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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Archibald Henderson Collection of George Bernard Shaw #12032, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Archibald Henderson beginning in 1948 (Acc. 103761).

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This summary description was created in December 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Hart, December 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Authors and theater.
• Fabian Society (Great Britain).
• Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
• Theater--Great Britian--History--20th century.
• Theater--History and criticism.

• Bernard Shaw Papers (03516), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library.

Archibald Henderson (1877-1963) was an author, biographer of British playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw, and professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Published works of Irish playwright, theater critic, and polemicist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and Shaviana collected by white professor of mathematics and Shaw biographer Archibald Henderson (1877-1963) in the early twentieth century. Published items include first and other editions of Shaw's novels, plays, and writings on art, music, and literature, some of which Shaw signed with inscriptions to Henderson; political pamphlets; tracts disseminated by the Fabian Society, a British socialist organization founded by Shaw; and journals and serials of Shaw literary societies. A set of 86 scrapbooks contain newspaper and magazine clippings of Shaw's articles, reviews, and letters to editors in addition to contemporary criticism of Shaw's works and reviews of modern productions of his plays. Other materials are photographs of Shaw, his family members, and friends; photographs of theatrical productions of his plays and photograph albums with camera performances of Candida and other plays; pictorial works including cartoons, caricatures, engravings, woodcuts, and pastel portraits; theatrical playbills and programs; posters; ephemera; biographical materials; commercial LP records including soundtracks for productions of My Fair Lady, a musical adaptation of Shaw's Pygmalion; a film by Peak Film Productions labeled "Bernard Shaw's Village," which may be A Village Wooing; and five open-reel audiotapes of Heartbreak House recorded in Ohio in 1961. Acquired as part of the Rare Book Collection.

• Books and serials have been or will be cataloged in the University Library's Online Public Access Catalog.