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Linda Lear/Beatrix Potter—Folder Inventory
Series 1. Chapter Research Materials
Prologue, "Ownership"
Box 0
Folder 1 Beatrix Potter letter to Amelia (Millie) Warne regarding her lost ring 1918 November 8
Folder 2 Physical description of Beatrix Potter, age 39 2003, undated
Folder 3 Sawrey and the Lake District 1900, 2003-2004, undated
Folder 4 Deeds and maps for Beatrix Potter's properties in the Lake District 1905, 2002-2004, undated
Folder 5 Death of Henry Preston of Hill Top Farm and sale of livestock 1905, 2003
Folder 6 Hill Top Farm purchase and deeds 2002-2004, undated
Folder 7 Braikenridge & Edwards, Rupert Potter's solicitors 2002
Folder 8 Castle Farm purchase and deeds 1995, 2002, undated
Folder 9 National Trust properties once owned by Beatrix Potter 1989 June
Chapter 1, "Roots"
Box 1A/1B
Folder 1 Leech, Crompton, and Potter family trees 1845, 1966-2007, undated
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Folder 2 Beatrix Potter's views on her relatives 1890-1895, 2003, undated
Folder 3 Crompton family undated
Folder 4 Beatrix Potter notes and correspondence to Fanny Cooper regarding her Crompton ancestors 1911, undated
Folder 5 Jessy (Crompton) Potter undated
Folder 6 “A North Country Lass: Beatrix Potter's Roots in the Millscapes of the North West,” lecture by Glynis Reeve 2000 October 21
Folder 7 Edmund Potter (1802-1883) 1948-2003, undated
Folder 8 Photographs of Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London circa 2000
Folder 9 Edmund Potter and Dinting Vale, by J.G. Hurst 1948-2001, undated
Folder 10 Dinting & the Potters, Glossop & District Heritage Trust 2002, undated
Folder 11 "Beatrix Potter's Glossop Connections," by Janette Sykes 2000-2001, undated
Folder 12 Beatrix Potter's Manchester Roots and Armitt Connection, by Eileen Jay 1994, undated
Folder 13 Picture of a Manufacturing District, by Edmund Potter 1856, 1997
Folder 14 “Calico Printing as an Art Manufacture: A Lecture Read Before the Society of Arts, April 22, 1852,” by Edmund Potter 1852, undated
Folder 15 Manuscript of "A Genial Man: Edmund Potter and His Calico Printing Work," by Rowena Godfrey circa 2005, undated 3
Folder 16 Corn laws and calico tax 1952, undated
Folder 17 Inquirer and New York Times articles on Unitarians 1875-1900, undated
Folder 18 Lists of published works by Edmund Potter and Rupert Potter 2000, undated
Folder 19 Potter and Leech families and the art establishment undated
Folder 20 "The Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857," by Suzanne Fagence Cooper 2001 June
Folder 21 Obituaries and wills of Potter and Leech family members 1861-1932, 2001, undated
Folder 22 Leech family history 1861-1884, undated
Folder 23 The Foundation of the Stalybridge Unitarian Church and Sunday School and the Connection of Their Origins with the Leech Family, by Jack Bredbury 2001-2003, undated
Folder 24 Gorse Hall, Stalybridge, the Leech family home 2000-2004, undated
Folder 25 Photographs of Stalybridge Unitarian Church and excavations of Gorse Hall circa 1999
Folder 26 Potter family history 2003, undated
Folder 27 Rupert Potter (1832-1914) 1846-1914, 2003-2005, undated
Folder 28 Rupert Potter at Manchester College 1932, undated
Folder 29 Royal Manchester Institution 1977, undated 4
Folder 30 Synopsis and chapters one and two of Michael Harvey's unpublished manuscript Rupert Potter, a Victorian Amateur Photographer 2003, undated
Folder 31 Rupert Potter and Lincoln's Inn 1858-1896, 1968-2003
Folder 32 Law report on case Rupert Potter argued before the House of Lords 1869
Folder 33 Rupert Potter's social clubs 1874, 1996-2003, undated
Folder 34 Helen (Leech) Potter (1839-1932) 1929-1938, undated
Folder 35 Photograph of Helen (Leech) Potter 1885
Folder 36 Helen (Leech) Potter artwork circa 1850
Folder 37 Leech-Potter wedding quilt (1863 August 8) 2002
Folder 38 Photographs of Bolton Gardens, London circa 2005
Folder 39 Servants at Bolton Gardens, London 2006
Folder 40 John Clegg interview of Louisa Rhodes, cook for Helen (Leech) Potter from 1928 to 1933 1985 August
Folder 41 Potter family favorites album 2001, undated
Folder 42 Photographs and description of the Potter family favorites album circa 2000
