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Moore, George and Pearl Craigie [pseud. John Oliver Hobbes]. GROUP OF MATERIAL RELATING TO THEIR THEATRICAL COLLABORATIONS AND QUARRELS, INCLUDING: i) letters to Pearl Craigie's father and biographer, John Morgan Richards, including c.40 by George Moore (1906-1916, mostly about the possible production and publication of 'The Three Lovers', on which he and Pearl Craigie had collaborated, and asking Richards not to speak of Journeys End in Lovers Meeting, "for if you do I shall have to explain how my name was taken off that play by Mrs Craigie without any authority from me") and five by Edmund Gosse (1908) ii) letters to Pearl Craigie, including two by George Moore (one of them about his comedy The Coming of Gabrielle: "...I don't think that your writing mixes with mine naturally and I am of opinion that two people cannot write a play...My dear Pearl, don't think that I did not admire your writing: I do, but not in the midst of mine...", [1904]), five by Edmund Gosse (1899-1902, commenting, for example, on her novel Love and the Soul Hunters: "...perfectly constructed...It is pure comedy, as fine and delicate and right as anyone has written in our time. Comedy is romance. You take high impossible (but not incredible) beings of full flushed lives, and make them dance to your music...your comic detail is immense..."), one by J.M. Barrie (1898: "I have seldom looked forward to a play with as high hopes, these because of the pleasure your work has given me..."), one by Max Beerbohm and three by Ellen Terry iii) drafts of complete acts for Moore's and Craigie's collaborations for the stage (mostly the play The Coming of Gabrielle, later revised under the title Elizabeth Cooper), comprising hundreds of autograph and typescript pages by both writers; together with related fragmentary material, including copies of letters, essays and articles