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Potter (Beatrix, afterwards Mrs Heelis

Potter (Beatrix, afterwards Mrs Heelis, writer and illustrator, 1866-1943) Autograph Letter signed "HBH" to Mrs Bertha Mahoney Miller, editor of the Horn Book,

3pp., 4to, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, 11th December 1938, discussing the looming war, "Personally we are in no danger from aeroplanes amongst the mists and rocky valleys; but as regards good furniture and china and the comforts of home - we would in case of war be swarmed over by refugees from Barrow. The shipyards & docks are only 15 miles away. No one would grudge asylum in a raid...", the weather, the bad farming conditions, ""Fancy selling a live sheep for 5/3", furniture and American visitors, "Anne Carrol Moore is fine - and later in August that nice boy Henry P. Coolidge - grown up now. He looked over my old oak with resumed interest", folds.

***Bertha Mahoney Miller (1882-1969), founder and editor of The Horn Book..