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Folder 43 Photographs of Hyde Chapel, Gee Cross, and Potter family tombstone circa 1999
Chapter 2, "Exposures"
Box 2A/2B
Folder 1 "Americans Look at Beatrix Potter," by Elaine R. Jacobsen 1996, undated
Folder 2 Lucy Roscoe 1840-1910, by Dora Roscoe 1911
Folder 3 Dalguise House, Scotland 1874, 2001-2003, undated
Folder 4 Chronologies, 1874 and 1875 undated
Folder 5 Beatrix Potter in Scotland, by Deborah Rolland 1981
Folder 6 Beatrix Potter's childhood correspondence 1874, undated
Folder 7 Beatrix Potter description of John Bright 1933
Folder 8 Photograph of John Bright and Beatrix Potter, age 8 or 9 circa 1875
Folder 9 "John Bright in the Highlands," in the Pall Mall Gazette 1889, 2004
Folder 10 William Gaskell letter to Beatrix Potter 1877 August 23, undated
Folder 11 Photographs of Bertram Potter’s natural history specimens chest undated
Folder 12 Influences on Beatrix Potter's art 1942, 2002, undated
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Folder 13 Excerpts from Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art, by Ann Bermingham 2000
Folder 14 Introduction to Beatrix Potter's Art, edited by Anne Stevenson Hobbs 1989
Folder 15 Vere Foster drawing books and Beatrix Potter drawings circa 1875-1882, 1997-2002, undated
Folder 16 Thumbnail images and records of Beatrix Potter’s drawing book 1874-1875
Folder 17 Thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter drawings of flowers 1875-1876
Folder 18 Beatrix Potter drawing of trees circa 1879
Folder 19 Randolph Caldecott 1983-1996
Folder 20 Excerpts from Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life, by F.J. Harvey Darton 1982
Folder 21 "The New World of Children in Eighteenth-century England," in The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, by Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb 1982
Folder 22 Literary influences on Beatrix Potter 1946-2005, undated
Folder 23 Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding books she read as a child 1912-1942, undated
Folder 24 Beatrix Potter correspondence to the Denver Public Library 1930-1936
Folder 25 Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll 1892-1934, 1998, undated 7
Folder 26 Excerpts from Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, by Anne Lundin 2001
Folder 27 Anna Barbauld 1997, undated
Folder 28 Maria Edgeworth 1894, 1972, undated
Folder 29 "How Beatrix Potter's Childhood Reading Influenced Her Writing Style," by Dale Schafer 1999
Folder 30 Peter Rabbit and the Child Psychologist: Some Further Adventures, by Nicholas Tucker 1989
Folder 31 "Beatrix Potter and the Illustration of Children's Books," by Joyce Irene Whalley 1999, undated
Folder 32 "Women Writers and Writing for Children: From Sarah Fielding to E. Nesbit," by Julia Briggs 1989
Folder 33 Excerpts from Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood 1600-1900, edited by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, and Victor Watson 1997
Folder 34 Excerpts from Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris 1921, undated
Folder 35 Fanny Burney 2003, undated
Folder 36 Lady Florence Dixie 2003
Folder 37 "Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott," in The House of Warne, edited by Arthur King and A. F. Stuart 1965
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Folder 38 Books in Victorian Elementary Schools, by Alec Ellis 1971, 2001
Folder 39 Chapter three of Michael Harvey's unpublished manuscript Rupert Potter, a Victorian Amateur Photographer 2003, undated
Folder 40 Letters to Bertram Potter from Helen (Leech) Potter, Rupert Potter, and Jane (Ashton) Leech 1877, undated
Folder 41 London neighbors of the Potters 1977-2003, undated
Folder 42 "Beatrix Potter's London,” Beatrix Potter Society 2000-2009
Folder 43 Ordnance survey maps of Chelsea and Kensington, 1865-1894 1998-2000
Folder 44 Beatrix Potter map of Queen Victoria Street, London 1872
Folder 45 Paintings from Bolton Gardens, London circa 1880
Folder 46 Menus from Bolton Gardens, London 1875, 1886
Folder 47 John Charles Wilson of Oxford, Potter family friend circa 1880, 2003, undated
Folder 48 Beatrix Potter's Christmas and Valentine's Day cards, 1872- 1878 2003, undated
Folder 49 Beatrix Potter's art examination results and student certificate 1880-1881, undated
