Beatrix Potter
1866–1943
Autograph letter signed, Sidmouth, to Noel Moore, April 17, 1898
April 17, 1898
MA 2009.4
Gift of Colonel David McC. McKell, 1959
Transcription
Miss Hayward keeps the house, but it really does belong to Stumpy, it is quite a pretty story.
Once upon a time there was an old clergyman, who had no family, and Stumpy was
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One of Potter's last publications, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930), contains story ideas that first appeared in her picture letters of the 1890s.