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George Bernard Shaw

'Because you write very good verses he thinks he can, and sends me the most execrable balderdash chopped into lines without a ray of poetry or metric charm in them...Tell him my wastepaper basket is full enough without his contributions.'

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'Because you write very good verses he thinks he can, and sends me the most execrable balderdash chopped into lines without a ray of poetry or metric charm in them...Tell him my wastepaper basket is full enough without his contributions.'

Irish dramatist. TLS signed 'G. Bernard Shaw,' one page, 7 x 5.5, November 18, 1948. Scathing letter to a friend concerning his son's poetry. In full, 'Thanks for the picture: I enclose my own. You are losing the Hohenzollern touch, and becoming a typical dago. Will you remonstrate with your son. Because you write very good verses he thinks he can, and sends me the most execrable balderdash chopped into lines without a ray of poetry or metric charm in them. Except for this he seems a clever chap enough. Tell him my wastepaper basket is full enough without his contributions.' In fine condition, with a light shade of toning and a bisecting vertical fold. RRAuction COA.

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