Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Bab, Julius, 1880-1955.
2. Charrington, Charles.
3. Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957.
4. Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), 1883-
5. Farleigh, John, 1900-
6. Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.
7. Moore, George, 1852-1933.
8. Salt, Henry S., 1851-1939.
9. Sobieniowski, Floryan.
10. Trebitsch, Siegfried, 1869-1956.
11. Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939.
12. Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969.
13. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
14. Archibald Constable & Co.
15. Jonathan Cape (Firm)
16. R. & R. Clark (Firm)
17. American Play Company. fmo

Description

1. 1,277 items.

Summary

1. This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts by and about the author, corrspondence by and about the author, two forgeries of correspondence, a notebook for 1890 through 1892, a commonplace book for the years 1930 through 1940, portraits, and pictorial works.

Subject

1. Forgeries
2. Correspondence
3. Commonplace books
4. Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 > Portraits
5. Notebooks

Genre/Form

1. Commonplace books.
2. Correspondence.
3. Forgeries.
4. Notebooks.

Call number

1. Berg Coll MSS Shaw

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Biography (note)

1. Bernard Shaw, born George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish writer of novels, plays, poems, short stories, and literary criticism.

Language (note)

1. One letter in French, another in German.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

1. This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg. There are also materials from Frank Fletcher, Lady Gregory, Earl Mesnier, Floryan Sobieniowski, John Lehmann's correspondence, Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence, from the Benjamin R. Tucker Collection, and from the files of the American Play Co. One item was a gift of Dan H. Laurence and another was a gift of Jane Sommerich in memory of Otto C. Sommerich. The holograph written below a caricature "Debate between Bernard Shaw and Hilaire Belloc" by Will Dyson is inscribed "to the Berg Collection from Elsa Shelley and Irving Kaye Davis."

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

Title

1. Bernard Shaw collection of papers, 1873-1960 bulk (1889-1950).

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

1. Bernard Shaw, born George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish writer of novels, plays, poems, short stories, and literary criticism.

Language

1. One letter in French, another in German.

Provenance

1. This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials is from W. T. H. Howe, Owen D. Young, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg. There are also materials from Frank Fletcher, Lady Gregory, Earl Mesnier, Floryan Sobieniowski, John Lehmann's correspondence, Sir Edward Howard Marsh's correspondence, from the Benjamin R. Tucker Collection, and from the files of the American Play Co. One item was a gift of Dan H. Laurence and another was a gift of Jane Sommerich in memory of Otto C. Sommerich. The holograph written below a caricature "Debate between Bernard Shaw and Hilaire Belloc" by Will Dyson is inscribed "to the Berg Collection from Elsa Shelley and Irving Kaye Davis."

Indexes

1. Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local note

1. Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Bab, Julius, 1880-1955.
2. Charrington, Charles.
3. Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957.
4. Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer), 1883-
5. Farleigh, John, 1900-
6. Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.
7. Moore, George, 1852-1933.
8. Salt, Henry S., 1851-1939.
9. Sobieniowski, Floryan.
10. Trebitsch, Siegfried, 1869-1956.
11. Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939.
12. Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969.
13. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
14. Berg, Albert Ashton, 1872-1950. Former owner
15. Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938. Former owner
16. Fletcher, Frank, 1870-1954. Former owner
17. Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932. Former owner
18. Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner
19. Lehmann, John, 1907-1987. Former owner
20. Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953. Former owner
21. Sobieniowski, Floryan. Former owner
22. Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939. Former owner
23. Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner
24. Davis, Irving Kaye. Donor
25. Laurence, Dan H. Donor
26. Sommerich, Jane. Donor
27. Shelley, Elsa. Donor
28. Archibald Constable & Co.
29. Jonathan Cape (Firm)
30. R. & R. Clark (Firm)
31. American Play Company. Former owner

Research call number

1. Berg Coll MSS Shaw