BIB_ID
299631
Accession number
MA 2009.1
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Display Date
1892 Mar. 11.
Credit line
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Part of a collection of 12 letters from Beatrix Potter to Noel and Marjorie Moore. Letters have been described individually in 12 records (MA 2009.1-12); see collection-level record for more information.
Written on mourning paper from "Falmouth Hotel."
Part of a collection of 12 letters from Beatrix Potter to Noel and Marjorie Moore. Letters have been described individually in 12 records (MA 2009.1-12); see collection-level record for more information.
Written on mourning paper from "Falmouth Hotel."
Provenance
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell in 1959.
Summary
Thanking him for a "very interesting letter" and giving an account her journey to Cornwall, noting "I have come a very long way in a puff puff to a place in Cornwall, where it is very hot." Describing an outing to a "pretty little village where the fishermen live," and mentioning that she will be "quite sorry to come away from this nice place." Illustrating the letter with sketches of a train, boats, fishermen, and animals that she has seen on her trip.
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