Box 1

Photocopy of the original letter. It is unclear why these letters are included with the collection, and may have been a separate research project that Julia Briggs was working on.

Photocopy of the original letter. It is unclear why these letters are included with the collection, and may have been a separate research project that Julia Briggs was working on.

Photocopy of the original letter. It is unclear why these letters are included with the collection, and may have been a separate research project that Julia Briggs was working on.

Photocopy of the original letter. It is unclear why these letters are included with the collection, and may have been a separate research project that Julia Briggs was working on.

Photocopy of the original letter. It is unclear why these letters are included with the collection, and may have been a separate research project that Julia Briggs was working on.

Also notable is Calder-Marshall's system of writing dates. He may have been using the Soviet Calendar, which dropped 2 weeks from February 1918.

Photocopy of the original letter. It is unclear why these letters are included with the collection, and may have been a separate research project that Julia Briggs was working on.

Note that this letter was written by Arthur Calder-Marshall Jr. and not his father, as all other letters in this folder were.

"Dear Miss Moore, I'm now working, and for the time being, living in Sutton by anything sent to the Egg Shop always still reaches me. The serial E.N. referred to came out in a Daily Paper - I believe the 'Daily Sketch'..."

"The E. Nesbit Biography I have many of dear E.N.'s delightful letters written to me in childhood and later years - besides those she dictated from her bed at the end. I also have my little diary of the first time I met her as a little girl of thirteen..."

"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Please forgive such a vast bulk of ink and paper - but I found my pen ran away with me - I have put down as much as I can remember - also I send the copy of the diary as regards Lewis Carroll - I never remember E.N. saying anything about him except that Cecily was right to like "Alice" better than any of her stuff..."