SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Autograph Letter Signed, "G.B.S.," to Ben Turner, thanking him for sending books, criticizing Dialect Societies and giving his opinion on how to write in a dialect. 1 page, 8vo postcard addressed and post-marked on verso; minor

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Autograph Letter Signed, "G.B.S.," to Ben Turner, thanking him for sending books, criticizing Dialect Societies and giving his opinion on how to write in a dialect. 1 page, 8vo postcard addressed and post-marked on verso; minor soiling. Ayot St. Lawrence, 2 July 1923 E700/1,000 ". . . The worst of the Dialect Societies is that they are too much taken up with out-of-the-way wordsand pronunciations: some of them think that when they have written a story in university English, and then misspelt it and spoiled the grammar a little, they have produced Yorkshire dialect, or whatever other dialect they are after. But what I am after is the construction of the sentences, the music and dramatic emphasis of them. All that can be got without going outside Johnson's Dictionary . . ."