BIB_ID
299691
Accession number
MA 2009.11
Creator
Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
Display Date
1898 Dec. 23.
Credit line
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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 "Eversfield Hotel / St. Leonards on Sea."
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 "Eversfield Hotel / St. Leonards on Sea."
Provenance
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell in 1959.
Summary
Apologizing for not having sent Christmas cards, and recounting her attempt to get some that day. Describing the sea and the ships and boats she has seen. Mentioning that "men sell quantities of fish in the streets," noting "I never saw such a mixture, all sorts of colours." Reporting that the man driving her in a chair told her that he had caught "conger eels 20 feet long" and that this made her laugh. With a few small sketches of a huge eel chasing a man from a boat, three fish rowing a boat, and a few ships on the horizon. With a postscript promising to "draw some better pictures next time."
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