Envelope
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Measurements
94 x 120 mm
Place of origin
Townhead
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242610.2
Summary
Envelope, for a letter from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop, shepherd to Beatrix Potter at Troutbeck Park Farm from 1926. Dated 26 March 1934. 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'. Small envelope addressed to Mr Joseph Moscrop, Town Head, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. It has a red postage stamp and is dated March 26 34.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer Joseph Moscrop (fl.1926-1943), recipient