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Written by Bondfield's personal secretary, Alice M. Holmes, to let Moore know that Bondfield had just left town for a vacation.

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Correspondence from A.J.A. Symons, editor of the periodical.

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Correspondence from A.J.A. Symons, editor of the periodical.

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Originally attached was the Bossom book list, which was separated from the letter and rehoused into Series 3: Biographers' Research Notes with Briggs's bibliography lists.

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"Dear Mr. Tucker, I cannot tell you how much pleasure your very kind letter has given me; I do remember our pleasant day together and how you took us from one place [?] to the other. I would be very proud and glad to meet Mrs. Tucker..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, Since the coincidence of our meeting at Raphael House I have talked over with my sister the days at Lee when we knew E. Nesbit and family. Here are a few reminiscences which you make like..."

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"Dear Miss Briggs, I am so sorry to be slow in replying to your card of Sept 17th and in acknowledging the safe return of Geoffrey Kitchener's [?] booklets..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I received the "Biography of E. Nesbit" this morning and thank you very much indeed for being so kind as to send me a copy..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, I have received the parcel of books and photographs you returned to me a few days ago. Thank you. I am looking forward to seeing the Book about "E. Nesbit" - you must have taken a great deal of trouble over it, and I thank you very much for the promise of a copy..."

Scope and Contents "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...