April 17, 1898, page 5

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Beatrix Potter
1866–1943

Autograph letter signed, Sidmouth, to Noel Moore, April 17, 1898

April 17, 1898

Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959

MA 2009.4
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One of Potter's last publications, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930), contains story ideas that first appeared in her picture letters of the 1890s.

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Miss Hayward keeps the house, but it really does belong to Stumpy, it is quite a pretty story.

Once upon a time there was an old clergyman, who had no family, and Stumpy was