307. Potter (Beatrix, afterwards Mrs Heelis, writer and illustrator, 1866-1943) Autograph Letter signed "Beatrix Heelis" to Mrs Bertha Mahoney Miller, editor of the Hornbook, 1p., 4to, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, 19th March 1942, thanking her for the “Hornbook with your fine tribute to Anne Carroll Moore - it could not be better. What a wonderful purposeful life of achievement - purposeful - because she has had an aim all throughout her career - I have just made stories to please myself because I never grew up”, and referring to the war in the Far East, “I cannot think and I don’t want to think that Australia is in peril”, folds.
est. £1000 – £1500