Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989

"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!..."

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Date is pencilled in by a researcher.

Written by Wells's secretary on his behalf.

"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..."

"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!..."

"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..."

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.