Day to Day happenings in my life

An unusual find.318 words. Rated E

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P6. Interesting discovery in your closet or cupboard (go look and find something.

It’s so strange this prompt should have come up as today as I really did find something in the cupboard I’d completely forgotten about.
It was a letter, typed, but signed by George Bernard Shaw the Irish poet and playwright.
He was a man of strong views on many things. He was an atheist and as such was a regular correspondent of my grandfather. They were very much alike and agreed on many subjects, such as religion and politics. They were both members of the anti-smoking society. George Bernard Shaw wrote the letter I have in my possession in 1940, there are several more but my brother in England has them.
GBS was an outspoken man, to the point of rudeness. Here are three of his quotes: Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” “I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”

Anyway, I was watching a programme called, ‘Antique Roadshow,’ recently and was intrigued to discover how much money people are willing to pay for the signature of famous people. On the episode I saw the signature of Tolkien fetched six thousand dollars! So after finding my George Bernard Shaw letter I wondered if there was any monetary value. Apparently it’s worth quite a bit of money to a collector.

I was chatting to my 26 year old grandson, who is a bit of a philosopher, about GBS’s opinion on religion. He was really interested and we had a good discussion on what might happen to us after we die. He really perked up when I told him the letter had a bit of $value besides the interesting content. So I told him he could have it because he’s the only family member who is a deep thinker. It made his day, I think.