Letter to Joseph Moscrop
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
14 Jun 1926
Materials
Ink, Paper
Place of origin
Allanwater
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242589
Summary
Letter from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop, shepherd to Beatrix Potter at Troutbeck Park Farm from 1926. Dated 14 June 1926, the letter concerns her disappointment not to have visited Hadrian's Wall and the country between Carlisle and Hexham; many shearlings and hoggs at Sawrey, but not yet many at Troutbeck; Hislop, the new farm manager, and the sad state of Troutbeck Park farm on taking it over - bogs and broken fences; Galloway cattle; stray sheep from the adjoining property belonging to the Leake family; Troutbeck Park very hard work for dogs; Beatrix wanting a dog for company and possibly to buy one (Mandie) from Joseph; problem with rats; liver fluke a problem in ewes. Part of a collection of letters, Beatrix Potter's Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop, edited and transcribed by Judy Taylor and published (1988) as 'Beatrix Potter's Farming Friendship, Lake District Letters to Joseph Moscrop 1926-1943.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer Joseph Moscrop (fl.1926-1943), recipient