Item IE LMOD 269 - 1943 Postcard from George Bernard Shaw

paper, ink. 8.5 x 10.5 cm

Reply to being asked when he thinks World War 2 will end. Jokes about Adolf Hitler retiring to Vice Royal Lodge, Dublin.
In 1943 the playwright George Bernard Shaw was living in London. Shaw went to school here on St. Stephen’s Green, and never lost his accent, even though he left Dublin at 20. A magazine called The Strand asked a number of writers when they thought the Second World War would end. “Nothing doing,” Shaw writes here, “I never prophesy until I know; and nobody yet knows where those two will end. My best guess is that Adolf will enjoy a dignified retirement in the Vice-Regal Lodge in Dublin, which is presumably to let at present.”

ink stain that looks like it's from a drop of water