"Dear Mrs Moore - I have just thought of one of E. Nesbit's sayings which is not part of my personal memories of her but which you might care to put in - she was speaking of family-ties and I heard her say "Water runs down-hill. The affection you get back from your children is sixpence given as change for a sovereign." Fifteen years later I reminded her of this and she said with interest "Did I really say that, Berta? I think it very sad, rather brilliant, and quite true!"..."

"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..."

"Dear Miss Briggs, Twice a week I come in to read and answer Berta Ruck's letters. At 99 she is remarkably fit, mentally and physically, but her handwriting tends to sprawl over the page, so it is far easier for me to do her letters. You couldn't have picked a better character to ask Mrs. Oliver about than E. Nesbit. From time to time she reminisces to me at great length about E. Nesbit and her daughter..."

"My dear Paul - Many thanks for your kind letter with remembrances of my FATHER: I have just come up from the funeral over his ashes - we were all present except D'ARCY who is in CANADA, and they had the (current) CHIEF CONSTABLE of CARNARVONSHIRE and some of FATHER'S own policemen in uniform, and WELSH hymns and so on - all rather touching but very harrow, we shall SO terribly miss him..."

"My dear Paul, This is to ask you whether you would mind being mentioned in the book that I am now writing of Reminiscences. I don't think I would put anything you could possibly mind but I think one ought always to ask. I am also including a sketch of your mother as I knew her, and some letters of hers to me. Skipper said it was all right with him..."