Robert H., | |||||||||||||
| [card] response to Croll's earlier letter on McMahon's death and eulogy by Croll, 1941: Oct. 25 | |||||||||||||
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| ?, William of R. & R. Clark Limited, Publishers, | |||||||||||||
| advises Shaw on status of and autobiography and Odham's Complete Plays, 1948: May 28 | |||||||||||||
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1/4 | II.1 Shaw Manuscript Material, | ||||||||||||
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| Untitled speech AMs, 6 lined pages. Appeal for financial contributions to the King Edward Memorial Hospital. Includes not declaring abhorrence of “charity business.” Speech published by Washington University Libraries, under the title, “So He Took His Hat Round.”, 1981, | |||||||||||||
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| Questionnaire from The World of Trade, Frankfort, Germany. Typed questionnaire with autograph Shaw responses. Questions concern Germany's position in post-World War I world. Includes envelope in which the questionnaire was returned. , (1920: Feb 1) | |||||||||||||
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| Program for special meeting of Academy of Political Science in honor of George Bernard Shaw, at which Shaw gave an address. , 1933: April 11 | |||||||||||||
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| Shaw signature, clipped from envelope, | |||||||||||||
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| 1/5 | Draft of letter to editor of The New Statesman, Ts., moderate auto revision, signed, by Shaw. The letter takes issue with an article by “Lens”, which hails the effectiveness of typhoid vaccine and advocates its use. Original article by “Lens” (pseudonym for Caleb Williams Saleeby, 1878 -?, British physician and author), a regular columnist for The New Statesman, appeared in Nov. 18, 1916 issue. Shaw's response was published in that of Nov. 25, 1916., | ||||||||||||
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| Photocopies of published versians of Lens article and Shaw's letter accompany this item., (3pp. 1 item.) | |||||||||||||
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1/6-8 | II.2 Miscellaneous Shaviana, | ||||||||||||
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| 1/6 | Photo of Shaw, in frame, | ||||||||||||
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| 1/7 | Pencil drawing of Shaw by W R. Black, | ||||||||||||
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| Engraving of Shaw by Stephan Mrozewski. Signed by artist and by Shaw. , 1935. | |||||||||||||
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| 1/8 | Tearsheet from The New Leader, article " Where Darwin Is Taboo, The Bible in America" by G. Bernard Shaw. , 1925: July 10. | ||||||||||||
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| 2/- | Stamp box used by Shaw at Whitehall Court. Includes key and note by B. Patch, Shaw's secretary, | ||||||||||||
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| Silver desk tray for pencils, | |||||||||||||
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| Two paper knives, one from China. Includes note from B. Patch, | |||||||||||||
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| Scissors used by Shaw at Whitehall Court. Includes note from B. Patch, | |||||||||||||
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| Advertisement for “Mary Stuart,” [play] by Friedrich Schiller, American Theatre of St. Louis, | |||||||||||||
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