Correspondence re OED, 1903-1948

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Box 12
Component identifier:
File 6
Content Summary:

Photostats of letters from Literary Figures e.g., Kipling, Shaw, Sayers Dr Murray

One letter from G.B. Shaw dated 18 Nov. 1916 claiming to have coined the word "Superman" c. 1900 from Nietzsche's "Ubermensch". OED entry for "Superman" attributes origin to G.B. Shaw in 1903

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