Folder 50 Beatrix Potter letter regarding her pet mouse 1920
Folder 51 Sir John Everett Millais 1926, 2002-2004, undated
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Chapter 3, “Transitions”
Box 3A/3B
Folder 1 Leslie Linder 1966-1973
Folder 2 Leslie Linder and Beatrix Potter's art and journal 1955-1966, undated
Folder 3 Offending passages in Beatrix Potter's journal 1963, 2003
Folder 4 "The Unknown Beatrix Potter," by Edwin Mullins 1966, undated
Folder 5 Unpublished excerpt from Beatrix Potter's journal undated
Folder 6 Beatrix Potter poems and fragments circa 1880
Folder 7 Beatrix Potter's journal and French copybook circa 1890-1895
Folder 8 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1881 1881, undated
Folder 9 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1882 1882, undated
Folder 10 Wray Castle, summer 1882 1882, 1951-1987, undated
Folder 11 Bertram Potter's schools and clubs 1900-1918, 2003, undated
Folder 12 Beatrix Potter's governesses 2003-2005, undated
Folder 13 Ilfracombe, 1882 and 1883 1882-1883
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Folder 14 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal and correspondence, 1883 1883, 2007, undated
Folder 15 Beatrix Potter letter to Rupert Potter regarding Ilfracombe 1883 April 3
Folder 16 Edmund Crompton Potter (1830-1883) 1883, undated
Folder 17 Edmund Crompton Potter's will 1883, undated
Folder 18 Edmund Potter's death and will 1884, undated
Folder 19 Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal regarding Oxford and William Gaskell's death 1884, 2003
Folder 20 Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal regarding Dalguise House, Scotland 1884
Folder 21 Plants and flowers of Dalguise House, Scotland 2003
Folder 22 Dunkeld, Scotland, 1884 1884, 1997, undated
Folder 23 Potter servants and townspeople in Scotland, 1870-1881 1874 October 10, undated
Folder 24 Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal regarding Portsmouth 1884
Folder 25 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1884 1884, undated
Folder 26 Rupert Potter's photography 1989-2005, undated
Folder 27 Photographs of the countryside attributed to Beatrix Potter and Rupert Potter 1894, undated
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Folder 28 Chapter eight of Michael Harvey's unpublished manuscript Rupert Potter, a Victorian Amateur Photographer undated
Folder 29 Michael Harvey on Rupert Potter, Sir John Everett Millais, and photography 1973, 2003, undated
Folder 30 Beatrix Potter, Sir John Everett Millais, and the Pre-Raphaelites 1884-1886, 1985-2003
Folder 31 "The Potters and Photography," lecture by Michael I. Wilson 2000
Folder 32 Excerpts from Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England through a Victorian Lens, by Martin Barnes 2001
Folder 33 Julia Margaret Cameron, Victorian photographer 2003 October
Folder 34 Impact of the London Dock Strike of 1889 on the Potters undated
Folder 35 Party for Beatrix Potter, June 1885 undated
Folder 36 Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal regarding Lingholm, Keswick 1885
Folder 37 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1885 1885, undated
Folder 38 Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal regarding Ambleside 1885-1886
Folder 39 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1886 1886, undated
Folder 40 Bertram Potter letter to Beatrix Potter regarding taxidermy of a bat 1886 October 12
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Folder 41 Photograph of Beatrix Potter watercolor “Leaves and Flowers of the Orchid Cactus” 1886
Folder 42 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1887 1887, undated
Folder 43 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1888 1888, undated
Folder 44 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1889 1889, undated
Chapter 4, "Experiments"
Box 4A/4B
Folder 1 Chapter notes and outlines 2003, undated
Folder 2 Bibliography of mycology and geology books available to Beatrix Potter 2000, undated
Folder 3 Natural history influences on Beatrix Potter undated
Folder 4 Beatrix Potter’s Jack in the Box drawing, 1888 undated
Folder 5 Beatrix Potter’s nature studies, 1888-1890 undated
Folder 6 Beatrix Potter's impressions of Jemima Blackburn, bird painter 1891
