Moore, Doris Langley, 1902-1989

"Dear Madam: I have your letter of the 19th inst. and am glad to hear that you are writing THE LIFE OF E. NISBETT[sic]. I had the pleasure of knowing this lady for many years. In the first instance she painted designs, which we published; that was very many years ago. She also wrote a great many stories for us and several books..."

"Dear Madam, I have written a letter book about Mr. Bernard Shaw which is published by Messrs Dckworth. I wrote to ask for your permission to draw upon the Shaw material in your Life of E. Nesbit, including the reproduction of parts of the communications from Mr. Shaw:..."

"Dear Miss Langley Moore, I was very pleased to receive your letter, so kindly welcoming my few reminiscences of E. Nesbit! I wrote them in rather a whirl, being in the midst of preparations for my daughters' wedding..."

"Dear Miss Langley Moore, I have just re-read, in the pages of your Biography of E. Nesbit (your presentation copy to Rosamund, but to me), the most vivid memories of a few years of my life - the years that I was an obscure though almost weekly frequenter of Well Hall..."

"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, May I congratulate you on your sympathetic study of the life of E. Nesbit - It is hard to believe that you never knew her personally. Thank you for your acknowledgment of my slight help, in your preface. I think the Blands must have kept on the Dymchurch house after 1911 though, as I have a copy of "Fear" given by her to my daughter..."

"Dear Madam In reply to your letter - Mrs. Bland was not as intimate with the [Sterudale?] Bennetts as with the other people I mentioned. Perhaps they were a little more conventional, but as they were in Dymchurch before I was they would have some earlier memories of her..."

"Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter. I am so glad my cuttings were of use to you. Certainly keep them, also the "face", as I have no-one left who would value them..."

"Dear Madam I am pleased to read in the "Spectator" that you are bringing out a life of "E. Nesbit" and I send a few notes in case they may be of use. I lived for some years at Dymchurch, in Kent; where the Blands had a week-end cottage, or rather, Old Georgian House, with powder-closets complete..."

"Dear Madam, I have just read your most interesting biography of "E. Nesbit" - it has given me great pleasure as I have always been a lover of her books, the first was given me in 1904, and I still have all her children's books..."