Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989

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Consists of a mixture of materials that belonged to Edith Nesbit, her biographers (Doris Langley Moore and Julia Briggs), her daughter-in-law Gertrude Bland, and others. Includes correspondence, work product, original manuscripts, artifacts, photographs, clipping albums, oversized artwork, and a wooden writing case.

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"Dear Mrs. Moore, Thank you for your [?]. I hope you [?] about [?] accurate [?] is not [?] since you have found one in [?] your accuracy. I humbly apologise..."

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"Dear Mrs. Moore, Thank you for your [?] the E.N. letter to O.S. The six number before O.S. left below in 1888 for Alassio, where [?] remained for some months, were spent near London..."

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"Dear Mrs. Moore, I have just come across the enclosed letter from Edith Bland to Olive Schreiner and [?] you might like to see it. Please return..."

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, I am pleased you find the few words I sent about Mrs. Bland worth using..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, I am pleased to hear you are writing of "E. Nesbit" and sorry I cannot be of any real help. It is time I took an active interest in the movement out of which the Fabian Society grew, but I was never connected with the Society. I well remember, however - though it is long ago - being present at what was I think its earliest meeting in Pease's rooms, and observing in the chair immediately in front of that I occupied a woman young and beautiful it seemed to me and...

Scope and Contents Packet of items that need to stay together.First item is a blank card for Mrs. S.V. Colquhoun. Second item is a photocopy of a handwritten letter to "Vere" from "Eric".Third item is a photocopy of a typewritten letter to the Sunday Times from Doris Langley Moore, inquiring about a painting Nesbit used for a story. She was searching to reproduce the painting, and notes in her letter that "Uncle Eric" said it was painted in 1887 but was never...