Folder 7 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1890 1890, undated
Folder 8 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1891 1891, undated
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Folder 9 Chronology, notes, and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal and correspondence, 1892 1892, undated
Folder 10 Heath Park, Birnam 2000
Folder 11 Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal regarding photographing in Scotland 1892
Folder 12 Sale of Beatrix Potter drawings to Ernest Nister, fine art printers 1894, undated
Folder 13 "Beatrix Potter and the Scottish Connection," by Helen Jackson 1988 December
Folder 14 Charles Macintosh 1972-1998, undated
Folder 15 Mary Noble articles and lecture on Beatrix Potter as a naturalist 1981-1987, undated
Folder 16 Mary Noble notes on Beatrix Potter's life and journal undated
Folder 17 Interviews and photographs of Mary Noble 1981-2001
Folder 18 Notes on and excerpts from A Perthshire Naturalist: Charles Macintosh of Inver, by Henry Coates 1923, undated
Folder 19 "Notes by a Naturalist Round Dunkeld," by Charles Macintosh 1898
Folder 20 Correspondence between the Potters and Charles Macintosh, with Mary Noble's notes 1887-1897, 1998, undated
Folder 21 Encounter between Beatrix Potter and Charles Macintosh in Birnam, October 1892 1892, undated
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Folder 22 "A.F. MacKenzie--Photographer," by Helen Jackson circa 1985, undated
Folder 23 Pages from the mycology book Rupert Potter gave to Charles Macintosh undated
Folder 24 Atholl McGregor 1987, 2003
Folder 25 Beatrix Potter's drawings of Old Man of the Woods fungus 2003, undated
Folder 26 Perth Museum exhibit catalog of Beatrix Potter's fungus watercolors 2000-2003, undated
Folder 27 British museums undated
Folder 28 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal and correspondence, 1893 1893, undated
Folder 29 Beatrix Potter’s first Peter Rabbit picture letter 1893 September 2
Folder 30 Beatrix Potter letters to Noel and Eric Moore 1895 April 21, undated
Folder 31 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal and correspondence, 1894 1894, undated
Folder 32 Beatrix Potter's archeological and fossil drawings 1894-1895, 1990, undated
Folder 33 “Flora and Fauna, Fungi and Fossils,” by Ann Stevenson Hobbs 1987, undated
Folder 34 Excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal regarding holidays in Scotland and the Borders 1892, 1894, undated
Folder 35 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal, 1895 1895, undated 15
Folder 36 Book reviews written by Beatrix Potter 1895, undated
Folder 37 Caroline Hutton 1952, 2005
Folder 38 Caroline Hutton lecture on Beatrix Potter and the Hutton family 1999-2000
Folder 39 Caroline Martineau (1843-1903) 1903, 1995, undated
Folder 40 Thumbnail images and records of Beatrix Potter lithographs of a moth, jug, caterpillar, and gazelle’s head circa 1896
Folder 41 Emma Cons 2004-2005
Folder 42 Wicksteed family 2003, undated
Folder 43 Henry, Alice, and Gertrude Woodward 1913, 1983-1989, undated
Folder 44 Excerpts from Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England 1760-1860, by Ann B. Shteir 1996
Chapter 5, "Discoveries"
Box 5
Folder 1 Science and the British Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew undated
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter quotes on fungi, fossils, and science, 1892-1897 2003, undated
Folder 3 Beatrix Potter photographs of fungi and archeological stones 1896, undated
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Folder 4 "The Role of the Amateur in Mycology--What Would We Do Without Them!" by Roy Watling 1998
Folder 5 Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe 1906-1916, 1987-2002, undated
Folder 6 Beatrix Potter and the Roscoes 1986-2009, undated
Folder 7 Excerpts from The Life and Experiences of Sir H. E. Roscoe, by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe 1906
Folder 8 Beatrix Potter illustration “A Dream of Toasted Cheese,” from The Life and Experiences of Sir H. E. Roscoe 1899
Folder 9 "The Secret Life of Beatrix Potter," by Naomi Gilpatrick 1972 October
Folder 10 "Lake District Natural History and Beatrix Potter," by John Clegg 1986 July
