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[3 Lists of Nesbit books compiled by Selwyn Goodacre], undated
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.
A check list of the books of E. Nesbit, compiled by Selwyn Goodacre, undated
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.
"A life based on sound principles" by Julia Briggs, 1986-11-07
A preliminary check list of the books of E. Nesbit, compiled by Selwyn Goodacre, undated
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.
[Advance press ticket for The Railway Children], 1970-12-14
Anne to Julia Briggs, 1987-10-12
"Dear Julia - I have just come on a reference to Mrs. Bland (or Mrs. Tucker as she then was) in Dymchurch in 1922 in a book (a memoir) by John Carson about his mother and father Sybil Thorndyke [Lewis? Tlewis? Fleuris?] Carson..."
Archer, Margaret to Julia Briggs, 1988-02-02
"Dear Julia Briggs, I have read with great interest and appreciation your biography of the life of E. Nesbit: 'A Woman of Passion'. I was brought up on her books and always loved them. However, it so happens that I am a niece by marriage of Oswald Barron and his sister Dora (the Dora of the Bastables) who was a formidable though lovable Aunt in our family..."
Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities to Julia Briggs, 1986-07-30
Originally came with the copy of "Power of the Blood of Isis" attached, which was removed and moved into Series 3, Biographers' Research Notes.
Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities to Julia Briggs, 1986-06-18
Attached was a copy of the Ernest Wallis Budge biography, which was removed and moved into Series 3, Biographers' Research Notes.
Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities to Julia Briggs, undated
"Many thanks for your card and the note from Stephanie West, returned herewith. No, I think the Petrie idea wildly implausible - none of his contemporaries would have described him as "pale and kindly"!!! He was irascible, opinionated, strong-willed, hyperactive, and, when young, handsome in a rather saturnine way (he became patriarchal later)..."