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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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Originally attached was the Bossom book list, which was separated from the letter and rehoused into Series 3: Biographers' Research Notes with Briggs's bibliography lists.

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"Dear Miss Briggs, I am so sorry to be slow in replying to your card of Sept 17th and in acknowledging the safe return of Geoffrey Kitchener's [?] booklets..."

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"Dear Julia Briggs, Thank you for phoning and thank you especially for being willing to undertake this afterword for us. I enclose the text of The Three Mothers. It first appeared in the Strand Magazine, the date to be obtained from Mrs. McCarthy of the Nesbit Society sometime after next weekend - I'll let you know..."

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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..."