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

"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 sometimes..."