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"Thank you for your note. I will come along about 10.30 on Saturday next."

Scope and Contents "My very own Darling, Thank you very much for your letters! I've had three today! Two this morning and one this afternoon; the Post is up the loop and so bloomin' [error?]. First of all, I am on shift tonight and so far as I know now I have a very good chance of coming along tomorrow night, so, unless you get a telegram to say I can't come, will you expect me when you see me and be ready to come along to W.H. any time after seven? Thank you! We had a medical inspection of all A1 men in the...

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"Dear Mr Grinling, I think that you will be sorry to hear that my father died very suddenly last Tuesday evening..."

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"I am reading "E. Nesbit" with great enjoyment and interest. You have held the balance evenly and without bias, effaced yourself, and at the same time held the reader's attention..."

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"Dear Mrs Moore, Thank you very much for your letter and for letting me see the enclosed. I thinks this reads very well indeed, and I am glad that you have been able to make such full use of the little sketch I gave you of E Nesbit as I knew her..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Moore, Thank you for your letter of yesterday's date. I am gratified you have asked me to give my recollections of 'E. Nesbit,' and give them below. If my name is mentioned in your book, will you please mention it as PETER BLUNDELL without inverted commas (as I've never let the public know this is a pen-name) and also mention that I am an engineering by profession, as to let the public think that I was a munition worker during the War instead of doing my bit in the trenches would...

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"Dear Mr. Briggs, I am writing to let you know that we have now received WEBB (Beatrice) The diary of Beatrice Webb, 1873-1943, which you suggested..."

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"Dear Ms. Briggs, Nesbit's The Butler in Bohemia is listed in the English Catalogue as 'Nesbit (E.) and Jackson - The Butler in Bohemia. Post 8VO 1s. (Canvas Library). Drane, Oct.94'. I have not been able to find more about 'Jackson' - perhaps a pen name of Barron?..."

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Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, I am so glad to know that you are writing a life of "E Nesbit". I did not know her very well, but on the few occasions on which I met her I found her most charming. I remember calling at Moat House one day when she was playing with her children. They were building a wonderful house with such immense attention to detail - no scamp work was allowed - and she identified herself so completely with the children that I also was drawn into feeling that to build that house...