Letters from Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Lyth, Post Office, Ayot St.Lawrence, to O.A.Forsyth-Major, about their George Bernard Shaw correspondence

Papers of Major OA Forsyth-Major > George Bernard Shaw > Letters from Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Lyth, Post Office, Ayot St.Lawrence, to O.A.Forsyth-Major, about their George Bernard Shaw correspondence

Reference No:: U DFM/7/14
Dates:: 10 Aug 1944-7 Nov 1950
Description:: a) From Mr. Lyth, offering to sell postcards as DFM/7/1,2 & 4, n.d.

b) From Mrs. Lyth, offering photographs of Shaw and Mrs. Shaw for sale, 10 August 1944

c) From Mr. Lyth, enclosing photographs of Shaw. Has letters and postcards of G.B.S for sale, 16 August 1944

d) From Mr. Lyth, offering to sell letters of Shaw, ordering stamps, and enclosing photographs of Mrs. Shaw, 23 August 1944

e) From Mr. Lyth, sending orders for stamps. Shaw in very best of health, 'clipping the hedge and the other day... He told me that 85,000 of his books had been sold', 16 October 1944

f) From Mr. Lyth, sending cards, 'I can get news for you of G.B.S', 14 November 1950

g) From Mr. Lyth, 'Prince White of the Daily Mail wrote the words pinned on the gate of G.B.S Corner'. Still has orders of stamps for sale. 'This is a very sad little village now, for we have lost a neighbourly kind old gentleman', 7 November 1950
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