BIB_ID
299639
Accession number
MA 2009.4
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Display Date
1898 Apr. 17.
Credit line
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18.2 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 from "Cottymeade. Sidmouth."
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 from "Cottymeade. Sidmouth."
Provenance
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell in 1959.
Summary
Thanking him for a letter, stating that she was "so glad" to hear that Noel and his mother "came away for a holiday." Describing her visit to Sidmouth, noting that her brother "sleeps in a cottage belonging to a dog called "Stumpy."" Describing the dog as "such a polite grave gentleman but so proud!" Giving a story about Stumpy, beginning "Once upon a time there was an old clergyman, who had no family, and Stumpy was his dog, and Miss Hayward was his servant, and so when he died he left his money to Stumpy, ten shillings a week for the rest of his life!" Illustrating her accounts of Stumpy with numerous sketches.
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