Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1904 - 1905
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pencil
Measurements
1 sheet (Extent)
Order this imageCollection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242235.44
Summary
Loose sheet from the manuscript dummy HIL.R.34 containining rough drafts of two rhymes, written on a sheet of headed note paper of C Farlow and Co Ltd, Manufacturers. The sheet was slipped in between pages 72 and 73 of the dummy book. I've read that Tommy Tittlemouse/ Lived in a very little house -/ ...Lined with hay and thatched with moss,/ Pegged down with willow twigs across;/ Now was not that a charming house/ For little Tommy Tittlemouse? There was an old snail with a nest -/ Who very great terror expressed,/ Lest the wood lice [slaters] all round/ In the cracks underground/ Should eat up the eggs in that nest!/ Her days and her nights were oppressed,/ -But soon all her fears were at rest;/ For eleven young snails,/ With extremely short tails,/ Hatched out of the eggs in that nest. See also HIL.R.34, the dummy book; HIL.R.34.1 - HIL.R.34.43 and HIL.R.34.45 - HIL.R.34.49, further rhymes and illustrations.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer