SHAW: THE PAPERS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
from the British Library, London
Part 1: Plays, Poems, Novels and Short Stories
REEL 1
Plays of George Bernard Shaw
Add Ms 50593 Passion Play 1878
Add Ms 50594 Widowers’ Houses 1884
Add Ms 50595 A The Cassone 1889-1890
Add Ms 50595 B The Cassone. Typescript 1889-1890
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Add Ms 50596 A-G The Philanderer 1892-1893
Add Ms 50597 The Philanderer. Published copy with
autograph rehearsal notes 1906
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Add Ms 50598 A-C Mrs Warren’s Profession 1893
Add Ms 50599 Mrs Warren’s Profession. Proofs for the Collected
Edition of the Works of
Bernard Shaw(Vol 7 1930)
Due to its condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following manuscript.
Add Ms 50600 Plays; Pleasant and Unpleasant (Vol 1) 1900
Add Ms 50601 A-C Arms and the Man 1893
Add Ms 50602 Arms and the Man. Published copy with autograph
Rehearsal notes 1905
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Add Ms 50603 A-C Candida 1894
Add Ms 50604 A Man of Destiny 1895
Add Ms 50605 A-C You never can tell 1895
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Add Ms 50606 A The Devil’s Disciple. Scenario: mainly shorthand 1896-1897
Add Ms 50606 B-D The Devil’s Disciple. Playscript 1896-1897
Due to its condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following manuscript
Add Ms 50607 The Devil’s Disciple. Producer’s copy,
Queen’s Theatre 1907
Add Ms 50608 The Gadfly or, the Son of the Cardinal. Typescript 1898
Add Ms 50609 A-D Caesar and Cleopatra 1898
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Add Ms 50610 Caesar and Cleopatra 1899, 1912,
1930, 1926,
1944-1945
Due to its condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following manuscript.
Add Ms 50611 Caesar and Cleopatra Published copy with
autographed rehearsal notes 1904
Add Ms 50612 A-C Captain Brassbound’s
Conversion 1899
Due to its condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following manuscript.
Add Ms 50613 The Admirable Bashville. Prompt Book for Stage
Society performances.
Typescript with some
autograph rehearsal notes 1903
Add Ms 50614 How he lied to her husband 1904
Add Ms 50615 John Bull’s Other Island. Instructions to the Producer 1904
Preface to the Home Rule
Edition. Shorthand, typescript
and printed with autograph
revisions 1912
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Add Ms 50616 A-E Major Barbara 1905
Add Ms 50617 Major Barbara. Filmscript 1940-1941
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Add Ms 50618 Major Barbara. Screen version prepared
for publication c1945
Add Ms 50619 A-D The Doctor’s Dilemma 1906
Add Ms 50620 The Doctor’s Dilemma. Draft film script
Typescript nd
Due to their condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following two manuscripts.
Add Ms 50621 Getting Married 1908
Add Ms 50622 The Shewing up of Blanco
Posnet 1909
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Add Ms 50623 Press Cuttings
Typescript with manuscript
additions and corrections
in another hand 1909?
Due to its condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following manuscript.
Add Ms 50624 Misalliance 1909
Add Ms 50625 The Glimpse of Reality. Shorthand and incomplete 1910
Add Ms 50626 The Dark Lady of the Sonnets 1914.
Printed proof with autograph
corrections and additions.
Poem, The Dark Lady Printed proof with unidentified
amendments 1934
Add Ms 50627 Androcles and the Lion. Film scenario. Typescript 1950
Add Ms 50628 Pygmalion Preface. Typescript draft with
autograph amendments
and shorthand 1916
Film scenario 1934
Add Ms 50629 Pygmalion. Performing copy.
Printed with autograph
rehearsal notes 1913
Add Ms 50630 Annajanska: the Wild
Grand Duchess.
Typescript with autograph
corrections 1917
Add Ms 50631 Back to Methuselah 1919-1945
Due to its condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following manuscript.
Add Ms 50632 Back to Methuselah. Printed edition
with autograph amendments
for the 1928 revival 1927-1928
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Add Ms 50633 St Joan 1923-1948, nd
Add Ms 50634 St Joan. Typescript with manuscript
alterations in
unidentified hands 1934?
