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"Dear Mrs Bland. These are quite the best verses of yours which I have ever read. Had I a journal I should be pleased indeed to print them. I do not think them faultless - far from it. But they are vicis (sic) [parenthetical notation from the original transcriber--possibly the word is supposed to be vicious?] - they have heart and passion; and I congratulate you..."

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Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Please may the comparative stranger congratulate you ardently on your most excellent doing of E. Nesbit's Life, which I have just bought and read, with delight first over its general management and technical performance, the difficulties of which I can appreciate somewhat, and then a good deal of sadness when I reflect how [?] beads and laughter and incessant cigarettes hindered my helping a brave woman with the little aids I might have increased in the Neolithic...

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"Dear Mrs Moore. As you know [?] Barron's wishes, I think it would be absured of me to pretend that you have not guessed right..."

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore - Yes, Oswald Bastable was, and is, a real persona, a journalist of considerable repute. Mrs Bland told me his name, in confidence at the time, and that he did not desire it known, as he considered it might prejudice him in his ordinary work. But this is so long ago that he might not now mind revelation of youthful indiscretions..."

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"Dear Mrs. Moore - From the wreck of my move long ago I find 2 copies (of Neolith 1 and 4), which I am very glad to be able to send you, still presentable though not too ungrubby or intractable..."

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"I am glad you can manage 28th May at Bedford Square..."

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"Dear Madam - If you have not left town before Thursday 28 May, I should be very happy to meet you at the First Edition Club, 17 Bedford Square, between 3 and 4 p.m. that day..."