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"Darling Auntie Mouse - I am sending you a diary to life of to [rumintal?] Pepys and hope is continue look it..."

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"Dear and dearest E.N. I am sending this look a either to Aunty Mouse and a diary which I hope will entertain you and which profore to continue..."

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"Dear Madam: I have your letter of the 19th inst. and am glad to hear that you are writing THE LIFE OF E. NISBETT[sic]. I had the pleasure of knowing this lady for many years. In the first instance she painted designs, which we published; that was very many years ago. She also wrote a great many stories for us and several books..."

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"Dear Madam, I have written a letter book about Mr. Bernard Shaw which is published by Messrs Dckworth. I wrote to ask for your permission to draw upon the Shaw material in your Life of E. Nesbit, including the reproduction of parts of the communications from Mr. Shaw:..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs E Nesbit Kenneth and I feel we must write to you to tell you how much we like your books. When we were very little our Nurse and Mother used to read them aloud to us, but we never appreacheated (we can't spell it, and Mother does not know we are writing so she cant help us.) them so much as we do now. We love the treasure-tales. We have hunted all over the house for treasure and got into a beastly row because we went into the forbidden room to look, and there are no boards down as...

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"Dear Madam, In reply to your favour of the 31st ult., I am sorry that I cannot give you any information regarding the late Adeline Sergeant, as I cannot trace that any of this lady's books have been on our catalogue..."

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"Dear Miss Langley Moore, I was very pleased to receive your letter, so kindly welcoming my few reminiscences of E. Nesbit! I wrote them in rather a whirl, being in the midst of preparations for my daughters' wedding..."

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"Dear Miss Langley Moore, I have just re-read, in the pages of your Biography of E. Nesbit (your presentation copy to Rosamund, but to me), the most vivid memories of a few years of my life - the years that I was an obscure though almost weekly frequenter of Well Hall..."

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"Dear Mrs Nesbit, I have read nearly all of your beautiful books for children, and love every one of them, but the one I love the very best of all is The Phoenix and the Carpet. Please do you think one day you could be so very kind as to write another book about Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane with the Phoenix..."

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"Dear Mrs. Langley Moore, May I congratulate you on your sympathetic study of the life of E. Nesbit - It is hard to believe that you never knew her personally. Thank you for your acknowledgment of my slight help, in your preface. I think the Blands must have kept on the Dymchurch house after 1911 though, as I have a copy of "Fear" given by her to my daughter..."