Volume 39, Number 10 · May 28, 1992
Yrs. Aff. Beatrix Potter
By Janet Adam Smith
Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter
Collected and introduced by Judy Taylor
Frederick Warne/Penguin, 240 pp., $20.00
Letters to Children
by Beatrix Potter, foreword by Philip Hofer
Walker and Company, 48 pp., $5.95 (paper)
When in 1966 Philip Hofer published facsimiles of nine of Beatrix Potter's letters to children, he could say that 'To be sure, more letters of this same sort, with pictures, exist, but they are jealously guarded by their owners.' Now Judy Taylor has by zeal, persistence, and cajolery rounded up over two hundred letters with pictures, written from 1892 to 1943. Previously involved in many books about Beatrix Potter, she decided that tracking down the recipients of the letters would be 'an intriguing journey of research and reminiscence.'
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