细节
POTTER, BEATRIX. Autograph letter signed ("'Beatrix Potter'"), to "Dulcie," including a small illustration. Hill Top Farm, 18 October 1918. One page, 8vo, written on recto only, some creasing from folding. Judy Taylor, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter, (London, 1992), p. 181.
"Dulcie" was a young friend who shared Potter's interest in domesticating animals. They corresponded over the years and developed a close friendship often comparing notes on their pet friends. "She and Beatrix obviously enjoyed exchanging anecdotes about their pets and Beatrix's letters to Dulcie are particularly warm."--Taylor, p. 181.
"How very nicely you have painted it! I like Mrs. Tiggy with the clothes line, and Jemima walking with Mr. Tod is lovely!...I have 4 ducks, they are called Jemima & Rebecca, and a funny little brown runner duck is called Semolina. She made a nest, very deep - shape of a flower pot [small sketch of nest] in some rubbish under a nut bush, it was comical to see her come running for breakfast & supper as fast as she could trot, and away back to her nest. But alas! Semolina was as incapable as Jemima; she didn't change her eggs, so the bottom eggs never got warm & only the top eggs hatched. There were two children reared - Tapioca & Sago. We ate Sago as he proved to be a drake..."
"Dulcie" was a young friend who shared Potter's interest in domesticating animals. They corresponded over the years and developed a close friendship often comparing notes on their pet friends. "She and Beatrix obviously enjoyed exchanging anecdotes about their pets and Beatrix's letters to Dulcie are particularly warm."--Taylor, p. 181.
"How very nicely you have painted it! I like Mrs. Tiggy with the clothes line, and Jemima walking with Mr. Tod is lovely!...I have 4 ducks, they are called Jemima & Rebecca, and a funny little brown runner duck is called Semolina. She made a nest, very deep - shape of a flower pot [small sketch of nest] in some rubbish under a nut bush, it was comical to see her come running for breakfast & supper as fast as she could trot, and away back to her nest. But alas! Semolina was as incapable as Jemima; she didn't change her eggs, so the bottom eggs never got warm & only the top eggs hatched. There were two children reared - Tapioca & Sago. We ate Sago as he proved to be a drake..."