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Potter 'didn't care for rabbit dolls'



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Published Date: 29 October 2008
A LETTER is to go on sale in which Beatrix Potter states she did not "care" for the commercialisation of Peter Rabbit.
Bonhams will offer the archive material in a sale in London on 4 November.

Estimated at £2,000 to £4,000, the collection includes a signed first edition of The Tailor of Gloucester as well as correspondence between Potter and her friends, Elizabeth and Edith Todhunter, who ran a small business from their home in Windermere designing and making dolls.

One extract from a letter reads: "There is nothing more to be made of 'Peter' commercially. There have been dolls, china, slippers etc for years – they bring in royalties; but somehow I never care for any of them."





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  • Last Updated: 28 October 2008 9:28 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
 

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