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"FOUR "SUPER-SELLERS"
"It is such a small thing, and yet when you come to think of it," said a friend to me, writes Mr
veritable Huntly Carter, "it is a eard of gold." He held up a post card, five and a half inches by three and a half, on which were written, in a small, clear, careful handwriting, a few words and the initials G.B.S.
"Do you know," he continued, "ljat a similar card fetched £25 not long age." "That I said, "works out at about £6 an inch.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister of Vice-President Charles Curtis, whose ranking in the Washington diplomatic set has been causing an upheaval in Washington.
This must be the time for holders of Shaw stock to dispose of some
of the handwriting of their super- hero.
"It was hot from the mint;" he observed. "What must some of the old 'uns be worth?"
I smiled, for locked away in a safe place are some of the old ones, written in Shaw's most vigorous time when he did not style at a mince his words. Among them is one that tells me in lively terms the Great that I have outwitted Man by causing him to support a new Labour organisation which he habes,
Master of Insult
There is another that tells me sharply that I am a master of sar castic insult, and that I hold the Shaw record of having insulted more successfully and often than on earth. Underneath any. person this outburst is my pencilled reply: "Dear Shaw, You ought to be proud of sq apt a pupil." And there is the precious bit of handwriting at the conclusion of a Shaw ma nuscript telling me that I de serve to die in the workhouse. "There is plenty of hope," I replied. "Shaw is the new type of alehe. mist," I observed. "How he trans- mutes postcards into gold."
"Why not find out what your holdings of Shaw stock are worth" came the suggestion. "And while you are about it you might find out what ae imperishable hand- writing of other famous scribes is worth." My thoughts turned to the great pile of correspondence which I have received from famous. people during the past twenty years.
was no
I sought permission to sell Shaw's handwriting, and received a con-
There ditional assent.. objection to my selling provided I sold to one man only. It sounded as though some one was making a
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1 went to talk to him about the present price of hero worship. wanted to obtain answers to two questions. Whose handwriting he was buying and whose fetched the most to-day?
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"You are a private collector," 1 began. He dismissed the question scornfully.. He was a big dealer in written manuscripts.
feet and his mouth. There must out to buy all. the Shaws on earth. be millions about. Have you bought
"I can re- "All?" I queried.
many?" He threw up his hands. member the time when Shaw wrote postcards with both hands and both "Many! I've got three ships full." He glanced towards a side room, and immediately, in imagination, I saw an Aladdin's Cave.
Deer Permit Petting
Round of Bantt, Alberta, a This photograph in rubmitted by W. E. evidence of what protection does, in the wag of overcoming timidity: These dear, "bative to Banff National Park, will use either back door or front when visiting and now have so much misguided confidence in humanity that they allow themselves to be petted.
"I'll Buy All the Shaws" "Shaw ja the saleable Super- man?" I suggested. The Super-! man," he corrected, sharply. "T 'buy all the Shaws you've got."
"What about the letters of other supermen?" I asked. I took out al bundle of letters and read the alg-| natures rapidly-H. G. "Wells, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and many more. He swept them aside with indifference. I handed him a blank sheet of paper, "Write down," I said, "the names of the celebrated people whose handwriting you are buy- ing"
He wrote down four names.
I glanced at the list-Shaw, Barrie, Kipling, Hardy,
"Is that all?" I said, with sur prise. "That's all, he replied.
"They are the four super- sellers?" I observed. He nodded.
Last Minute Interview "What about your Shaw letters and postcards?" he inquired, "I bave not brought them," I said. "You gave me a last-minute in terview."...
Is there hope that you will bring them when I return to London?", he asked...
Possibly."
But I have thought things over since. I shall stick to the first editions of famous handwritings in my possession. When I die I shall take Shaw's golden postcards with me, and paper: Heaven with them.
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