Envelope
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Measurements
81 x 105 mm
Place of origin
Bailey
Collection
Beatrix Potter Gallery, Cumbria
NT 242635.2
Summary
Envelope for a letter from Beatrix Potter to Joseph Moscrop, shepherd to Beatrix Potter at Troutbeck Park Farm from 1926. Dated 16 November 1942. 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 J Moscrop, The Cottage, Bailey, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. It has a blue postage stamp and is dated Nov 16. 42. It has been torn along the top edge.
Makers and roles
Beatrix Potter (London 1866 - Near Sawrey, Cumbria 1943), writer Joseph Moscrop (fl.1926-1943), recipient