£400 - £600
POTTER, Helen Beatrix. Autograph letter, signed (H. B. Heelis) to Elizabeth Tyson. Sawrey, August 27, 1937. Unpublished and unrecorded.
One sheet, 17.5 x 11cm, 5748 Bond watermark, 2 pages, creased when folded, with autograph envelope addressed Miss Tyson (name scuffed), Busk House, Ambleside (2)
A brief letter to the local antique dealer on clearing the contents of Belmount Hall, Hawkshead
"You would think it was a curious experience, a strange place. I am getting used to it. Your reference to Mr Fleming and Meacher Gray was fortunate as she is influenced by what she is told about other people. Personally I would prefer that she would take away the house key but if she leaves me the task of going in and moving any thing after she goes back to Italy I should be like someone else's help as well as Mr Bradley's. It is such an anxious job to touch other people's china!
But there is no knowing what she may decide at last minute, I did not know Father - was dead. I wish Father Dove [?] had been alive as he has not I hope she gets safely back to Italy where the priests and the American consul can advise her, poor old lady. She has only an Italian speaking chauffeur with her. She looks poorly... I must bring back your lacquer case when I have more time."
Provenance: Elizabeth Tyson (1878-1970) thence by descent in her extended family to the present vendor
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