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"Dear Mrs Moore I tseems ages since I heard from you and I am anxious to know first if you are A.I. in health, second as to how the book is getting on. I'm wondering and trusting that your worries about it are finished and that soon you will let me have the pleasure of seeing the proof's, or perhaps a typed copy..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore My hearty congratulations on your getting to the end of the work of the biography. A big 'hooray' from me too. You certainly have read a big job - and I am sure you will not regret that you chose the subject. I must say to you that you have ladeled out to me more than a full measure of thanks. You should know that the little aid I have given has been not only a duty but a real pleasure, because I felt that you had put your heart into it. Without that nothing can be done...

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"Dear Mrs Moore I wrote the Royal Literary Fund about [?] pension They replied that pensions are not granted from their fund, but grants are made, so you'll see I was in error in engineering there. The pension was granted from what is known as the 'Civil List' and I should have written there..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore I have written Secretary of Royal Literary Fund for information concerning the date when pension was granted. The amount I know was £60. It must have been granted either in 1915 or '16. Will send along as soon as I get reply..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore Thank you for your letter of 8 inst. Will answer more fully in a day or so. Please to know that Benn appreciated the first part of your freight, will have 'a lot on it.' Will be glad if you will accept for yourself the copy of 'Dormant'..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, Here's a copy of 'The Secret of Kyriels' Sorry it could not be sent sooner. Mine's a 'felle' feeling with you in the heart of research. I've done a little at the museum and Patents Office. I'd sooner be patching up a broken down old crock of a Trough in the Bay..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore Our afternoon post does not get here till nearly 5 and to answer one must post by 6.10. So you'll excuse roughness. Sir Alfred Yarrow the celebrated Engineer and Torpedo Boat Builder I believe was the first boy at 9 years of age and employed by him heating rivets when he started his business on the Isle of Dogs, Poplar, he died last year over 90..."