Folder 11 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter's journal and correspondence, 1896 and 1897 1896-1897, undated
Folder 12 Beatrix Potter drawings of spore germination 1898, 2002
Folder 13 Leslie Linder summary of Beatrix Potter's fungi drawings undated
Folder 14 Leslie Linder outline of Beatrix Potter’s journal entries on fungi 2003, undated
Folder 15 Leslie Linder correspondence regarding Beatrix Potter's journal entries on fungi 1964, 2004
Folder 16 Mary Noble on Beatrix Potter as a mycologist 1981-1984, undated
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Folder 17 Obituaries for Mary Noble 2002
Folder 18 Correspondence on fungi, spores, slips, and microbiology 2004
Folder 19 Beatrix Potter and William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, director of Kew Gardens 1982-1988, undated
Folder 20 Correspondence between Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe and William Turner Thiselton-Dyer 2001
Folder 21 Henry Marshall Ward undated
Folder 22 Bibliography of current works on fungi and fossils undated
Folder 23 Notes on and excerpts from Liaisons of Life and other works by Tom Wakeford 2001-2002, undated
Folder 24 Inventory of Beatrix Potter's microscope drawings of mosses undated
Folder 25 Beatrix Potter and the Linnean Society 1897, 1997-2001, undated
Folder 26 Leslie Linder correspondence regarding Beatrix Potter and the Linnean Society 1964
Folder 27 Leslie Linder letter regarding Beatrix Potter's lost Linnean Society paper on fungi 1972 March 13
Folder 28 Fate of Beatrix Potter's Linnean Society paper on fungi 2001-2004
Folder 29 "But If . . . Helen B. Potter's Year of Anxiety!" by Roy Watling 1996, 2004
Folder 30 Linnean Society apology 1997 18
Folder 31 Nineteenth-century scientific women 1999-2001
Folder 32 Correspondence between Mary Noble and W.P.K. Findlay 1978-1997, undated
Folder 33 "The Other Beatrix Potter," by S.T. Chapman 1986 October
Folder 34 Beatrix Potter and the scientific community 1986-1999
Chapter 6, “Fantasies”
Box 6A/6B/6C
Folder 1 “Uncle Remus and Beatrix Potter,” lecture by Peter Hollindale 2003-2004
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter picture letters 1895-1899, 2004, undated
Folder 3/3* Beatrix Potter’s “The Owl and the Pussy Cat” picture letters 1897, undated
Folder 4 Chronology and excerpts from Beatrix Potter’s journal and correspondence, 1897 1897, undated
Folder 5 Deterioration of Beatrix Potter’s relationship with her father 2003, undated
Folder 6 Hardwicke Rawnsley 1883-1905, 2001, undated
Folder 7 Lake District Defence Society and Friends of the Lake District circa 1880, undated
Folder 8 “Canon Rawnsley and the National Trust,” by Elizabeth Battrick 1997
Folder 9 National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty undated
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Folder 10 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1898 1898, undated
Folder 11 Chronology, 1899 undated
Folder 12 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1900 1900, undated
Folder 13 Beatrix Potter’s decision to transform her picture letters into books 2004
Folder 14 “A Vogue for Little Books: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Its Contemporary Competitors,” by Laura C. Stevenson circa 2003
Folder 15* Interview with Nora Moore 1987 December 17
Folder 16 Frederick Warne & Company letter to Beatrix Potter regarding publication of her sketches 1891
Folder 17 Chronology, 1901 undated
Folder 18 Frederick Warne & Company correspondence to Hardwicke Rawnsley and Beatrix Potter regarding publication of Peter Rabbit book 1901
Folder 19 Beatrix Potter photograph of and note on Benjamin Bunny undated
Folder 20 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Frederick Warne & Company regarding publication of her Peter Rabbit book 1901
Folder 21 Excerpts from The House of Warne: One Hundred Years of Publishing, by Arthur King and A.F. Stuart 1965, undated
Folder 22 “Beatrix Potter and Warne,” by John Clegg 1993 April
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Folder 23 L. Leslie Brooke and Johnny Crow’s Garden 1982-2004, undated
Folder 24 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1902 1902, 2004, undated
Folder 25 Beatrix Potter photograph of Hill Top Farm 1902
