Box 2

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Photocopy of the original letter.

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"Dear Mrs. Bland, I hope you are bounding with good health and energy! This summer was very hectic: the stomach disorder took some time to clear up and to add to the excitement Mrs. Doris Langley Moore cut up rough about the programme. Dear Maurice warded her off, I suppose he used his superabundant Irish charm and he is now very pleased with himself..."

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"Dear Mrs Bland, I hope you are enjoying this 'long hot summer'--unfortunately most of the time I am cooped up in school, which, since it is an old monastery, the walls are over four feet thick so that the sun never penetrates to distract us. Worse luck. I think I have found you a lady who is a whizz on copyright and how to renew it. Her name is Dorothy Edwards..."

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"Dear Mrs. Bland, I hope I'm not imposing on your good nature too much in my enthusiasm, but I just thought you'd like to see a copy of Hubert Bland's Birth Certificate, as his mother's maiden name is... LACEY. So perhaps HB's sister helped her aunt run the school, or the family had shares in it?!..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Bland, I expect you have forgotten me from among your myriad visitors this summer--I'm the one writing the programme for the BBC. As promised, here is one of Hubert Bland's obituary notices from the Woolwich "Pioneer". I'm afraid my dog ate the two from the 'Sunday Chronicle's 'Evening Chronicle'-Danny has pens--Nipper archive material! The Research Assistant at [Greenwich? Greenotch?] found this particular article. She found the 'Miss Lacey' school on Woolwich Common in a...

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Original, with Kipling's signature.

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"Dear Madam, Mr Rudyard Kipling, who has just returned from abroad and is overwhelmed with arrears of correspondence, has asked me to acknowledge your letter of the 6th May, and to say in reply that he regrets he is unable to help you in regard to your forthcoming biography..."

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This is a packet of materials kept together to maintain integrity.

The handwritten note is to Julia Briggs from an assistant named Sharona.

The letter from Kipling to Nesbit is a handwritten transcription.

The reader's reports are handwritten transcriptions by H.D. Banning and E. Garnett dating to the late 1890s and seem to be reviews or book reports about several Nesbit stories.

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Transcription of the original letter.

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Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Notations from a researcher, possibly Doris Langley Moore, indicate that the contents of the letter may not be accurate.