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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:

Walford, E.D. to Doris Langley Moore, July 16th

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.003
Scope and Contents

"Dear Madam, I have just read with much interest you[sic] Life of E. Nesbit and am venturing to ask you if you can tell me where I can find a little poem by her. It was published in the 80's in a little illustrated 'booklet' and describes a conversation between a girl and a young man in a garden; he tells her she has no idea of the real beauty of summer when she sees it only in a garden and describes the magnificence of summer on the moors and ends with some such words as these..."

Dates: July 16th

Walford, E.D. to unidentified recipient [Doris Langley Moore?], August 3rd

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.002
Scope and Contents

"Dear Madam, I am very much obliged to you for your prompt reply to my inquiry about E. Nesbit's little poem. It was exceedingly kind to write while suffering from a burned arm. A most painful thing as I know from experience. I had no difficulty in obtaining a copy of 'Garden Ooems[sic]' and am really delighted to find my little favourite again after the lapse of at least forty-five years!..."

Dates: August 3rd

Watts, Arthur to Edith Nesbit, 1906

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.008
Scope and Contents

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Date is pencilled in by a researcher.



Dates: 1906

Wells, H.G. to Doris Langley Moore, 1932-07-05

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.024

Wells, H.G. to Doris Langley Moore, 1932-05-25

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.025
Scope and Contents

"Dear Madam, I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., to Mr H.G. Wells and to inform you that Mr Wells is abroad. He will probably return to London in two or three weeks time when your letter will be placed before him..."

Dates: 1932-05-25

Whyte, Frederick to Doris Langley Moore, 1934-05-16

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.038
Scope and Contents

"Dear Mrs Moore So glad to receive your nice kind letter! But I suspect you are bluffing with the 'distinguished man of letters'! I am sure I am only a name to you, if that!..."

Dates: 1934-05-16

Whyte, Frederick to Doris Langley Moore, 1931-05-11

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.039
Scope and Contents

"Dear Miss Doris Langley Moore May a fellow-scribe and brother-biographer write to you without ceremony to compliment you most warmly - in fact enthustiastically - on the really delightful book on E. Nesbit? I picked it up at the London Library some weeks ago, my interest caught by Bland's photograph for I used to read his articles long ago, and I read it right through at once with intense..."

Dates: 1931-05-11

William Heinemann Ltd. and Doris Langley Moore, 1886-11-15 - 1931-11-26

 Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 11
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.11.041
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.

Letters between C.S. Evans and Doris Langley Moore, along with a transcribed letter written to Philip Bourke Marsden from A.C. Swinburne.







Dates: 1886-11-15 - 1931-11-26

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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