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.

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Powell, You are kind to have taken so much trouble. The family trees are fascinating - especially the Nesbit-Pariss link - so much so, that there were one or two other questions that I'd like to ask, although I feel I've trepsassed on your time enough already. Thanmk you also for the Australian material - I guessed that something of the sort had happened between Ada Breakell and Henry Nesbit, but Doris Langley Moore says nothing about it - it was very hard to understand, otherwise,...

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"Dear Mrs Bossom, Three years ago I bought an E. Nesbit book from you, and I have just found the list of books that you kindly send me then. I am now half-way through writing my own account of E. Nesbit (rather interrupted by various other obligations), and when I found the list you had sent me, I wondered whether you had sold your copies of In Homespun, and The Literary Sense..."

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"Dear Mrs Nixon, Thank you so much for your generous and delightful hospitality last weekend. I'm afraid I was very far from the ideal guest, with my nose stuck in your various fascinating pieces, but it was most kind of you to bea rwith me and so generously show me your collection - it is peculiarly fascinating, when one has been working away at the material so long to find such things as Mavis Carter's scrapbook, so exactly as she described it..."

Scope and Contents Dear Mr. Merry, Thank you so much for your kind and prompt reply to my enquiry about The Butler in Bohemia. I am glad, at any rate, that Drane turned out to be operating in London, rather than from the Content, as I had feared. As for "Jackson", it is a little mystifying - certainly Barron wrote only historical and archaeological papers under his own name. He wrote for the "Evening News" as "The Londoner." But E. Nesbit was also friendly with a lithographer called Ernest Jackson, so I...

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Draft of a handwritten letter, unsigned, with most of the text crossed out.

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Photocopy of a handwritten letter.

Scope and Contents "Dear Selwyn, I've now laid hands on Kirkpatrick's bibliography and am mightily clearer on one or two points, though I would stil like to know the sources of some of the material there, especially the play listings. Though the critical material is by DLM, I am very doubtful that she wrote the bibliography since, as you know, it embodies quite a list of new material of the sort she wouldn't have been capable of finding by 1978 (she is a very frail and tottery old lady) - if ever (she was...

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"Dear Sir, You may remember that I and two friends invaded your office about a fortnight ago, looking for the family graves of the Blands, and particularly of Hubert. I was puzzled because we couldn't find the record of his mother, Mary Anne Bland's burial. I have no found the exact date of her death - August 1893 - (I'm afraid I was looking earlier than this)..."