This collection comprises eleven original letters from Bernard Shaw to Bernard Partridge. The first nine of the eleven letters discuss the rehearsals for and staging of the first performance of Shaw’s play Arms and the Man at the Royal Avenue Theater, Westminster, in 1894. Partridge, who Shaw addressed by his stage name Bernard Gould in most of the letters, played Sergius Saranoff. Rehearsals started on April 11, and the play opened on April 21. In the final two letters Shaw writes to Partridge about personal matters.