Box 1

"Dear Madam, Having observed your letter in the T.L.S. of 14/5/31 (but being too pressed at that time to pursue the matter) I should like to know whether you still require reminiscences of E. Nesbit?..."

Typewritten letter that reads like stream-of-consciousness or some kind of art piece.

Unclear who the creator was, but this was housed among Russell Green's papers generally and contains handwriting samples similar to his signature.

"Dear Madam, I am preparing an Anthology of poems and passages on the Daisy and I shall be very greatly indebted to you if you will be so good as to grant me permission to include several stanzas from your works - particularly a poem beginning..."

"Dear Mrs Moore I read the Nesbit book - Hubert had it down here for review last week-end - and I do think you have done it all awfully well. One restraint keeping your own strong personality [right?] in the background and the delicate way you have handled some of the facts fill me with admiration..."

"Dear Mrs Moore - Yes, please arrange the description in any way that suits you best - but I must ask you once again to leave out my name. It can have no value here..."

"Dear Mrs Moore, It's difficult to know how E. Nesbit regarded her serious work. She gave me "The Red House" her most successful novel saying "If you like that sort of stuff it's just the sort of stuff you'll like" "Don't read it because you know me. Try it on your cook." This book was rather a new kind then, and people did like it..."

Due to the filing system Doris Langley Moore kept, these letters are glued together in a manner that is impossible to separate without permanent damage.

"My dear Doris How extremely pleasant to get a letter from you once again. If you had added - "I must see my publisher, I have a little London Society, so I'd like to come up to stay with you for a week" Owen and I would have been delighted as we have shouted the news from my bed to his. However, as you say, these be idle dreams..."

"I saw Marsh (who has the book) yesterday. He is just recovering from a slight stroke. He seems very feeble..."

"Dear Doris Many thanks for your nice letter on The Play. I shall enjoy reading this. S.G. Ritchie was a Fellow of Jesus Oxford. He was a member of the Fabian and of the Oxford Branch. He wrote a book on Socialism. A sweep was an open-air speaker for the Oxford Fabians..."