Potter, Beatrix. A COLLECTION OF TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, ONE POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPH AND THREE I.C.A.A. GREETINGS CARDS FOR CARRIE HALPIN, COMPRISING: i) autograph letter signed ("Beatrix Heelis") enquiring about Carrie Halpin's son and reminiscing about Carrie's brothers ("I wonder if your boy is like your brothers – I always remember the younger up a tree in the shrubbery taking pot shots at Cousin Annie Hutton's hens!"), and describing the weather ("...we have kept well here in spite of vagaries of climate – the drought was never troublesome, but it has been raining most of the time since August. Today at last we have some sunshine, and Willie has taken a day off for shooting...") (2 pages, 8vo, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, 20 December 1934); ii) autograph letter signed ("Beatrix Heelis") on the war ("...another year gone, and still war; it seems to be on the turn at last. We keep fairly comfortable here – it's a great help to have plenty of firewood and what is called "a domestic pig" – a pig that may be fed and killed by licence, for the use of the house") and her health ("I got bronchitis rather badly in September, and when I go out in bad weather I get a wheezing like an old sheep at nights. We all have to grow old – I am 77 – if I don't throw if off I must just stay indoors till Spring...") (2 pages, 8vo, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, 2 December 1943), letters slightly spotted with creases; iii) postcard photograph of Hill Top, Sawrey annotated on the reverse by beatrix potter "tom kitten's house!", 88 by 138mm.; iv) I.C.A.A. Greetings Card [Jemima Puddle-Duck talking to Peter Rabbit] [1934], inscribed from "Beatrix Potter" to "Carrie Halpin" and dated "Christmas 1934", [V&A 1804], some spotting; v) I.C.A.A. Greetings Card [Peter Rabbit as a Postman] [1935], inscribed from "Beatrix Potter" to "Carrie Halpin" and dated "Christmas 1935" together with I.C.A.A. slip with details added in Potter's hand regarding the obtaining of cards and their price, [V&A 1807], some spotting and creases; vi) I.C.A.A. Greetings Card [Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny outside Hill Top] [1936], inscribed from "Beatrix Potter" to "Carrie Halpin" and dated "with love – Nov. 1936", [V&A 1808], some spotting
Potter, Beatrix. A COLLECTION OF TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, ONE POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPH AND THREE I.C.A.A. GREETINGS CARDS FOR CARRIE HALPIN, COMPRISING: i) autograph letter signed ("Beatrix Heelis") enquiring about Carrie Halpin's son and reminiscing about Carrie's brothers ("I wonder if your boy is like your brothers – I always remember the younger up a tree in the shrubbery taking pot shots at Cousin Annie Hutton's hens!"), and describing the weather ("...we have kept well here in spite of vagaries of climate – the drought was never troublesome, but it has been raining most of the time since August. Today at last we have some sunshine, and Willie has taken a day off for shooting...") (2 pages, 8vo, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, 20 December 1934); ii) autograph letter signed ("Beatrix Heelis") on the war ("...another year gone, and still war; it seems to be on the turn at last. We keep fairly comfortable here – it's a great help to have plenty of firewood and what is called "a domestic pig" – a pig that may be fed and killed by licence, for the use of the house") and her health ("I got bronchitis rather badly in September, and when I go out in bad weather I get a wheezing like an old sheep at nights. We all have to grow old – I am 77 – if I don't throw if off I must just stay indoors till Spring...") (2 pages, 8vo, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, 2 December 1943), letters slightly spotted with creases; iii) postcard photograph of Hill Top, Sawrey annotated on the reverse by beatrix potter "tom kitten's house!", 88 by 138mm.; iv) I.C.A.A. Greetings Card [Jemima Puddle-Duck talking to Peter Rabbit] [1934], inscribed from "Beatrix Potter" to "Carrie Halpin" and dated "Christmas 1934", [V&A 1804], some spotting; v) I.C.A.A. Greetings Card [Peter Rabbit as a Postman] [1935], inscribed from "Beatrix Potter" to "Carrie Halpin" and dated "Christmas 1935" together with I.C.A.A. slip with details added in Potter's hand regarding the obtaining of cards and their price, [V&A 1807], some spotting and creases; vi) I.C.A.A. Greetings Card [Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny outside Hill Top] [1936], inscribed from "Beatrix Potter" to "Carrie Halpin" and dated "with love – Nov. 1936", [V&A 1808], some spotting
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