QUEX [pseudonym of George H.F. Nichols]. A group of letters addressed to the journalist "Quex", comprising: George Bernard SHAW. Autograph note signed (with initials), 10 Adelphi Terrace, 14 June 1920, on a correspondence card, enclosing a typescript interview with autograph annotations and cancellations (approximately 20 words in autograph), 2 pages, 4to ; J.M. BARRIE. Two autograph letters signed, 12 February and 13 May 1913, ONE REFERRING TO SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC, together 2½ pages, 4to ; and letters by Arnold BENNETT (thanking him for a book), Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine and Lord Northcliffe (6 letters signed) and an annotated typescript 'Preface' on New York by Jeffery Farnol; with a presentation album to "Quex", 1928, containing signatures of Lord Birkenhead, Sir Alfred Munnings and others, and associated material. Bernard Shaw writes that he has 'refused so many interviews ... that this is the utmost I can sanction without offence'. Characteristically, the text of the interview in question has been savagely edited, with a comparatively long-winded conversation being edited to epigrammatic brevity: asked the subject of his new play, the typescript gives a cautious exposition; but Shaw's snappier emendation is '"Biology" was the brief reply. "Anything else?" I ventured. "Religion"'. J.M. Barrie writes in February 1913 declining a suggestion that he write an article about Captain Scott: 'it is not a thing I feel I could do just now ... Possibly I may write something about Scott at some time. I am very sad about him. I am his child's godfather'; a second letter complains that he is 'a bit vexed at anything having got into the papers about my play'. Northcliffe's letters refer to the fate of the "Quex" pseudonym while Nichols was at the Front ('People wrote to me saying "Who is this young bounder, and why is he not at the Front?"') and to the war (Haig is 'the first British General I have met ... who understands the Germans as well as I do, which I think is a great deal, for I have been studying the brutes for years'). "Quex" was the pseudonym under which G.H.F. Nichols wrote his well-known 'Diary of a Man about Town', first for Northcliffe's Evening News and later for the News Chronicle . He died in 1933. (25)
QUEX [pseudonym of George H.F. Nichols]. A group of letters addressed to the journalist "Quex", comprising: George Bernard SHAW. Autograph note signed (with initials), 10 Adelphi Terrace, 14 June 1920, on a correspondence card, enclosing a typescript interview with autograph annotations and cancellations (approximately 20 words in autograph), 2 pages, 4to ; J.M. BARRIE. Two autograph letters signed, 12 February and 13 May 1913, ONE REFERRING TO SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC, together 2½ pages, 4to ; and letters by Arnold BENNETT (thanking him for a book), Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine and Lord Northcliffe (6 letters signed) and an annotated typescript 'Preface' on New York by Jeffery Farnol; with a presentation album to "Quex", 1928, containing signatures of Lord Birkenhead, Sir Alfred Munnings and others, and associated material. Bernard Shaw writes that he has 'refused so many interviews ... that this is the utmost I can sanction without offence'. Characteristically, the text of the interview in question has been savagely edited, with a comparatively long-winded conversation being edited to epigrammatic brevity: asked the subject of his new play, the typescript gives a cautious exposition; but Shaw's snappier emendation is '"Biology" was the brief reply. "Anything else?" I ventured. "Religion"'. J.M. Barrie writes in February 1913 declining a suggestion that he write an article about Captain Scott: 'it is not a thing I feel I could do just now ... Possibly I may write something about Scott at some time. I am very sad about him. I am his child's godfather'; a second letter complains that he is 'a bit vexed at anything having got into the papers about my play'. Northcliffe's letters refer to the fate of the "Quex" pseudonym while Nichols was at the Front ('People wrote to me saying "Who is this young bounder, and why is he not at the Front?"') and to the war (Haig is 'the first British General I have met ... who understands the Germans as well as I do, which I think is a great deal, for I have been studying the brutes for years'). "Quex" was the pseudonym under which G.H.F. Nichols wrote his well-known 'Diary of a Man about Town', first for Northcliffe's Evening News and later for the News Chronicle . He died in 1933. (25)
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