Midday Sun - First impressions of Nairobi in 1929 were unfavourable - 'The atmosphere is one of intrigue, suspicion, dishonesty and unkind criticism ..... The Service is underpaid, disgracefully housed, and given no encouragement to do honest work.' Governor Sir Edward Grigg, she wrote, was universally distrusted and ran the country in cahoots with two scoundrelly accomplices, Hugh Martin, the Commissioner for Lands, heavily in debt, of dubious honesty and seldom sober, and Griggs private secretary, Eric Dutton, a devious plotter.

The Moores had come from Nigeria, where things were much better ordered. .............. 'Daphne Moore was ....... like an asp, at least as regards her tongue. She was intelligent, well-read, and had considerable talent as a sculptor. I [Elspeth Huxley] found her alarming, and others felt the same, but her hiss was worse than her bite. Like most colonial civil servants posted to Kenya, the Moores had been warned against the wiles of the wicked settlers and advised to keep them at arms length. At first they followed this advice faithfully, but as time went on her reactions became less prickly and she wrote: 'We are not likely to get into the pockets of the settlers, but it seems silly to both of us to take up a snooty attitude to them socially; it doesn't help matters officially for one thing.' ...........…..

She attended a dance at Government House in honour of the Neville Chamberlains, but they got stuck on the plains and failed to arrive; meanwhile Tich Miles, the senior aide-de-camp, had invited all the people normally barred from Government House on moral grounds, and a good time was had by all.

Nicholls - Daphne Moore, the wife of H.M. Moore, Sir Edward Denham's successor as Kenya's Colonial (Chief) Secretary in 1929, deplored the business of 'calling' - We paid 16, which brings the number I have returned to 74. There are about 60 now outstanding. Several people were in, damn them. Other we saw afar off and gave them time to burrow into the flower-beds or hide behind the sink. One says "Hodi!" [is anyone in?] under one's breath and then throws the cards into the spitoon [sic] and runs.'

Nicholls - The witty and rather wicked Daphne Moore (her private comments on others were always funny but rather cruel - she said the wife of Sidney Fazan, PC at Kisumu, always reminded her of a wicker wastepaper basket which had not been emptied) threw herself with verve into overseeing all women's organisations, though she was sorely tried by infighting and the actions of Mrs A. Turner. She also tried to curb in Government House the 'blatant extravagances' introduced by the Brooke-Pophams.

Oscar - an exceptionally able woman - artistic, musical, an excellent horsewoman, a good shot and, what was even rarer in those days, a good driver who knew her way around the inside of a car.

She was vice president of the League of Mercy, president of the YWCA management committee, vice president and chairman of the women’s section of the British Legion, member of the Lady Grigg Nurses’ Institute, vice president of the Arts and Crafts Society, vice president of the Race Improvement Society, and executive member of the Girl Guides, and a committee member of the Children's Holiday Camp. On her arrival in Kenya in 1929 she was Acting Commissioner of the Kenya Girl Guides for about 18 months, and she was also a member of the committee of the Lady Grigg Native Maternity Home.