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"My darling daughter, Thank God for this day! Now our boy is safe! I tried to come [...] you today, the trains were too crowded..."

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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.

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, I am very sorry if our letters only added to your difficulties. You misunderstood my husband's intention if you thought that he meant you should give his ideas about Hubert Bland in the book. He didn't mean at all that you should use them, but he thought it looked as if we had all been too careless in leaving that side of E. Nesbit's life untold (as I think we had) and he felt it was as well you should know more definitively what sort of a man he was and why he was as...

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, I hope I have not kept you too long awaiting my reply to your letter. I felt the subject needed some consideration and could not get my mind on to it until to-day. In the first place you need not trouble to suppress anything for my sake because I do not in the least mind anyone knowing the facts of my illegitimacy. Also I do not feel there is anyone alive who will be hurt by adequate mention of my father's love affairs. At the same time I cannot feel that the extract you...

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I am glad you are through and feeling like work again. I enclose the two books of proofs and a letter from Skipper and my own corrections. I have marked one copy, but I had better enumerate them according to pages as it will make it easier for you. I am also sending you a draft of an agreement with Vedrenne and Eadie of the Royalty Theatre and a letter from the Author's Society, which clears up the matter of the one act play..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore I am send you these photographs cut from the Skipper's scrap-book. We haven't any other copies. I am sending the Tomb of the Dog and Flora's Temple, because it is so clear in detail and may come out better in reproduction than the others..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore I'm afraid I was a little [?] in my calculations about the Depford plays. Cinderella was in '92 and that was the first actual play. Before lent there were tableaux and things of that sort..."