Finding Aid for the Kenneth MacKenna Collection of Material About George Bernard Shaw LSC.0670
Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Alight Tsai and Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2002.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Business Number: 310-825-4988
Fax Number: 310-206-1864
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Kenneth MacKenna collection of material about George Bernard Shaw
Creator:
MacKenna, Kenneth
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0670
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Physical Description:
1 folders
Date (inclusive): 1885-1949
Abstract: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) started his writing career ca. 1876 and went on to become a playwright, wit, and critic. He
won the Nobel Prize for literature (1925) for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire
often being infused with a singular poetic beauty... He was also known as an advocate of social reform. The collection consists
of manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, ephemera, and art objects by, or relating to, George Bernard Shaw.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Kenneth MacKenna Collection of Material About George Bernard Shaw (Collection 670). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mr. Kenneth MacKenna, 1956 and 1959.
Processing Information
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating
existing description of our materials that contains language
that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they
could be described more accurately, by filling out the form
located on our website:
Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special
Collections.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
George Bernard Shaw was born July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland; attended Wesleyan Connexional School; he started his writing
career ca. 1876 and went on to become a playwright, wit, and critic; known as an advocate of social reform, he co-founded
the Fabian Society (1884); vestryman and borough councilor in London in the late 1880s; Nobel Prize for literature, 1925;
among his plays are:
Heartbreak house (1920),
Man and superman (1905),
Back to Methuselah (1922), and
Saint Joan (1923); his plays adapted to film include
Pygmalion (1938) and
Caesar and Cleopatra (1946); books include
The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism (1928) and
Everybody's political what's what (1944); he died November 2, 1950.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, ephemera, and art objects by or relating to George Bernard
Shaw.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Dramatists, Irish -- 20th century.
Authors, Irish -- 19th century.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
box 1
2.
Beethoven Broadcast by Bernard Shaw. (?). Published:
Radio Times, March 1927 with slight alterations.
1927
General Physical Description note: Typescript carbon copy with corrections and alterations in Shaw's handwriting in ink. 6pp.
box 1
3.
Caesar and Cleopatra. Prologue (as adapted for the Polish stage) (?).
1928
General Physical Description note: Typescript in English and Polish. 5 and 6pp.
Scope and Contents note
At top of English version holograph note by G.B. Shaw, Prologue written for the Forbes Robertson's farewell performance at
Drury Lane and used at Barry Jackson's revival. Adopted to Polish history for the 1928 production by Arnold Szyfmen in Warsaw.
Signed. Polish translation signed by Floryan Sobieniowski. Leather slip case.
box 1
4.
Camera Work, no.14. , and
Camera Work, no.42/43.
1906 1913.
Scope and Contents note
Contains: G. Bernard Shaw on the London exhibitions, reprinted from the
Amateur Photographer, October 1901.
With dedication from Alfred Stieglitz to G.B. Shaw and penciled corrections in the margin.
box 1
5.
Candida.
(1893).
General Physical Description note: Typescript of play with holograph corrections used during rehearsals of original production. In 3 parts with part of Morel.
4 parts, in slip cover. 27pp., 25pp., 20pp. (incomplete) 10pp.
General note
On title page: Janet Achurch Carrington... given to me by G.B.S., March 14, 1893. Mounted on silk, in slipcase.
Carrington, Janet Achurch
General note
See: Candida.
box 1
6.
Draft Manifesto submitted to the section by Bernard Shaw. The International Socialist Bureau (British Section)
3rd September 1915.
General Physical Description note: 11pp.
General note
At head of title page in print Strictly private and confidential. Title page has 8 line holograph notation by G.B. Shaw.
box 3
7.
Dufferin and Ave, Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902. Speeches delivered in India. London
1890.
General note
Copy from Shaw's library with his signature, dated September 24th, 1890. 2 line note in Shaw's handwriting on title page
box 3
Emery, (Mrs.) Polloc.
1875- .
General note
See: John Bull's other Island.
See: Press Cuttings, London, 1909.
box 3
Galton, Frank Wallis.
1869- .
General note
See: Metropolitan Borough Council Election.
International Socialist Bureau (British section). Draft Manifesto submitted... by Bernard Shaw.
General note
See: Draft Manifesto.
box 2
9. [Irish Co-operation]. The muddle over the Irish grant.
General Physical Description note: Holograph manuscript foolscap. 2pp.
Scope and Contents note
Together with printed article as it appeared in
The New Statesman, April 12, 1913.
Levy, J.H.
General note
See:
Mrs. Warren's profession.
London reform union leaflet.
General note
See: Metropolitan Borough Council Elections
box 2
11.
Manifesto of English Socialists. Title page written on by Shaw in holograph. explaining how the manifesto came to be written. Approximately 15 lines in holograph.
May 1st, 1893.
General Physical Description note: 8pp. wrappers. 8pp. printed pamphlet, original wrappers.
Scope and Contents note
This wretched affair was the result of a conference at William Morris's house at Hammersmith, lasting through several evenings,
at which he attempted the hopeless task of reconciling Hyndman's policy with mine... etc.
box 2
12. Metropolitan Borough Council elections. Polling Day, Monday, November 2nd, 8am to 8pm.
1903.
- Progress, not politics. A word to women electors about the Boroough Councils. 4pp. Progressive leaflet no.7.
