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George Bernard Shaw Donates Property in CarlowShaw (Geo. B.) Folder of documents relating to the handover of the Assembly Rooms in Carlow to Bishop Patrick Foley and other trustees for use as a technical school. Provenance: Dan H. Laurence, literary and dramatic adviser to the Shaw estate.* Copy of Carloviana for December 1956 articles on Shaw’s connections with the town, to mark the centenary of his birth (his maternal grandfather was Thomas Gurly of Carlow)* Typed indenture dated 31 October 1919 between George Bernard Shaw and Bishop Foley and other trustees. Signatories include Shaw and the Bishop, and there is a note in Shaw’s handwriting affixed to the deed.* Several original documents pertaining to the history of the premises, including the bail bond of Anne Miller in ?20 to appear to answer the charge of having set fire to the Club Rooms of the town of Carlow, 1 November 1811* MS copy of letter from Shaw to Bishop Foley, 15 February 1918* Typed and MS copies of deeds and other documents relating to the ownership of the Assembly Rooms.As an Archive, w.a.f. (1)