"Dear Mrs. Moore, This is in ratification of our telephone conversation, to say that I look forward to seeing you on Monday afternoon, when we will, or try to, find out whether we can do any good together with regard to your life of E. Nesbit!..."

"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Where are you now? Lately, I was discussing your book on E. NESBIT with our friend ARTHUR WATTS. "Well, since everybody else seems to say practically all they know about her" he said "Why shouldn't we, since all our memories are such happy ones", and indeed I begin to think perhaps better so..."

"My dear DORIS - Yes, I can clear up the E. NESBIT book mystery. 1) The letter is to me. It is in her own writing whilst so ill. It begins "Berta dear". 2) MAUDE ANNERLEY HADDEN, who was when I knew her and may still be MAUDE ANNERLEY BROWNLOW, was an E. NESBIT "fan" to whom I promised an autograph letter of the DUCHESS..."

Teal onionskin paper.

"Dear MRS MOORE. Herewith the book of E. NESBIT's poems which she sent to my MOTHER after a week in WALES - it was 1906 or 7, I think. I remember her reading aloud of several. There was one called "BRIDAL EVE" which she herself (E.N.) liked, I know. I did not then quite see which it meant!..."

"Dear MRS MOORE - (forgive wild [woeking?] or ink as my boy is writing to his girl with all my tools.) Your letter has only just reached me. The above address always will. Don't apologise. I will do my best to answer concisely. I am SO bad at dates, and will not swear to any. But am practically sure E.N. was in Paris in 1905. She went to Paris with ROM and IRIS..."