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by Bertha E. Mahony"'Here’s peppermints for you, Pig-wig! Here's peppermints for you.' Pig-wig is you, Allan, and I've got peppermints at home for you." So spoke my grandnephew, Arnold, aged four years, as he came running out onto my sleeping porch, one morning this week, with the little friend who...
Castle Cottage Sawrey Ambleside Nov. 24 41 Dear Mrs. Bertha Miller, The winter’s cold and bad weather is here again. I hope it has not brought any more bronchitis to you? I have only got a cold in my nose; and let us both make good resolutions...
Chicago, Illinois26 February ’38Miss Bertha E. MahonyThe Horn BookBostonDear Miss Mahony:Thanks very much for your pleasant note.I'll be glad to write something for The Horn Book. So if you will send the copies you mentioned of back issues, I'll do my best to suggest something suitable. Some ideas come immediately...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
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