BIB_ID
299636
Accession number
MA 2009.3
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Display Date
1895 Mar. 8.
Credit line
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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 stationery stamped "2, Bolton Gardens, / London, S.W."
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 stationery stamped "2, Bolton Gardens, / London, S.W."
Provenance
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell in 1959.
Summary
Regretting to hear that Noel is ill, noting that he must be like "this little mouse" and giving a sketch of a bedridden mouse, a Dr. Mole and a Nurse Mouse. Hoping that "the little mouse will soon be able to sit up in a chair by the fire," and giving an accompanying sketch. Recounting her recent trip to the zoo, describing a recently arrived young giraffe, a monkey called Jenny, an elephant, ostriches, "a black bear rolling on its back," and mentioning that she "did not know that the old wolf was so good tempered." Illustrating the letter with many additional sketches of zoo animals.
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