Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
"GENIUS IN A FAMILY IS A NUISANCE" SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Autograph Note Signed, "GBS," to Alfred Feuer Jr., on a postcard, discussing children and the transmissibility of genius. 1 page, 12mo; slight creasing to lower right corner, addressed in holograph on verso. Welwyn, 11 March 1947
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"The fathers and sons of geniuses are mostly nobodies. Human stock, like agricultural, needs fallow as well as foison.
"Adopted children are always available; and they are the best loved and cared for.
"My works are my children. I should be too much occupied with them to look after the commonplace sort properly.
"Genius in a family is a nuisance."