Auction for Beatrix Potter letter
Published March 10th, 2006
A letter from Beatrix Potter to a young fan apologising for the quality of one of her books, is expected to fetch up to £2,500 at auction in Exeter.
The four-page letter to Joy Shapland was written by the Peter Rabbit author in 1913.
In it, Potter apologises for her book The Tale of Pigling Bland, explaining that she had been poorly.
Auctioneer Rachel Littlewood of Hampton and Littlewood said: “This letter is such a unique piece of history.”
“We have already had a lot of interest and I have been responding to e-mails from all over the world.”
