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Breakell, Ada to Doris Langley Moore, 1931-10-23

Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 3

Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.3.017

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, I am sorry I have been so long in sending a reply to yours of the 19th and fear it can only be a disappointing one. Although I knew the Nesbits such a long time I did not meet Edith until she was seventeen and after the death of her father and elder sister, and I was never told much about their family affairs. We lived so far apart, my home being in Manchester and theirs chiefly in London, although we visited occasionally there were long periods between our meetings...

Dates: 1931-10-23

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Breakell, Ada to Doris Langley Moore, 1931-08-21

Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 3

Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.3.018

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"Dear Mrs Moore, In reply to your letter of the 19th - it was Mrs. Nesbit who was twice married. Her first husband was a Mr. Green and [Sarelta?] was the only child of that marriage, so far as I know..."

Dates: 1931-08-21

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Breakell, Ada to Doris Langley Moore, 1913-06-20

Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 3

Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.3.019

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"Many thanks - I have received the letters..."

Dates: 1913-06-20

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Breakell, Ada to Doris Langley Moore, 1931-06-08

Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 3

Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.3.020

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I received your letter last week before leaving London. In reply to it, I was aware that some of the letters of "E. Nesbit" were incomplete, but I am sorry to say that they are the only letters of hers I possess and I do not think the letters would be of any use to you..."

Dates: 1931-06-08

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Breakell, Ada to Doris Langley Moore, 1931-05-08

Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 3

Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.3.021

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"Dear Madam, In reply to your letter of May 5th I shall be pleased if you can call here on Tuesday afternoon next..."

Dates: 1931-05-08

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Briggs research notes - "Check up/Correspondence", undated

Item — Box 7: Series 2005.002.3 [Barcode: 000021215421], Folder: 1

Identifier: 2005.002.3.7.1.077

Dates: undated

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Briggs research notes - "Correspondence filed under Oswald Barron", undated

Item — Box 7: Series 2005.002.3 [Barcode: 000021215421], Folder: 1

Identifier: 2005.002.3.7.1.078

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.

Dates: undated

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Brompton Oratory to Doris Langley Moore, July 19th

Item — Box 1: Series 2005.002.1 [Barcode: 000021215469], Folder: 3

Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.3.034

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"Dear Madam, I have searched our registers and can find no entry of Mrs Bland's baptism or indeed anything about her. She could not have really made a retreat here because we never give retreats. She would of course have been instructed before her reception into the church and it is impossible this is what is meant..."

Dates: July 19th

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives