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"Dear Julia, Your letter received this morning was very gratifying and made me more eager than ever to see you here, but now we have reached Christmas week - a period about which my feelings are absolutely pro-Scrooge - I have to postpone making any definite appointment..."

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"Dear Mrs Briggs, I write with difficulty because my hands, my typewriter, and my spectacles are all out of order, so prepare for errors. It was true I was in pain when you and William made your otherwise very agreeable visit here. I have now had the report of an X-ray and it seems that my spine, besides having osteo-arthritis, is tending to crumble for the want of chalk, so now I await instructions for coping with this..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Briggs, So many people who are asking a favour of a stranger "begin with an apology" but so few make it easy to reply by sending a stamped addressed envelope. Your letter comes at a time when I am coping with immense and most undesirable plans for alteration of the Museum of Costume founded by me in Bath - which are occasioning a great deal of letter-writing; when I am trying to get my last book to press despite perpetual interruptions; and when I am beginning work with a temporary...

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