BIB_ID
299652
Accession number
MA 2009.6
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Display Date
1895 Sept. 3.
Credit line
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 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 "Holehird, / Windermere."
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 "Holehird, / Windermere."
Provenance
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell in 1959.
Summary
Thanking him for a letter and noting that she is very glad to hear that he can walk about again. Discussing her stay in Windermere, mentioning a family of pigs and other animals. Recounting a ferry trip across the lake to visit Cousin Edith and her son. Mentioning that her rabbit has grown fat and that she takes him for walks "with a collar for fear he should run away." Illustrated with sketches of animals, a sailboat and bridge, a ferry boat crossing the lake, a frightened donkey, and Potter walking her rabbit.
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