SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature

SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature

SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A good A.L.S., with his initials GBS, on one side of a correspondence card, Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 21st February 1923, to Kenneth Richmond in Cornwall. Shaw writes, in full, 'Hampstead is the most hopelessly Philistine suburb in England. Nothing artistic ever succeeds there. No inhabitant has ever been known to cross the threshold of the Everyman Theatre, except Elgar; and he no longer lives there'. Hand addressed by Shaw to the verso. One very slight, minor crease, otherwise VG

 Edward Elgar (1857-1934) English Composer who lived in Hampstead from 1912-20.