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Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, I feel terribly apologetic that I have been using articles found by you with no reference to you, but they were indeed produced by Mrs Philips, and Benn got permission for me to quote any parts of them that I cared to do. As you know, Mrs Philips is getting very old and her health is bad I think, and certainly she clean forgot to tell me that they were your discovery, and that you had them typed. Would you frame for me the exact wording you would like used in the...

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Thank you so much for your letter. THank God, I have the whole series of the articles she wrote about her childhood, though I did not know in what paper they had been published. But I have had permission to use as much of them as I like and I am quoting her by the yard..."

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, For Benn I am writing a short book on a Victorian-Edwardian childhood as seen through the Nesbit books. It is for the centenary of her birth in August. It is being called MAGIC AND THE MAGICIAN. I have, of course, a copy of your Biography of Nesbit, though very little of it touches on my book, for I don't mention Nesbit's childhood after she is twelve..."