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[pounds sterling]8,200 for Beatrix Potter letter.
From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20060319
Author:
A LETTER from Beatrix Potter to a young girl apologising for the quality of one of her Christmas books, The Tale Of Pigling Bland, has made [pounds sterling]8,200 at auction.
The four-page letter to six- year-old Joy Shapland featuring illustrations of pigs was expected to fetch between [pounds sterling]2,000 and [pounds sterling]2,500.
It was written by Potter in 1913 after the woman responsible for Peter Rabbit, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Jemima Puddleduck had been ill.
Potter explains that she was so poorly that 'I thought it was the last of Peter Rabbit'. She goes on: ...
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