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Written by Gene Rinkel.

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Written by Michael Harris.

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Written by Michael Bott, keeper of archives and manuscripts.

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Due to the filing system Doris Langley Moore kept, these letters are glued together in a manner that is impossible to separate without permanent damage.

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"Dear Mrs. Bland Unfortunately I am engaged to a similar [?] on the 5th [?]. How can people have [?] homes in this weather. You should have a large [?] of cool sea water for your guests to..."

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Invitation to attend an exhibition of English illustrated books for children at the Victoria and Albert Museum, to be opened by HRH The Princess Royal [Margaret].

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Card to acknowledge the receipt of three volumes loaned to the Museum for the National Book Council exhibition.

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"Dear Madam, The Secretary of the Boys and Girls Book Week has given us notice of your kind offer to lend books for the forthcoming exhibition at this Museum. we should be very glad to have a couple of Miss Nesbit's fairy books if you would be so good as to send them. We are sufficiently provided already with examples of the work of Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway..."

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Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Scope and Contents "My dear Mrs. Moore: Adoring E. Nesbit is about the most rewarding literary passion I know. In the past month it has brought me two utterly charming letters, one from Dame Sybil Thorndike and today's, from you. If Mr. Coward weren't quite so busy a man, we might have met before. I have scoured bookshops and English publishers' catalogues trying to find out who you are! I once called your biography of E. Nesbit 'my idea of a practically perfect biography' in the Saturday Review of Literature...