Box 3

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"My dear Paul, This is to ask you whether you would mind being mentioned in the book that I am now writing of Reminiscences. I don't think I would put anything you could possibly mind but I think one ought always to ask. I am also including a sketch of your mother as I knew her, and some letters of hers to me. Skipper said it was all right with him..."

Scope and Contents "My dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Thanks so much for your kind letter returning the verses. I do indeed see how crushing were the difficulties under which you laboured, but cannot help feeling furious with the people who prevented your giving a more convincing picture. It is very illuminating that you should have tried to strike a balance and preserve a mean. These are the two things which are quite, quite impossible in any connection with our friend! You either loved her, or thought "that...

Scope and Contents "My dear Doris Langley Moore, I have been reading absorbedly the book. As you can imagine, it is of the deepest interest to me, both as her friend and as a workwoman myself. I think it is quite wonderful how you have managed to give a very vivid picture in spite of (a) your never having met her personally. (b) the difficulty of reconciling what I can imagine must have been very conflicting accounts of her, and (c) the necessity, owing no doubt to family reasons, of suppressing so very much...

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"My dear Doris Langley Moore, This is only to say that the book has arrived (late last night) and I am most touched that you should give it to me as a present..."

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"Dear Mrs. Langley-Moore, In reply to your postcard, I think Crez must have been late in May. Anyhow I know we bathe and that the fields were all golden with buttercups. This last detail is completely definite. I don't know what Arthur can be talking about when he says it was August!?..."

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"My dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Thank you so much for carefully returning my precious letters, which turned up safely this morning. I am very glad that they have turned out to be of such use. You will, won't you? let[sic] me see which of them and how you are going to use..."

Scope and Contents "My dear Mrs. Langley Moore, Herewith the E. Nesbit letters which I promised you. There do not seem to be as many as I thought, but I hope what there are will be of use. There was one of hers which I cut, in order to put up on my screen of letters about my work, which said "You always have such nice things to eat in your novels. It was a comfort to me, when subsisting on glasses of Cowlicks' Malted Horse, to read about the beautiful lunch given by Lady Day to Captain Rhos" (in my novel "Sir...

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"My dear SKIPPER - Thank you for the warm kindness shown to my boy, which I realise through his simple (not to say crude) announcement "flew to LITTLESTONE one mon.g[sic] and was given beer and sandwiches by the SKIPPER." This pleased me so much, not only because I have reached the abject phase of adoring everybody who feeds, praises, or likes my BILL, but because it made a link too with our dear "DUCHESS," who I know would instantly have called for beer..."

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Photocopy of the original letter.

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Second page is a scrap of paper with an address for Col. Ruck in Wales.