TLS signed “G. B. S.,” one page, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, July 5, 1938. Letter to Sir Almoth Wright at St. Mary's Hospital, in full: "Yesterday a patient went into the Almroth Wright Ward for an operation. Being, as he says, 'slightly frightened' he begs me to pray for him. I am some doubt as to whether my prayers to heaven would be much of a recommendation; but a prayer to you to be kind to him seems practical. He is Lord Alfred Douglas, whose father, old Queensberry, ruined him (purposely, he believes) by announcing that he was being corrupted by Oscar Wilde. He was a very beautiful youth and quite considerable poet; and he stuck to Wilde through thick and thin, with the result that he never shook off his father's imputation, though he was victorious in all the lawsuits that followed. He is now a pious Catholic and a teetotaller, but he still has an infantile complex that is amusing, especially as he is quite conscious of it himself. Tell the students that he is not a homosexualist, and that his brother the Marquess is a great figure in the hospital world. I am at present floored by pernicious anemia. They are injecting liver hormone; and my blood count is running up (probably because I am resting) but for the moment I am hors de combat." In fine condition. Accompanied by a research booklet. A fascinating letter from Shaw regarding the state of his friend and fellow poet Lord Alfred Douglas, the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Shaw's friendship and correspondence with Douglas served as the basis for Anthony Wynn's play Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely Friendship.
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