Briggs, Julia, 1943-2007

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"Dear Mrs Briggs, I write with difficulty because my hands, my typewriter, and my spectacles are all out of order, so prepare for errors. It was true I was in pain when you and William made your otherwise very agreeable visit here. I have now had the report of an X-ray and it seems that my spine, besides having osteo-arthritis, is tending to crumble for the want of chalk, so now I await instructions for coping with this..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Briggs, So many people who are asking a favour of a stranger "begin with an apology" but so few make it easy to reply by sending a stamped addressed envelope. Your letter comes at a time when I am coping with immense and most undesirable plans for alteration of the Museum of Costume founded by me in Bath - which are occasioning a great deal of letter-writing; when I am trying to get my last book to press despite perpetual interruptions; and when I am beginning work with a temporary...

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Handwritten original.

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Written by Sarah Wimbush, Research Assistant in the Archive.

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"Dear Mrs. Briggs, Thank you very much for your letter of the 30th July, and I am sorry for not writing sooner. It was extremely interesting seeing the photocopy of the woodcut(?) of E. Nesbit, 1899. Alas, I have not be able to discover the artist of the monogram who did the print..."

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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 Lola L. Szladits, Curator of the Berg Collection.

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Jocelyn Nixon was Gertrude Bland's niece, according to this letter.