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Beatrix Potter's Jeremy Fisher surfaces in Connecticut

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From: AP Online
Date: 19980401
Author:GRAHAM HEATHCOTE Associated Press Writer

GRAHAM HEATHCOTE Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-01-1998
LONDON (AP) _ An illustrated letter by storyteller Beatrix Potter introducing her fishing frog Jeremy Fisher will be sold at auction by a Connecticut family, whose little girl rescued it from being thrown away.

The letter, on three sheets of writing paper, is expected to sell for more than $64,000 in a May 7 sale at Sotheby's.

Sotheby's sold it in 1947 for $201 as part of an auction of letters gathered by Margaret Lane, who wrote Potter's biography. The letter is believed to have been bought at that time by a private ...

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