Item Info

Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

 Date taken from postmarks on front and back of envelope. Front postmark from Earl's Court, S.W. i.e., the envelope was posted near Miss Potter's family home in London, Number Two, Bolton Gardens, Little letters written and signed as if by various of Miss Potter's animal characters, each shaped and folded to represent an envelope, with a tiny stamp drawn in red. Salutation: Dear Madame. Signed: B. Bunny. "My wife Mrs Flopsy Bunny has replied to your inquiries, because Miss Potter will attend to nothing but hatching spring chickens; there is another hatch chipping this evening. And she is supposed to be doing a Book, about us and the Fox; but she does not get on; neither has she answered all her Xmas letters yet. Yrs"

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1912
Call Number: RBD BP ALS M736
Creator Name: Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943 - Author