Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989

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"Just had your letter forwarded to me here. I'm answering in a hurry as I know you want to hear at once. But I can't help you about either point, I'm afraid. I never heard of this play being [taken?], and do not understand to what it can refer..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore I ought to have written before thanking you for "Pandora's Letter-Box", but for [two?] reasons I waited one that I wanted to finish the book before writing to you, the other I thought I might have answers..."

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"Dear Mrs Langley Moore I am afraid I very folishly did not take into account the fact that Monday was Whit-Monday when I accepted your invitation to lunch. I wonder if you realised it yourself. I am going away for a day or two and do not want to come back early enough to get me up to Town by lunch..."

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"Dear Madam In reply to your letter concerning a biography of my mother "E. Nesbit", I shall be glad to see you and help you if I can but I think there are people who can be of far more use than I in this respect, and probably I could put you on them. Unfortunately it is rather difficult for me to come and see you just this week or two but if you will be in Town still I should be glad if you could come here..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore Thank you so much for letting me know about the publication date. I am looking forward to it with great eagerness. I hope it is going to bring you great success. I know that Clifford has already borrowed it to several people, and the strength of my report of it, and they have promised to look out for it specially..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, I spent yesterday reading the Skipper's copy of the biography - mine only arrived to-day sent on from Willifield Way - and I want to write to you while it is "All hot, smoking from the pan". I want my copy for a few days longer but I don't want to put off writing until I send that back. First, I go further than Mr. Benn. I was not only "reluctant to put it down". I simply couldn't. I read straight on, only stopping to get a meal and then reading on right through the meal,...

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I am afraid that an excursion to London either for me or the Skipper to attend your party is quite out of the question. I intend to stay here until all this influenza has abated and Skipper isn't at all in [?] for [?] out in this icy weather..."

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"Dear Mrs Langley Moore I am awfully sorry but Monday, 18th is impossible for us. It is the first night of the Russian Opera and I have taken tickets weeks ahead for it. I expect it will be difficult to get us all together. Perhaps you could manage it in twos instead of ones..."

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"Dear H.G. It will seem an extraordinary thing for me to be writing to you asking you if you will put your name to one of the enclosed tomes, or to something you may write yourself of the same effect. I shouldn't be doing it unless I absolutely had to do something to earn a little money. I've tried for different jobs but nobody wants a woman of my age with no experience of anything except twenty years of married life and housework and indifferent health..."

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"Dear Madam, In answer to your letter of the 30th July, Mr Bernard Shaw has asked me to say that he would prefer to see the proofs with the index. The publishers will be glad to send them as they are likely to be nervous about personalities..."