Box 2

"Dear Mrs Moore Thank you very much for your letter - and more nice things! Well, regarding the Bland methods - all the extracts from her stories sent to me were in her own handwriting always and gave enough facts for me to go upon: But she only did this if the instalments[sic] were late which as you know - they usually were..."

"Dear Mrs Moore Many thanks for your letter: I am coming up to Macmillans on Wednesday aft. next: so I will take the opportunity to see you at the Forum; about 4.?..."

"Dear Madam After a long search I have managed to collect the enclosed letters. I am sorry they are so few: out of so many I gave away a large number of E. Nesbit's letters to her 'FANS': they were in great demand, and then the coming of the war scattered my belongings over the face of the earth - so it seemed..."

"Dear Madam Thank you for your very appreciative letter, which is safely to hand via my agents..."

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

"Dear Mrs Langley Moore I am afraid I never knew E. Nesbit personally. I only wish I had. I wrote to her and sent her one of my first books, and hoped to meet her, but she was dying then..."

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Letters were sent together. Daphne Mockford was the mother of John Mockford.

"Dear Mrs Moore How nice that you are in Town again! I do hope to be up soon..."

"Thanks much for [?] I am now at house as above and fear I shall not be in Town for the next week or so - probably not until September..."

"Dear Madam I think Mrs Bland used her own children as models for the children's books she brought out after the [?] from life - She was then publishing her poems..."