- Ten reasons why women should support the progressives at the Borough Council Elections Holograph manuscript by G.B. Shaw.
6pp.
- Galton, Frank Wallis:
The London reform. Union Leaflet.
- Mr. Shaw's skit thereon (Memorandum by F.W. Galton), July 20, 1931. 1p. typescript, signed.
Muddle over the Irish grant.
General note
See: [Irish Co-operation].
box 2
14. Norman, Clarence Henry, defendant.
Scope and Contents note
Proceedings of a District Court Martial held on the 30th day of June 1916 by order of Major General Sir F. Lloyd, K.C.B.,
G.V.O, D.S.O.,... Trial of no.25801 Private Clarence Henry Norman, 5th (R) Bn. Grenadier Guards... 34 leaves, printed and
typed. (together) with holograph letter from G.B.S to My dear Norman regarding trial, dated August 19th, 1916 and letter of
December 1934 from Offices of Simon & Schuster, publishers, New York.
re K. McKenna
re possible publication of this item.
box 2
15.
Plays, pleasant and unpleasant [Prospectus].
General Physical Description note: Typescript with holograph corrections, 4pp.
General note
At top of sheet 9 Henrietta St., Covent Garden, London, W.C.
Sobeniowski, Floryan
General note
See: Caesar and Cleopatra.
See:
Intelligent Woman's guide to socialism and capitalism.
Stieglitz, Alfred
General note
See:
Camera work.
box 2
Ten reasons why women should support...
General note
See: Metropolitan Borough council elections.
box 2
To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Dublin... 17
November 28th, 1912.
General Physical Description note: Galley proof, 1p.
Scope and Contents note
A letter concerning the providing of a suitable gallery for the Sir Hugh Lane Collection of Works of art.
General note
Not recorded in the bibliography of Shaw. Only a few copies were taken for the purpose of circulating others interested in
the matter.
box 2
18.
Tolstoy: Tragedian or Comedian. Published: London Mercury. Copyright: International Magazine Company, New York.
1921.
General Physical Description note: Galley proofs with holograph corrections. 2pp.
box 2
19.
War issues for Irishmen. London.
1918.
General Physical Description note: 1 signature only, rough proof copy.
box 2
21. Letters, post-cards and autographed ephemera.
1901- .
General Physical Description note: 15 pieces, 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Letters to P.P. Howe, 1911; Leigh Lovel, 1915; Willard Houghland, 1934. Form-cards
re forthcoming publications, cancelled check etc.
box 2
Ephemera in printed form. 22
n.d., 1942.
General Physical Description note: 9 pieces, 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Contains such pieces as Bernard Shaw on capital punishment, Dreiser's statement to the Writers' War Board, 1942 concerning
his position on war and capitalism, and Shaw on Dreiser, reprinted from PM, 1942. Playbill of Royal Court Theatre, April 9,
1904 for performance of
Candida, A note to Androcles and the Lion for the New York production, 1915 etc.
General note
1 piece gift of Dr. Jacob Schwartz.
box 2
23. Clippings.
v.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder.
box 2
24. Portraits, photos.
General Physical Description note: 11 pieces, 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
Photo of J. Epstein's bust of Shaw, 2 photos of L. Knight's oil portrait, clipped caricature of Shaw and Ellen Terry by W.
Cotton.
box 2
25. Material
re Kenneth MacKenna's collecting activities.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder, 13 items.
box 3
26. Bust, caricature of G.B. Shaw in wood.
General Physical Description note: 25cm.
box 3
27. Wire caricature by Ted Weidhaas.
General Physical Description note: 22cm.
Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent, 1872-1898. Poster for Arms and the Man. 28
General Physical Description note: Black and white. 50 × 70 cm.
General note
Stored in map-room with oversized catalogued material.
box 2
Shaw, George Bernard. Spoken English & broken English. London: Linguaphone Institute. 29
[1928?].
General Physical Description note: 12pp., wrappers.
box 2
30. Shaw, George Bernard. Pamphlets.
General Physical Description note: (7 items).
box 2
1.
Socialism for millionaires. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius.
n.d.
box 2
2. Epigrams. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius.
n.d.
box 2
3.
The unprotected child and the law. London: The Six Point Group.
n.d.
box 2
4.
The League of Nations. London: Fabian Society.
January 1929.
General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
box 2
5.
Socialism and superior brains: a reply to Mr. Mallock. London: Fabian Society.
November 1909.
box 2
6. Troubetskoy,
Prince Paul. Sculpture. With a word by Bernard Shaw. London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Company.
December 1931.
box 2
7. Lloyd, Henry J.
Trade unionism for clerks.
[1919].
Scope and Contents note
By... and R.E. Scouller. With introductions by The Rt. Hon. J.R. Clynes and G. Bernard Shaw. London: Cecil Palmer and Hayward.
box 2
31. Henderson, Archibald.
George Bernard Shaw. Man of the century. Washington: Reference Department, Library of Congress.
1957.
box 2
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950. Letters to Howard Von Hardenburg Inches. Ayot Saint Lawrence. 32
1947-1949.
General Physical Description note: 6 items. Holograph and typescript. These letters have all been laminated.
- Accompanying the letter of January 8, 1948, is a signed photograph of Shaw.
-
Also: 1 letter to Inches from Shaw's housekeeper, December 1, 1948.
General note
Gift of Howard V.H. Inches, June 1962.