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Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 2
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.2.031
Scope and Contents
Transcribed copy of the original letter.
Note at the top says this was written in Olive Hill's handwriting, with a post script in Nesbit's handwriting.
Dates:
December 5th
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.032
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"My dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Thanks so much for your kind letter returning the verses. I do indeed see how crushing were the difficulties under which you laboured, but cannot help feeling furious with the people who prevented your giving a more convincing picture. It is very illuminating that you should have tried to strike a balance and preserve a mean. These are the two things which are quite, quite impossible in any connection with our friend! You either loved her, or thought "that...
Dates:
1933-01-17
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.033
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"My dear Doris Langley Moore, I have been reading absorbedly the book. As you can imagine, it is of the deepest interest to me, both as her friend and as a workwoman myself. I think it is quite wonderful how you have managed to give a very vivid picture in spite of (a) your never having met her personally. (b) the difficulty of reconciling what I can imagine must have been very conflicting accounts of her, and (c) the necessity, owing no doubt to family reasons, of suppressing so very much...
Dates:
1933-01-13
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.034
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"My dear Doris Langley Moore, This is only to say that the book has arrived (late last night) and I am most touched that you should give it to me as a present..."
Dates:
1933-01-12
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.035
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"Dear Mrs. Langley-Moore, In reply to your postcard, I think Crez must have been late in May. Anyhow I know we bathe and that the fields were all golden with buttercups. This last detail is completely definite. I don't know what Arthur can be talking about when he says it was August!?..."
Dates:
1932-05-31
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.036
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"My dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Thank you so much for carefully returning my precious letters, which turned up safely this morning. I am very glad that they have turned out to be of such use. You will, won't you? let[sic] me see which of them and how you are going to use..."
Dates:
1932-02-12
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.037
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"My dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Herewith the E. Nesbit letters which I promised you. There do not seem to be as many as I thought, but I hope what there are will be of use. There was one of hers which I cut, in order to put up on my screen of letters about my work, which said "You always have such nice things to eat in your novels. It was a comfort to me, when subsisting on glasses of Cowlicks' Malted Horse, to read about the beautiful lunch given by Lady Day to Captain Rhos" (in my novel "Sir...
Dates:
1932-01-23
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.039
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of the original letter.
Dates:
1931-05-31
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.040
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Second page is a scrap of paper with an address for Col. Ruck in Wales.
Dates:
1931-08-14
Item — Box 3: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215353], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2005.002.1.3.6.041
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"Dear Mrs Moore - I have just thought of one of E. Nesbit's sayings which is not part of my personal memories of her but which you might care to put in - she was speaking of family-ties and I heard her say "Water runs down-hill. The affection you get back from your children is sixpence given as change for a sovereign." Fifteen years later I reminded her of this and she said with interest "Did I really say that, Berta? I think it very sad, rather brilliant, and quite true!"..."
Dates:
1931-05-11