Shaw, George Bernard:

$1,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

[Typed Letter, Signed, on the Alexander Technique of Yoga]. Writing to David Simonoff, in Toronto, Shaw asserts: "... I cannot imagine how you could expect the Veterans Affairs Department to give you £500 and three years training to become a practitioner and propagandist of the Alexander yoga. You might as well apply for training as a spiritualist medium, a conjuror, or an acrobat." He relates the background of his own course of treatments with F.M. Alexander in 1938, as well as their success where osteopathy had produced different results, and closes with a personal observation on Alexander: "As he had lived for many years in expensive quarters in London, charging three guineas a visit, he must have convinced his patients that they benefited by his handling. I do not regret having at considerable cost, gone through with him. But as he was academically unqualified it is useless to ask a public department to class an apprenticeship to his practice as an official profession for war veterans. Faithfully, G. Bernard Shaw."

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