University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Julia Briggs, 1986-12-02

Written by Gene Rinkel, the curator of Special Collections at the Urbana-Champaign Library. Rinkel mentions enclosing photocopies of several letters, which have been separated from this original.

The bottom of Rinkel's original letter and the verso has portions of handwritten information in a handwriting that does not match his signature. It is likely that this is by Julia Briggs, as she made notes constantly, and this does appear similar to her handwriting.

"Dear Professor Briggs, I am enclosing a xerox of a letter to Wells from Iris Hoatson addressed to Mrs. H.G. Wells dated March 23, 1906. This is the only related correspondence in our files in addition to the material previously sent. I am enclosing also a photostat of a letter from Wells to Mrs. Herbert Bland (E. Nesbitt."[sic] dated Aug. 3, 1905. This is from the library of Yale University..."