Letter to Caroline Clark
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
15 Feb 1937
Materials
Ink, Paper
Measurements
249 x 196 mm; 1 sheet (Extent)
Place of origin
Sawrey
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242272
Summary
Letter from Beatrix Potter to Caroline Clark (nee Hutton), a cousin, dated 15 February 1937. Concerning the health of a Crompton relative, Mary, and Beatrix's opinion of osteopaths; Beatrix's feelings on growing old ('Thank God I have the seeing eye...as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough lands seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton grass where my old legs will never take me again'); purchase of a Galloway bull at Carlisle, and farming matters.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer