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Briggs research notes - "Check up/Correspondence", undated
Briggs research notes - "Correspondence filed under Oswald Barron", 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.
Moore, Doris Langley to Julia Briggs, 1987-12-23
"Dear Julia, Your letter received this morning was very gratifying and made me more eager than ever to see you here, but now we have reached Christmas week - a period about which my feelings are absolutely pro-Scrooge - I have to postpone making any definite appointment..."
Moore, Doris Langley to Julia Briggs, 1983-10-24
"Dear Mrs Briggs, I write with difficulty because my hands, my typewriter, and my spectacles are all out of order, so prepare for errors. It was true I was in pain when you and William made your otherwise very agreeable visit here. I have now had the report of an X-ray and it seems that my spine, besides having osteo-arthritis, is tending to crumble for the want of chalk, so now I await instructions for coping with this..."
Moore, Doris Langley to Julia Briggs, 1976-08-14
Powell, Christine to Julia Briggs, 1977-02-28
Attachments include an Extract of a letter written by A. Lenore Craser of South Australia in 1973, an extract of a letter by A. Phillips of South Australia in 1973, and the extract from a diary of Peter Jacob Planta, born in 1721.
Simpson, Jean to Doris Langley Moore [and Julia Briggs], 1987-10-11
Originally sent to Doris Langley Moore. Handwriting at the top (possibly Moore's) indicates that the letter should be forwarded to Julia Briggs.
Contents refer to Margaret Ostler, to whom Nesbit dedicated "The Enchanted Castle" in 1907. She was the daughter of Alice Hoatson's sister Annie. Simpson notes that Margaret may have had an illegitimate child with Hubert Bland in 1913.