{"product_id":"2021063aeee","title":"Beatrix Potter Autograph Letter Signed","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePOTTER, Beatrix. \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAutograph Letter Signed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Single sheet (7¾” x 6”) written on both sides and folded in half. Some light staining at bottom edge, sheet lightly aged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe letter reads as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Jan. 21, [19]12\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Dear Phyllis,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou have written me such a dear little letter about Fluffy. I feel quite sad to disappoint you – I have begun another book about the fox! If I can do another book that Fluffy can come in to – I promise to remember him and ask for his picture again. You don't know what heaps of letters I get from all over the world, and so many of them want a book about some special animal. There was a letter lately from a child in Wales who wants a book about a crocodile called Amelia! That I cannot stand! Then there is a small boy in Ireland who wants to know if Jeremy Fisher ever got married. And two want moles, \u0026amp; another wants a donkey named Salome, \u0026amp; another wants a horse book, and another wants hens, \u0026amp; another wants elephants – poor Miss Potter!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFluffy is a very reasonable request by comparison. I am afraid I don't draw dogs and cats so well as mice and rabbits. Fluffy must have surprised the guests at tea at that hotel! I can imagine him going from table to table and dropping dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter Rabbit was rather clever at tricks, but he never would do any trick that required patience, like dying or begging quietly. He would jump through a hoop, or do a complicated set of backwards \u0026amp; forwards jumps, but he never would sit up properly still. He played the tambourine very grand, both scuffling on it with his claws \u0026amp; shaking the bells. But he was not such a character as Bounce (or Benjamin Bouncer). My last rabbit was called Joseph, he lived to be 9 or 10; I don't intend to get another; I was always expecting Kep [Potter’s dog] to kill him! I was rather thankful poor Joseph died peacefully. I have cocks and hens at present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI remain, dear Phyllis, yrs aff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeatrix Potter\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe mention that her next book being about the fox is a reference to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Tale of Mr. Tod\u003c\/em\u003e, issued in October 1912. In another Potter letter, sold at Sotheby’s in 2014, the author mentions “A little girl sent me ‘Fluffy’-dog’s photo by the same post…” which clearly references this letter. And in Judy Taylor’s Letters to Children on p. 141, she records a letter Potter wrote as Jeremy Fisher to Andrew Fayle of Dublin, replying that he is not married (perhaps the letter referred to in this correspondence). A wonderful piece of ephemera from the author of the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e books, showing her gentle affection for her young readers and her genuine love of her many small pets. And, of course, it includes a wonderful reference to Ms. Potter’s own rabbit who was the\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e true \u003c\/em\u003ePeter Rabbit. A wonderful treasure for any Potter collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books of Wonder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39284657618986,"sku":"Old \u0026 Rare","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0152\/7041\/2388\/products\/IMG_5920.jpg?v=1615330752","url":"https:\/\/booksofwonder.com\/products\/2021063aeee","provider":"Books of Wonder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}