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"Dear Mr Calder-Marshall Thank you for your letter of 8 August 1988. I will certainly at the first Governing Body in Michaelmas Term raise the most interesting proposal of your archive coming here..."

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"Dear Mrs Bland. I just wanted to thank you for being so kind and helpful on Saturday. We both enjoyed our visit very much. It was most useful to us to have your impressions and for us to be able to fill in gaps in our knowledge of the story we are trying to write..."

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"Dear Mrs Briggs, If I can begin by suggesting my own products - (1) The Time Traveller, which is the biography of H.G. Wells by my wife Jeanne and myself; and (2) (appearing in April) our collected biography called The First Fabians, both from Weildenfeld and Nicolson..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Briggs, Most trails on the Blands run into the sand. Unfortunately for you Mrs Paul Bland (the last survivor) lived at Buxted, near here, and died last year. She was never able to produce any papers, and indeed I believe there was a kind of holocaust at the beginning of the war when her husband died. I think she sold some papers in America and was ashamed to tell me. She claimed that there were still some papers down at her brother's house at Dymchurch and was always promising to...

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"Dear Mrs. Bland, I am returning the letters you kindly lent me, having copied them. I hope you will feel able to take a day trip to Dymchurch with us if we get some nice weather in June..."

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"Dear Mrs. Bland, I was sorry to have missed you at the opening of the E. Nesbit Exhibition on Saturday, but I was glad to hear that you were able to go to it. I thought they had done a very nice and interesting job. I have been wondering for some time if you felt well enough for my wife and I to pay you a brief visit at some convenient time. We recently published a biography of H.G. Wells..."

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"Dear Mrs Bland It was kind of you to write so nicely,and[sic] although you claim extreme old age,we[sic] would never have guessed it from the clarity of your handwriting and the vigour of your prose..."

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"Dear Mrs. Moore, Thank you again for your letter. It is now settled that I go to London on July 1st to..."

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"Dear Mrs. Moore, Thank you very much for your kind and frank answer to my letter. I have in this last week been reading your book for the third time and I am struck afresh with the care you have taken in collecting evidence, and the truthfulness and vividness of your picture of Edith..."

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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.