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Framed. Excellent. Framed with a wonderful picture of Shaw. A great item. "Thanks for the camel. It is worth an autograph so here goes!" George Bernard Shaw..

1910. Black and white photograph on postcard of Bernard Shaw circa 1910. In a pose with his hand up on the side of his face he has written in ink "No: not toothache, only profound intellectuality. GBS

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Autograph postcard with printed letterhead, signed with initials "GBS" to Alfred Feuer Jr (USA) discussing children and the transmissibility of genius. 1 page, 12mo; slight creasing to lower right corner, addressed in holograph on verso. Welwyn, dated 11 March 1947. A brilliant example of Shaw's wit and analysis: "The fathers and sons of geniuses are mostly nobodies. Human stock, like agricultural, needs fallow as well as foison. Adopted children are always available; and they are the best loved and cared for. My works are my children. I should be too much occupied with them to look after the commonplace sort properly. Genius in a family is a nuisance."