Typed Note Signed, reciept

New York: King Features Syndicate, International News Service, 1936. Receipt (attachment from check), signed by George Bernard Shaw, for payment of the rights to publish an article in the Hearst Newspapers. Original legal bank receipt, printed on green bonded paper. 8-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Small tear at tip of one corner, slight creasing, else very good. Receipt (attachment from check), signed by George Bernard Shaw, for payment of the rights to publish an article in the Hearst Newspapers. Original legal bank receipt, printed on green bonded paper. 8-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. George Bernard Shaw won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature

Headed (in type): (truncated) "King Features Syndicate, Inc./ International New Service...", with typed information: "7/31/36... 7/26 Planes and Gas Seen as Peacemakers, 1,000.00." Beneath this information, George Bernard Shaw has added the following information (typed in red): "Received the sum of one thousand dollars for my license to publish the above article in the Hearst Newspapers in the United States once."
Beneath this statement, granting the rights of the single publication of Shaw's article "Planes and Gas Seen as Peacemakers" in the Hearst Newspapers, is affixed a British revenue postage stamp, over which is inscribed, in ink holograph, by George Bernard Shaw: "$1000/ G. Bernard Shaw/ 10th August 1936" See Laurence C3153 for a discussion of the publication of this essay in the New York American (Inventory #: 333520)