Editing George Bernard Shaw (section)

===Letters and diaries===
[[File:Bernard-Shaw-1904.jpg|thumb|alt=Caricature of middle-aged bearded man at his ease in an armchair|"The strenuous literary life—George Bernard Shaw at work": 1904 caricature by [[Max Beerbohm]]]]
Shaw was a prolific correspondent throughout his life. His letters, edited by Dan H. Laurence, were published between 1965 and 1988.{{sfn|Wisenthal|1998|p=305}} Shaw once estimated his letters would occupy twenty volumes; Laurence commented that, unedited, they would fill many more.{{sfn|Weales|p=520}} Shaw wrote more than a quarter of a million letters, of which about ten per cent have survived; 2,653 letters are printed in Laurence's four volumes.{{sfn|Crawford|1990|p=148}} Among Shaw's many regular correspondents were his childhood friend [[Edward McNulty]]; his theatrical colleagues (and ''[[platonic love|amitiés amoureuses]]'') [[Mrs Patrick Campbell]] and [[Ellen Terry]]; writers including [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], H. G. Wells and G. K. Chesterton; the boxer [[Gene Tunney]]; the nun [[Laurentia McLachlan]]; and the art expert [[Sydney Cockerell]].{{sfn|Holroyd|1997|pp=94–95 (McNulty); 197–198 (Terry); 534 (Chesterton); 545–547 (Campbell); 604–606 (Tunney); 606–610 (Cockerell and McLachlan); and 833 (Wells)}}{{refn|Individual volumes have been published of the correspondence with Terry (issued 1931), Tunney (1951), Campbell (1952), Douglas (1982) and Wells (1995).{{sfn|Pharand: Shaw chronology 2015}}|group=n}} In 2007 a 316-page volume consisting entirely of Shaw's letters to ''The Times'' was published.{{sfn|Pharand: Shaw chronology 2015}}

Shaw's diaries for 1885–1897, edited by Weintraub, were published in two volumes, with a total of 1,241 pages, in 1986. Reviewing them, the Shaw scholar Fred Crawford wrote: "Although the primary interest for Shavians is the material that supplements what we already know about Shaw's life and work, the diaries are also valuable as a historical and sociological document of English life at the end of the Victorian age." After 1897, pressure of other writing led Shaw to give up keeping a diary.{{sfn|Crawford|1988|pp=142–143}}