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"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.

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

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"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..."

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"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..."

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"Dear Madam I knew Mrs Bland fairly intimately from 1890 to about 1894 as we lived opposite one another at Lee, in Birch Grove. It was an unusual and arresting household consisting of herself, her husband, Miss Alice Hoatson, and 4 children: Paul, Iris, Fabian, and Rosamund..."

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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...