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Shaw (George Bernard, playwright and polemicist, 1856-1950) Collection of Autograph Postcards signed and other pieces mostly relating to Bernard Shaw, including: 1 Typed Note signed and 2 Autograph Postcards signed to Clementina Black, 1p. & 2 sides, 8vo, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London, 23rd May - 3rd June 1921, on the whereabouts of Eleanor Marx's ashes which were found in the offices of the Communist Party in King Street, London, when the police raided the office in 1921, "The raiders saw the oak casket, and were told that it contained ashes. This created an unprecedented situation, as their instructions did not cover so unusual a find. Accordingly, they left it alone; and it is still in the Communist Offices in King Street, Covent Garden, which are again in full operation. Poor Eleanor seems unable to escape even in death from the troubled atmosphere in which her life was passed. I daresay Marx's remains will be removed from Highgate to Westminster Abbey someday. Perhaps then they will put Eleanor's beside him, and hang Aveling's in chains from Big Ben"; and a small quantity of others, including: 4 pieces of Autograph correspondence from Bernard Shaw to Thomas King Moylan about the setting up of an Irish Society of Authors in Dublin, "Ireland may be more fertile in dramatic genius: but after making the most extravagant allowance for this, what chance have you of ever enjoying an income that will pay your office and staff expenses"; a sheet of expenses drawn up by the publisher, Constable, for Bernard Shaw's Translations and Tomfooleries, 1929, 2 Autograph Postcards signed by F.E. Lowenstein, Society of Authors, about publishing 2 cards by Bernard Shaw to Ellen Terry; 2 photographs of Ellen Terry other correspondence concerning Jeffery Farnol etc., folds, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty). ⁂ Eleanor Marx (1855-98), socialist writer and activist. Eleanor Marx, the youngest surviving daughter of Karl Marx was a lifelong Marxist campaigner. In 1884 she struck up a relationship with Edward Aveling (1849-1898), zoologist and socialist. "Her death was precipitated by Aveling's secret marriage to Eva Frye in June 1897. Eleanor learned about this in August, and although she continued to live on and off with Aveling she committed suicide by taking prussic acid on 31 March 1898... ." (Oxford DNB). After Eleanor's death her ashes, which were never interred, but passed around various Communist Party offices, went to the Marx Memorial Library after it opened in 1933 and were displayed in a glass cabinet in the Lenin Room. They were displayed in the room until 1956 when they were interred in the tomb of Karl Marx Clementina Black (1853-1922), writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist.