BR TO GILBERT MURRAY, 13 SEPT. 1953
BRACERS 52434. TLS. Murray papers, Bodleian
Edited by W. Bruneau. Proofread by A.G. Bone

41 Queen’s Road
Richmond
Surrey.
13 September, 1953.

Dear Gilbert,

Thank you for your letter.1 My thanks are the more pronounced as you had to overcome the agony of divorce from your typewriter.

As for Shaw, I disliked his arrogance as exhibited in my story about him and Masaryk,2 but I disliked much more his quite intolerable cruelty toward anyone whose painful experiences threw doubt upon his faith in Holy Russia.

I agree with you that Wells was a lower type, but I think he was less given to the deliberate and intentional infliction of suffering, provided it was human beings and not animals that suffered.

Yours ever,
B.R.

• 1

  your letter BRACERS 79023, in which Murray had commented on BR’s recent radio broadcasts on G.B. Shaw (28 Aug. 1953) and H.G. Wells (4 Sept. 1953).

• 2

  my story about him and Masaryk See “Bernard Shaw, the Admirable Iconoclast”, The Listener, 50 (3 Sept. 1953): 380–1.