Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989

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"Dear Madam, In reply to your enquiry, we much regret that at the moment we are unable to send you any information which will be of assistance to you, as the Manager of the Toy Department at the time you mention (1910/13) is no longer in this House..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore When I wrote I had not the smallest idea of your "incorporating" any part of my scribble in your book. I wrote simply for your own information trying to describe a side of the situation which you had naturally not obtained from friends of E.N. who did not share her admiration for H.B. (though Tucker did). I absolutely agree about your "balance in favour of E.N." in the triangle, though not at all that the triangle ought to have been broken up..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore I think you right to understand a point which has rather naturally perhaps not come your way very definitely hitherto. It is that "E. Nesbit" was never the dominating personality in her household until Bland's death in 1914 - whereafter she went to pieces. I write as a constant visitor of the house (2 or 3 days a week) from 1905 to 1909, and an occasional one thereafter. There were very many visitors to Well Hall especially on Sundays, and I can certainly say that in...

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"Dear Madam, I am very grateful for your kind letter received this morning, and for the information it contains which sheds considerable light on E. Nesbit's views of the Woman's Suffrage question. I had been told that she disapproved entirely of equal political status for women, but evidently this was not the case, and she merely refused to join the movement because she thought it might do some immediate injury to a cause she favoured still more..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, I am very sorry if our letters only added to your difficulties. You misunderstood my husband's intention if you thought that he meant you should give his ideas about Hubert Bland in the book. He didn't mean at all that you should use them, but he thought it looked as if we had all been too careless in leaving that side of E. Nesbit's life untold (as I think we had) and he felt it was as well you should know more definitively what sort of a man he was and why he was as...

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, I hope I have not kept you too long awaiting my reply to your letter. I felt the subject needed some consideration and could not get my mind on to it until to-day. In the first place you need not trouble to suppress anything for my sake because I do not in the least mind anyone knowing the facts of my illegitimacy. Also I do not feel there is anyone alive who will be hurt by adequate mention of my father's love affairs. At the same time I cannot feel that the extract you...

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I am glad you are through and feeling like work again. I enclose the two books of proofs and a letter from Skipper and my own corrections. I have marked one copy, but I had better enumerate them according to pages as it will make it easier for you. I am also sending you a draft of an agreement with Vedrenne and Eadie of the Royalty Theatre and a letter from the Author's Society, which clears up the matter of the one act play..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore I am send you these photographs cut from the Skipper's scrap-book. We haven't any other copies. I am sending the Tomb of the Dog and Flora's Temple, because it is so clear in detail and may come out better in reproduction than the others..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore I'm afraid I was a little [?] in my calculations about the Depford plays. Cinderella was in '92 and that was the first actual play. Before lent there were tableaux and things of that sort..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore I think that the approximately [?] years of the plays at Deptford were from 1894 - 1897. I should say that "Cinderella" was in '94. Sleeping Beauty '95 and Aladdin '96. I'm not absolutely certain of this but there certainly is no question of it being after 1900 because we went to Well Hall then and there affairs were all while we were at Three Gables at Grove Park. Also I'm sure I wasn't more than seven or eight when I was Fairy Godmother in Cinderella..."