Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989

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"Dear Madam, Thank you very much for your letter. I am afraid that, in my fondness for 'E. Nesbit,' I must have exaggerated to Mr. Hubert Griffith the length of my acquaintance with her. Actually, I saw a great deal of her during only four or five days, but not before or after..."

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"Dear Madam, I thank you for your answer to my letter, I am sorry that there is little prospect of a reissue of 'E. Nesbit's' poems, as I said in my first letter the two I know are no so excellent that one wants more of them, modern poetry like modern art..."

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"Dear Madam I noticed in the Times, and in its Supplement of last Thursday your reference to 'E. Nesbit." I am sorry I cannot give you any information but perhaps you can kindly afford me some..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, I feel terribly apologetic that I have been using articles found by you with no reference to you, but they were indeed produced by Mrs Philips, and Benn got permission for me to quote any parts of them that I cared to do. As you know, Mrs Philips is getting very old and her health is bad I think, and certainly she clean forgot to tell me that they were your discovery, and that you had them typed. Would you frame for me the exact wording you would like used in the...

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Thank you so much for your letter. THank God, I have the whole series of the articles she wrote about her childhood, though I did not know in what paper they had been published. But I have had permission to use as much of them as I like and I am quoting her by the yard..."

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, For Benn I am writing a short book on a Victorian-Edwardian childhood as seen through the Nesbit books. It is for the centenary of her birth in August. It is being called MAGIC AND THE MAGICIAN. I have, of course, a copy of your Biography of Nesbit, though very little of it touches on my book, for I don't mention Nesbit's childhood after she is twelve..."

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Writer is unidentified; the letter is torn at the bottom and half is missing.

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, So very sorry but - as you will see from this address - our tour has started, and I shall be away from town until nearly Christmas..."

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, I am so awfully sorry, but I shall not have a moment at home until this play at the Embassy is produced on May 31st..."