Letter to Joseph Moscrop
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
2 May 1927
Materials
Ink, Paper
Measurements
224 x 174 mm
Place of origin
Allanwater
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242590.1
Summary
Letter from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop, shepherd to Beatrix Potter at Troutbeck Park Farm from 1926. Dated 2 April 1927, the letter concerns new calves ('healthy and good doers, but wrong colour'); the awkwardness of the location for running a bull with herd in summer; poor start to lambing at Sawrey. The letter is mounted on card. 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