Potter 'didn't care for rabbit dolls'
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."
Email to a friend
Print this page- Scottish independence: I don’t want ‘separatism’ says Sir Tom Farmer
- Leveson Inquiry: Tony Blair defends ‘working relationship’ with Rupert Murdoch
- Craig Levein insists Scotland will recover from US thrashing
- Police investigate death of man, 31, on West Highland Way
- The Rumour Mill: Monday’s football news and gossip
- Scottish independence: I don’t want ‘separatism’ says Sir Tom Farmer
- The Rumour Mill: Monday’s football news and gossip
- Craig Levein insists Scotland will recover from US thrashing
- James McPake set for Coventry talks as Hibs wait in wings
- Scottish independence: Labour voters ‘will deliver independence’
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Monday 28 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 22 C
Wind Speed: 20 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 9 C to 14 C
Wind Speed: 13 mph
Wind direction: North east
