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)..."

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 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 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 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.