Shaw (George Bernard) Typed letter with handwritten addition

The letter, addressed to Dr. Eder, reads "I do not suffer from insomnia - at least not what anybody who knows what real insomnia is, would call it insomnia. If I overdrive myself too much, I wake up at about four in the morning, and do not get to sleep again for perhaps about three-quarters of an hour. And that is the extent of my insomnia; and it does not last. I suppose you have been overdriving yourself. Try absolutely refusing to do any useful or sensible work after lunch. I cannot explain my political position to you. There is something inherent in your germ-plasm which makes you congenitally incapable of understanding anything I say. I have explained in writing over and over and over and over and over [...] with the most laborious lucidity. And the only effect I produce on you is to make you assert that Sidney Webb is a Liberal spy in the Fabian camp. You must grow out of it and get rid of your insomnia, which has produced a sort of political hyperaesthesia in certain directions and upset your balance. Why the dickens don’t you take a holiday?", one page, folding marks and creasing, browning to margins, 4to, 10 Adelphi Terrace, 4 February 1908, with handwritten addition in red ink reading "Mr J.B. Hobman is authorized to quote this letter or any part of it in his forthcoming biography of the late Dr. Eder. G. Bernard Shaw, 9th Jan 1940".

***The letter was originally sent to david Eder by Shaw. The handwritten note, in Shaw's hand, was addressed to the vendor's grandfather, who wrote a book called 'David Eder. Memoirs of a Modern Pioneer".

Provenance:

From the estate of Joseph and Daisy L. Hobman.