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Correspondence from Leah Hirsig to George Bernard Shaw
Hotel du Maine, Paris
Sept. 28/[19]24 e.v.
Geo Bernard Shaw
I read you and Ibsen as the same time when I was quite young. I became an Ibsenite and didn't quite see how I could reconcile you and him—and yet, I admired you.
I went through a period of thinking I was a degenerate because I could admire you and yet must have Ibsen.
Then for years your work bored me and I could turn to any page in Ibsen and find what I wanted.
Now, on my death bed a friend has sent in to me your "Woman of no Importance" the only thing I have had to read in weeks and I find I am right. You are a great man or at least you have the elements—Now is your time to prove it—to yourself.
From one of the "Three Women" mentioned in the pamphlet issued by Norman Mudd called "An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook".
I am asking Mr. Mudd to make a copy of this letter for future reference and to deliver the original to you.
Leah Hirsig.
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