BIB_ID
299660
Accession number
MA 2009.9
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Display Date
1897 Feb. 27.
Credit line
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
A letter to Noel of 13 February 1897 contained the first half of Lear's poem. It was sold at auction in 1947.--Cf. Taylor, p. 44.
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."
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."
Provenance
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell in 1959.
Summary
Saying she is sorry to hear about "what a bad time" he has been having, and instructing him to "get better now." Hoping to visit soon, and illustrating the second half of Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" (beginning "They sailed away").
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