Shaw (George Bernard, playwright and polemicist, 1856-1950) Collection of Letters signed and Postcards signed to Herbert Marshall, comprising: 3 Typed Letters signed, 1 Autograph note scrawled on a letter from Marshall, 5 Autograph Postcards signed & 3 envelopes addressed to Marshall, together 9 sides of text, signed in full or GBS, v.s., v.d., 19th July 1940 - 14th January 1948, on a variety of subjects relating to theatre and film, including: "suggesting that the Polish playwright Michal Choromanski could provide Marshall "with a successor to Thunder Rock"; "Very Private Indeed... giving his frank opinion of Marshall's production of Thunder Rock and of Michael Redgrave's performance, "... I could not but admire the desperate ingenuity with which you have exercised every producer's trick to persuade the audience that the play is Hamlet and Faust rolled into one, instead of being a very American budget of the pessimistic commonplaces of the eighteen-seventies compèred by an unfortunate actor who has to pretend that he is a leading tragedian when he has absolutely no part at all, bar that of compère. The success of your attempt to keep the audience listening to those two appalling bores... stamps you as one of the great producers of the age. But the show must not be given away; so let this be a dead secret between us..." [printed in Bernard Shaw Theatrics: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, ed. Dan. H. Laurence, 1995, pp. 210-211, no. 155], and blankly refusing Marshall's request to make an introduction to a Soviet film, "No damn it, I write the play; I don't bang the drum outside the booth. WALK UP BY BERNARD SHAW. How would that look? No, Herbert, no..." etc.; and 2 others, one an autograph letter by Shaw's "authorised bibliographer and remembrancer", Dr Fritz Erwin Loewenstein, explaining that Shaw is too busy with "Pascal and big money" to be involved with Citizens Films but that "he will always be interested in less sordid enterprises"; and a TLs by Blanche Patch (Shaw's secretary), providing Gabriel Pascal's address in England and saying that Shaw knows all about Marshall's "Russian apprenticeship and sets great sore by it", fold (14 pieces).

⁂ Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (1890-1966), actor.