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    Literary legacy

    Mar 05, 2020 3 minutes

    In 1945, playwright Bernard Shaw sent a postcard to the Society of Authors.

    ‘The time has come (I am nearly ninety),’ it read, ‘when I must hand over the management of my literary and theatre to some permanent agency… You intimated some time ago that [the Society of Authors] is game for the job. On what terms?’

    A deal was done and, after his papers had been passed to us, we received another postcard from Shaw’s Corner: ‘Act as if I were dead, as I soon shall be.’

    Bernard Shaw’s is one

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