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Unique letters chronicle friendship of George Bernard Shaw and Sir Barr y Jackson; Arts chiefs celebrate after pulling off a literary coup.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 19980217
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Arts chiefs in Birmingham are celebrating a literary coup after buying a unique archive of letters detailing the friendship between playwright George Bernard Shaw and Sir Barry Jackson, the giant of British theatre who founded the city's Repertory Company.

The rare collection includes a letter of commiseration to Sir Barry after he quit as director of the Stratford Festival in controversial circumstances in the late 1940s.

It is now being housed along with a mass of other material on the history of the Birmingham Rep and the Malvern Festival - which Sir Barry co-founded ...

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