Box 2

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Year is inferred by a pencil notation from the researcher, likely Doris Langley Moore based on the handwriting.

"Dear Mrs Moore, I have just heard from Hildegarde Hawthorne and send her latest address..."

"Dear Mrs Moore, As Mr. Tucker told me just recently that there seemed to be some difficulty about E. Nesbit and the R.C. Church, I mentioned it to her oldest friend (in a letter) She does not remember the date but has "some recollection of her going into Retreat at the Brompton Oratory, she thinks". Perhaps you..."

Writer misidentifies Nesbit as a man, likely because of her tendency to use her first initial in her professional name.

"Dear Mrs Langley Moore Please forgive my writing in pencil - my pen, as E. Nesbit was fond of saying, "refuses its offers" - At long last, through a most unhappy condition, I am at long last able to give you the tale of my long and close association with E.N..."

"Dear Madam, The enclosed envelope should give full explanation of the delay in my answering your letter of the 5th inst. I much regret this especially as I am quite unable to grant an interview or to help you in respect of my dearest friend, companion in work and play, during our young womanhood..."

Photocopy of the original letter.

Hoatson wrote this letter in her capacity as the Assistant Secretary of the Fabian Society.

Photocopy of the original letter.

Photocopy of the original letter.