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Beatrix Potter Letter to Bertha Mahony Miller (December 13, 1934)

  Castle Cottage Sawrey Nr. Ambleside Dec 13. 34 Dear Mrs. Miller I have just been reading again your most interesting letter of Jan 30 — never answered by me yet. I think time slips away faster and faster as one grows older — partly because this person when tired falls...

Book Notes from Greenaway House (November 1928)

The Brownie has had our house all to himself for ever so long, for Wendy and I have been away. We went to a lovely place down by the sea where we learned to swim, and now if you come to see us you’ll find that we’re not the children...

Beatrix Potter Letter to Bertha E. Mahony (May 20, 1927)

  May 20. 27   Sawrey Nr Ambleside   Dear Miss Bertha Mahony, Some months ago the Horn Book contained a paragraph relating how the writer and illustrator of the “Peter Rabbit” books lived in the district of the Westmorland Lakes in the north of England. Peter Rabbit is not...

Alice-Heidi’s Secrets (June 1926)

Scene: Sitting-room of Alice-Heidi’s House Alice-Heidi: (enters from hall) O dear! O dear! That child Wendy has left all the scrapbooks all over the floor! She is a nice child to have around, but I do wish she would remember to pick up the things she plays with. Wendy! Wendy!...

Alice-Heidi’s Secrets (March 1926)

One day, just about Christmas time, I saw a new “Peter Rabbit” greeting card. It was Peter Rabbit himself, probably, and one of the Flopsy bunnies under a big green umbrella returning from the post office. It was snowing hard but they were tucked quite cosily under their umbrella and...

Alice-Heidi’s Secrets (November 1925)

It was just a year ago that I was so excited over my new house, but last year’s excitement was nothing compared to the adventure I have had this year. You would never be able to guess about it, so I shall have to tell you. It happened on Hallowe’en...

Alice-Heidi’s Secrets (June 1925)

This being a visitor’s number, I think it only right and proper that something should be said about my visitors. I have a great many, but I am going to tell you about just two or three of them.  First of all, there are two small boys. They have light...

Alice-Heidi’s Secrets (March 1925)

My secret this time has something to do with fairy godmothers, because I have just been reading about the Princess Alicia and the Fairy Godmother in “The Magic Fishbone” by Charles Dickens, only the Fairy Godmother in this book is called “the Fairy Grandmarina” — I like the sound of...

Alice-Heidi’s Secrets (November 1924)

When at home alone I sit, I never seem to tire of it. I only have to take a look Along the shelves and choose a book, And every two times out of three, I choose the “Little Library.” The books are little, green and blue, And there are orange...
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