BIB_ID
299653
Accession number
MA 2009.7
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Display Date
1896 Apr. 6.
Credit line
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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 "2, Bolton Gardens."
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 "2, Bolton Gardens."
Provenance
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell in 1959.
Summary
Thanking him for a letter and wishing she could see him riding the big dog. Giving a sketch of Tom Thumb riding a mouse. Mentioning that she is going to Swanage next Monday, and referencing his trip to Felixtowe. Describing a visit to the zoo, noting that the big elephant is dead and that "it is going to be put in the museum." Mentioning the hyacinths in her garden, and noting that the "sparrows are naughty, they pull off the flowers." Noting that they build their nests in the gutter and that the Potters do not like this because the little birds fall onto their door-steps. Illustrated with sketches of bunnies, Tom Thumb on a mouse, a sick elephant crying in an armchair, a ferocious lion and sparrows.
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