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Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1902 - 1989

Biography

Fashion historian who founded the Museum of Fashion in Bath, which is also known as the Museum of Costume. Author who wrote on Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace, and Edith Nesbit. Granted OBE.

Found in 932 Collections and/or Records:

De Selincourt, Basil, Hugh De Selincourt, and Doris Langley Moore, 1932-02-28 - 1932-03-07

 Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.7.011
Scope and Contents

Due to the filing system Doris Langley Moore kept, these letters are glued together in a manner that is impossible to separate without permanent damage.











Dates: 1932-02-28 - 1932-03-07

Dobson, Austin to Madam [Edith Nesbit], 1890-02-23

 Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.7.011

Dunsany, Beatrice to Doris Langley Moore, 1932-01-15

 Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.7.014
Scope and Contents

"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, It was very good of you to send us your book. I spent a happy time reading it and think you have done a most difficult thing wonderfully well. You have made her quite alive, also her circle and way of life, and I can't think..."

Dates: 1932-01-15

Dunsany, Beatrice to Doris Langley Moore, 1932-03-12

 Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.7.015
Scope and Contents

"Dear Mrs. Moore, I have acquired the habit of [copying] all [MS?] before sending it away because in the various Irish troubles I have had to live through, the first act of the "patriots" is nearly always to rob the poor. We have at different times lost a brooch, a watch, a considerable cheque, and I don't know how many letters in that way, and once our old van-driver was..."

Dates: 1932-03-12

Dunsany, Beatrice to Doris Langley Moore, 1932-03-10

 Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.7.016
Scope and Contents

"Dear Mrs. Moore, I am afraid I sent you copies of all the letters I had kept of Mrs. Bland-Tucker's. I sent them as soon as I can back here at the end of last July, to 6 Radcliffe Square. I suppose you did receive them, I haven't heard from you since? I expect they have been put away with the material for..."

Dates: 1932-03-10

Dunsany, Beatrice to Doris Langley Moore, 1931-07-12

 Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 7
Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.7.017
Scope and Contents

"Dear Mrs Langley Moore, I am afraid we don't return to Ireland till the end of this month, but I won't forget to try and find you some letters when we do. I hoped I might find one here as she and W. Tucker stayed here in June 1920, on which occasion we took them to see Halstead where she had lived as a..."

Dates: 1931-07-12

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Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography 1
Children's literature, English. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Moore, Doris Langley. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Nesbit, E. 1
Women -- England -- London -- Biography 1