[Rarebooks] FS: A Christmas Card from Beatrix Potter: "we are well but old & tired"

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POTTER,  Beatrix.  CHRISTMAS  CARD INSCRIBED  AND  SIGNED.  n.d.
[@1942].  A  small (3-1/2" x 4-3/4") Christmas card in the  form  of a
string-tied  chapbook of stiff covers with a color illustration on the
front  (not  by  Potter) and two leaves inside with  printing  on  the
recto  of  one  leaf containing Christmas Greetings with  a  quote  by
Leith  Gordon.  Beneath  that in Beatrix Potter's hand SIGNED  by  her
with  her  married  name is the following: "W & Beatrix  Heelis/It  is
pleasant  to  think of friends/in a sad time - we are well,  but/old &
tired-."  Though  the name of the recipient is not written by  Potter,
this  was  part  of  a lot of three cards from the  estate  of  Bertha
Mahony  Miller, founder of HORN BOOK MAGAZINE and an important  figure
in  the fight for the idea that children's books should be taken  more
seriously.  She  was  also  a close friend  of  Beatrix  Potter  and a
champion of her books. Near Fine                              $3500.00

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