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ROBINSON, EDWARD ARLINGTON. Two Autograph Letters Signed,
“E.A.Robinson,” to civil rights leader Arthur B. Spingarn. The first, returning surplus
copies of a Boston publication. The second, sending a manuscript of another writer’s
poem,“The Promise” [not present]. Each 1 page, 8vo; horizontal fold. Each with the origi-
nal envelope.
Boston, 12 May 1925; 26 May 1934
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD.Typed Letter Signed, “G. Bernard Shaw,” to Nora
Charrington Martin (“Mrs. Charrington Martin”), concerning the publication and posses-
sion of letters written by Shaw to actor Charles Charrington. 1 page, 4to, personal
stationery; remnants of prior mounting at all corners recto, folds. (MRS)
London, 22 March 1929
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. . . [T]he letters. . . . belong to Mr. Gabriel Wells, who paid, I suppose, a handsome price for
them. How is it that he did not pay it to you?When Charles died they must have passed into
your possession; and if he left everything to you they must have become your property. Is it pos-
sible that you threw them away or sold them as waste paper, not knowing their value? If so, I
am afraid there is no remedy . . . .”
The letters in question are likely those housed in theT.E. Henley collection at the University of
Texas, which were copied by Gabriel Wells and a selection of them published in Lawrence’s
Bernard Shaw. Collected Letters 1874-1897
, NewYork, 1965.
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