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Add Ms 50635 Too True to be Good. Shorthand and typescript
with autograph corrections 1931
Add Ms 50636 Too True to be Good. Printed rough proof with
autograph corrections 1931
Add Ms 50637 The Simpleton (of the
Unexpected Isles). Printed proofs with
autograph corrections 1934
Add Ms 50638 The Millionairess 1934-1942
Add Ms 50639 The Millionairess. Printed rehearsal copy of
1940 with autograph
revisions for
BBC production 1942
Due to its condition permission was not granted for the microfilming of the following manuscript.
Add Ms 50640 Geneva. Printed rehearsal copy of
1938 revised
in Mrs Shaw’s hand 1938
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Add Ms 50641 Buoyant Billions 1936-1949
Add Ms 50642 Farfetched Fables 1948
Add Ms 50643A Arms and the Man. Make-up volume 1923-1945
Add Ms 50643B The Devil’s Disciple. Make-up volume 1939
Add Ms 50643C Man and Superman. Make-up volume 1902
Add Ms 50643D Passion, Poison and
Petrifaction, or the Fatal
Gasolene.
Make-up volume 1905
Add Ms 50643E The Doctor’s Dilemma. Make-up volume 1910
Add Ms 50643F The Inauguration Speech:
An Interlude. Make-up volume 1907
Add Ms 50643G Getting Married. Make-up volume 1910
Add Ms 50643H The Shewing-up
of Blanco Posnet. Make-up volume 1909
Add Ms 50643I Winifred. Make-up volume 1909
Add Ms 50643J Scenario for G K Chesterton 1909
Add Ms 50643K Misalliance. Make-up volume 1910?
Add Ms 50643L Sketches by J M Barrie.
Make-up volume 1914
Add Ms 50643M Glastonbury Gag. Make-up volume 1916
Add Ms 50643N Jitta’s Atonement. Make-up volume 1923?
Add Ms 50643O On the Rocks. Make-up volume 1933?
Add Ms 50643P Geneva. Make-up volume 1938, 1939
Add Ms 50643Q Miscellany. Make-up volume nd
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Add Ms 50644 Rehearsal Notes
Various plays 1911-1937
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Add Ms 50645-48 Rehearsal Notes
Various plays 1911-1937
Add Ms 50649 Notebook containing lists
of theatrical companies
permitted to perform Shaw’s
plays 1915-1925
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Poems, Novels and Short Stories
Add Ms 50650 Poems, epigrams and
Notes on novels 1883-1946, nd
Add Ms 50651 Immaturity. Preface 1930
Add Ms 50652 Immaturity. Books I-II 1930
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Add Ms 50653 Immaturity. Books III-IV 1930
Add Ms 50654 The Irrational Knot 1905
Add Ms 50655A, B Cashel Byron’s Profession 1882-1883
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Add Ms 50656 An Unsocial Socialist 1883
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Add Ms 50657 Unfinished novel nd
Add Ms 50658 Short stories 1885-1937
Add Ms 45923 St Joan 1923
Add Ms 48201 Why She Would Not:
A Little Comedy 1950
Add Ms 59901 Heartbreak House 1917
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Miscellanea
Add Ms 63179 More Common Sense
about the War 1915
Add Ms 63180 More Common Sense
about the War 1915
Add Ms 63181 Diary of Bernard Shaw 1917
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Add Ms 63182 Notes for St Joan nd.
Notebook 1950.
The Limitation Conference II:
After you, sir 1921?
Printed proofs and articles 1888-1948
Add Ms 63183 Miscellaneous notes, printed
ephemera etc 1895-1947
Add Ms 63184 Corrected worksheets in
Shaw’s hand 1924, 1928
Add Ms 63185 French translation of
Mrs Warren’s Profession nd
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Add Ms 63186 Miscellaneous
Correspondence 1905-1949
Add Ms 63187 Accounts, letters etc
relating to the tenancy
of a flat 1934-1943, nd
Add Ms 63728 Miscellaneous letters
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