Briggs, Julia, 1943-2007

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Consists of a mixture of materials that belonged to Edith Nesbit, her biographers (Doris Langley Moore and Julia Briggs), her daughter-in-law Gertrude Bland, and others. Includes correspondence, work product, original manuscripts, artifacts, photographs, clipping albums, oversized artwork, and a wooden writing case.

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Written by Barbara Ludlow.

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Written by Barbara Ludlow.

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Written by Barbara Ludlow.

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Second page contains notations from Briggs.

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"Dear Mrs Briggs, If I can begin by suggesting my own products - (1) The Time Traveller, which is the biography of H.G. Wells by my wife Jeanne and myself; and (2) (appearing in April) our collected biography called The First Fabians, both from Weildenfeld and Nicolson..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Briggs, Most trails on the Blands run into the sand. Unfortunately for you Mrs Paul Bland (the last survivor) lived at Buxted, near here, and died last year. She was never able to produce any papers, and indeed I believe there was a kind of holocaust at the beginning of the war when her husband died. I think she sold some papers in America and was ashamed to tell me. She claimed that there were still some papers down at her brother's house at Dymchurch and was always promising to...

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"Dear Julia, 'Lord Tottenham' would seem to be an amalgam. The best known 'gone to the dogs' story was Coloenl Sibthorpe (a story protectionist) (sometimes spelt without the 'e') There might be an anti-Gladstonian joke involved, because till 1880 Gladstone was M.P. for Greenwich, which included Blackheath..."

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"Dear Julia, Your letter received this morning was very gratifying and made me more eager than ever to see you here, but now we have reached Christmas week - a period about which my feelings are absolutely pro-Scrooge - I have to postpone making any definite appointment..."