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"Dear Mrs Moore, In reply to your letter of the 19th - it was Mrs. Nesbit who was twice married. Her first husband was a Mr. Green and [Sarelta?] was the only child of that marriage, so far as I know..."

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"Many thanks - I have received the letters..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I received your letter last week before leaving London. In reply to it, I was aware that some of the letters of "E. Nesbit" were incomplete, but I am sorry to say that they are the only letters of hers I possess and I do not think the letters would be of any use to you..."

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"Dear Madam, In reply to your letter of May 5th I shall be pleased if you can call here on Tuesday afternoon next..."

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"Dear Julia Briggs, Thank you for phoning and thank you especially for being willing to undertake this afterword for us. I enclose the text of The Three Mothers. It first appeared in the Strand Magazine, the date to be obtained from Mrs. McCarthy of the Nesbit Society sometime after next weekend - I'll let you know..."

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Photocopy of a handwritten letter.

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"Dear Sir, You may remember that I and two friends invaded your office about a fortnight ago, looking for the family graves of the Blands, and particularly of Hubert. I was puzzled because we couldn't find the record of his mother, Mary Anne Bland's burial. I have no found the exact date of her death - August 1893 - (I'm afraid I was looking earlier than this)..."

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"Dear Mrs Bossom, Three years ago I bought an E. Nesbit book from you, and I have just found the list of books that you kindly send me then. I am now half-way through writing my own account of E. Nesbit (rather interrupted by various other obligations), and when I found the list you had sent me, I wondered whether you had sold your copies of In Homespun, and The Literary Sense..."

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"Dear Mrs Nixon, Thank you so much for your generous and delightful hospitality last weekend. I'm afraid I was very far from the ideal guest, with my nose stuck in your various fascinating pieces, but it was most kind of you to bea rwith me and so generously show me your collection - it is peculiarly fascinating, when one has been working away at the material so long to find such things as Mavis Carter's scrapbook, so exactly as she described it..."

Scope and Contents Dear Mr. Merry, Thank you so much for your kind and prompt reply to my enquiry about The Butler in Bohemia. I am glad, at any rate, that Drane turned out to be operating in London, rather than from the Content, as I had feared. As for "Jackson", it is a little mystifying - certainly Barron wrote only historical and archaeological papers under his own name. He wrote for the "Evening News" as "The Londoner." But E. Nesbit was also friendly with a lithographer called Ernest Jackson, so I...