Briggs, Julia, 1943-2007

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"Dear Julia, The photographer is called Breach Nicholas (rather an unusual and splendid name, I think) and his address is: 2 Albion Street Lewes Sussex Tel. 07916-6098 (office) and " - 6057 (home" I do not know him personally, but our old pal Bill Fishman (of East End Jewish Radicals and The Streets of East London fame) says you should mention him as the source of the information!..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Julia, I am sending by separate post a whole mass of photocopies of the 1888 Weekly Dispatch Nesbit items, and the Daily Chronicle weekly articles. I think you will find them pretty interesting! Sorry for delay. The day at the Bodleian was fruitful - many thanks for finding the books for me. In the front of 'We've Tales to Tell' (1893) were pictures of all the books in the range, so I think the two not previously listed will be EN items - By the Nursery Lamp, and The Arabian...

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"Dear Julia, I must apologise for being so so slow in writing to you. First - may I say how very much I enjoyed the evening dining at Hertford it was a great treat and privilege for me, and I do appreciate your thought and kindness in letting me come. It was an evening to savour. And also very many thanks for putting me up overnight. It all made the whole weekend a time to remember..."

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"Dear Julia, Many thanks for your note. I am more than happy for the check list to be styled 'bibliography'. I can now give you some more details about some of the books I mentioned in my last letter. Though how much one can at this stage add to the final list I am not sure..."

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"Dear Julia, Many thanks for your letter - and for the very generous cheque, which is much appreciated. I enclose several sheets of corrections etc. for the prelim list. I hope you can follow it. Quite a lot of the notes are simply attempts to tidy it up, and make it more internally consistent..."

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"Dear Julia, Many thanks for your letter. I was relieved that your publisher thought the list O.K. I enclose the Guardian ref. I am not surprised you couldn't find it! It is rather tucked away. I love the idea of several copies of the book. I tend to give copies of any books in which I am involved to members of the family at Christmas, and it can get a mite expensive (the Steadman Alice retails at £15 - that multiplied a few times can certainly add up)..."

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"Dear Julia, I do hope the package got to you in time for the meeting with the publisher. I must apologise for my rather incoherent letter that accompanied it - but I wrote it at about 1 am after we had had a dinner party - I knew I had to do it then, as I was due at Surgery at 9 in the morning, and had to have it ready for the post before that..."

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Letter may be incomplete, as Selwyn Goodacre was consistent about signing the bottom of his correspondence, and this does not contain a signature.

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"Dear Dr Briggs, Many thanks for your card. It was a great delight to meet yo in June, and I am only glad that I was able to be of some help. As promised I can now enclose my copy of Bunny Tales, for you to borrow for a while. There is no rush at all for its return. I have had a slide made of it for my talk at the Beatrix Potter conference this week-end, so it is now 'free'!..."