Philips, Mary Iris (Bland), 1881-1965

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"Dear Mrs Moore, Very many thanks indeed for the book of poems - I gather that I should have received it days ago, but owing to feeble [mindedness?] in our local post man, it got delivered to another Philips just along the road..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore In reply to your letter to Paul on 28th May - 1. I can't remember why my father became a Catholic - I should say about 1900 - I believe my mother was [?] some years later - she abandoned the Catholic Church during the war because she considered that the Pope should have put his foot down [heavily?] in protest against it!..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore - I've sent the city pictures to my sister, wh ois staying with Skipper - I have nothing better myself - I enclose a portrait of my father, which I should like back as it is the best I have..."

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"Dear Mrs. Moore, Very many thanks for sending me a copy of your book - I have read it right through again and am still delighted with it. It is quite wonderful that you have made such a life like portrait of a woman whom you have never met..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, About the tale of the [?] copied from my exercise book. If they were dated June 1902, they were certainly written then. It was my mother[sic] habit to write her serial chapters at the last possible moment. The chapter mentioned may possibly have been for the sequol[sic] to the Five Children and It or "Psammead"..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, My sister has handed your letter to me since I always nursed my mother through her illnesses until I married. I remember the cancer scare very well. She had [hers?] in bed and in much pain for some days with lumbago - The Saturday morning the doctor came to see her about a new pain - he told her that she had cancer of the stomach, that she must have an operation at once and must go to town on the Monday to see a specialist about it. He also, idiotically, added that her...

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I had your letter. I didn't realize that it was so long ago! My life is very full of young cousins - also my house. They will probably be here during the whole of April, so I fear I shall not be able to take the German girl. Thank you for writing to me about her..."

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"Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter. Naturally I am very much interested to know that you are to write a biography of my mother "E. Nesbit." As I have to work for a living, I fear I cannot come to see you, but I shall be very glad if you can come to see me either at Paddinton Street or at [Gordus?] Green..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I'm sorry I couldn't answer by [?] of post, I, too, am working 15 hours a day! Mother's attitude towards the Pope was that was was nothing to her with the church - may be inevitable, but in any case the church should have protested, specially against the invasion of Belgium - and the Church should have taken no part at all, if it could not stop it..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I have read the book, I think it very good on the whole - whether it will be of so much interest to outsiders as it was to me is difficult to say - I think you have managed the unfortunate incidents and dates with much tact!..."