£400 - £600
POTTER, Helen Beatrix. Autograph letter, signed (Beatrice Heelis) to Elizabeth Tyson. Castle Cottage, Sawrey, January 13, 1936. Unpublished and unrecorded.
17.5 x 11cm, 1 page, creased where folded, lightly foxed and stained with sporadic smudged ink, with autograph envelope addressed Miss Tyson, Busk House, Ambleside (2)
A note to the local antique dealer
“I enclose the cheque as regards the cupboard, I am afraid it is too large for the space upstairs and a possible place downstairs is damp in this miserable weather."
Provenance: Elizabeth Tyson (1878-1970) thence by descent in her extended family to the present vendor
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