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Potter (Beatrix, afterwards Mrs Heelis

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6pp., 8vo, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, 24th November 1941, answering questions about her books, "'Stymouth' was Sidmouth [Little Pig Robinson]... Other pictures were sketched at Lyme Regis and discussing John Taylor, owner of the Ginger & Pickles shop, "Old John Taylor was the Sawrey joiner and wheelwright; his wife and later his stout elderly daughter 'Agnes Anne' kept the little general shop for years and years... Ginger & Pickles is no more. Multiple stores had about killed village shops... . Agnes Anne was a big fat woman with a loud voice, very genuine in her likes and dislikes; a good sort. Old John was a sweet gentle old man, failed in his legs, so he kept his bed; but was head of the family and owned several cottages. He professed to be jealous because I had put his son John in a book... . I asked him how could I put him in - old John - in a book if he insisted on living in bed? So a week afterwards, enclosed with an acct, there came a scrap of paper 'John Taylor's Compliments' and he thinks he might pass for a dormouse'", and her publisher's Warne & Co., "My books are off the market - wails and lamentations from F.W. & Co. They have enough paper but they cannot get bookbinders, so they would have to refuse the whole Christmas market. It would hit me also; but farming has looked up...", 3 holes deleting passages caused by wartime censor, folds.

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