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Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Powell, You are kind to have taken so much trouble. The family trees are fascinating - especially the Nesbit-Pariss link - so much so, that there were one or two other questions that I'd like to ask, although I feel I've trepsassed on your time enough already. Thanmk you also for the Australian material - I guessed that something of the sort had happened between Ada Breakell and Henry Nesbit, but Doris Langley Moore says nothing about it - it was very hard to understand, otherwise,...

Scope and Contents "Dear Selwyn, I've now laid hands on Kirkpatrick's bibliography and am mightily clearer on one or two points, though I would stil like to know the sources of some of the material there, especially the play listings. Though the critical material is by DLM, I am very doubtful that she wrote the bibliography since, as you know, it embodies quite a list of new material of the sort she wouldn't have been capable of finding by 1978 (she is a very frail and tottery old lady) - if ever (she was...

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Draft of a handwritten letter, unsigned, with most of the text crossed out.

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Written by Dr. C.J. Wright, Research Assistant.

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Written by Dr. C.J. Wright, Research Assistant.

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Written by Dr. A. Raspin.

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"Dear Madam, I have searched our registers and can find no entry of Mrs Bland's baptism or indeed anything about her. She could not have really made a retreat here because we never give retreats. She would of course have been instructed before her reception into the church and it is impossible this is what is meant..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, Your [just wonderful?] Thank you so much for it. I think you were a little serious when you came in..."

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"Dear Madam, THank you for your letter. I [...] any morning this coming week at about 11..."

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"Dear Madam, I have read your letter in The Times this morning, and I bother you with this to tell you that for some three or four years I saw a good deal of Mrs Nesbit Bland..."