Folder 26 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Norman Warne 1902
Folder 27/27* Beatrix Potter correspondence marketing the first printing of The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1901-1902
Folder 28 Bertram Potter’s Athenaeum Club membership 1906, undated
Folder 29 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1903 1903, undated
Folder 30 Beatrix Potter’s British Museum application and card 1903 June 13
Folder 31 List of Beatrix Potter correspondence to Frederick Warne & Company, with subjects undated
Folder 32 Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding the creation of Peter Rabbit 1925-1942
Folder 33 “‘Roots’ of the Peter Rabbit Tales,” by Beatrix Potter 1929
Folder 34 “Young Beatrix Reveals Birth of Peter Rabbit,” in the Daily Telegraph 2000 September 14
Folder 35 “Animal Stories Since Beatrix Potter and Her Influence on the Genre,” by Peter Hollindale 1999
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Folder 36 Notes on Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind, by Eileen Crist 1999
Folder 37 “Animal Liberation: Beatrix Potter,” from Don’t Tell the Grown- ups: Subversive Children’s Literature, by Alison Lurie 1990
Folder 38 “Beatrix Potter: Naturalist Artist,” by Catherine Golden 1990
Folder 39 “Beatrix Potter and Natural History,” by Peter Hollindale circa 2001
Folder 40 “The Gardens of Beatrix Potter,” by Peter Parker 1994-1997
Folder 41 “Gardening with Beatrix Potter,” lecture by Peter Parker 2002-2003, undated
Folder 42 Flowers in Beatrix Potter books, indexed by Leslie Linder undated
Folder 43 Letter from O.G. Lewis, rector of Dunkeld, to Leslie Linder regarding Mr. McGregor’s garden 1970 March 1
Folder 44 Beatrix Potter’s little books methodology 2003-2004
Folder 45 Chronologies of Beatrix Potter’s little books and merchandise 2001-2002, undated
Folder 46 Brompton Cemetery and Beatrix Potter’s character names 1940, 1999-2002
Folder 47 General criticism of Beatrix Potter’s little books undated
Folder 48 Contemporary reviews of Beatrix Potter’s little books 1903-1944
Folder 49 Wall panel for Victoria and Albert Museum exhibit on Beatrix Potter’s little books undated
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Folder 50 Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition on Beatrix Potter’s little books 2005
Folder 51 Beatrix Potter: A Centennial Exhibition, October 16-November 27, 1966, Free Library of Philadelphia 1966
Folder 52 Articles on Peter Rabbit’s 50th and 100th birthdays 1952, 2002
Folder 53 “Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943,” by Leslie Linder 1965
Folder 54 Leslie Linder on Beatrix Potter’s art 1972, undated
Folder 55 Excerpts from The History of the Tale of Peter Rabbit, from Leslie Linder’s A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter 1976
Folder 56 “Beatrix Potter’s Rabbit Friends” lecture and exhibition catalog, by Karen Lightner 2001-2002
Folder 57 “That Naughty Rabbit,” lecture by Judy Taylor 2002 May 7
Folder 58 Excerpt from “The Case of Peter Rabbit (and Others),” by Brian Alderson 1993
Folder 59 Excerpts from Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature, by Humphrey Carpenter 1985
Folder 60 “Beatrix Potter and Social Comedy,” by Gillian Avery 1994
Folder 61 “Beatrix Potter’s Fiction: Real Stories for Real Children,” by Nicholas Tucker 1999
Folder 62 Excerpts from Book Illustrated: Text, Image and Culture, 1770- 1930, edited by Catherine J. Golden 2000 23
Folder 63 “Beatrix Potter and John Everett Millais,” by Lissa Paul 2002
Folder 64 Excerpts from Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books & Pictures, by Maurice Sendak 1988
Folder 65 Excerpts from The Natural History of Make-Believe, by John Goldthwaite 1996
Folder 66 “Sis Beatrix (Part Two),” by John Goldthwaite 1987
Folder 67 Aesop in the Shadows, by Peter Hollindale 2000
Folder 68 First Frederick Warne & Company catalog listing The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1903
Folder 69 Frederick Warne & Company catalogs 1915-1921
Folder 70 Reviews of Beatrix Potter’s little books in Frederick Warne & Company catalogs 1926, undated
Folder 71 Presentation by Elizabeth Booth on the commercialization of Peter Rabbit circa 2003
Folder 72 History of Frederick Warne & Company’s merchandising, by Elizabeth Booth 1995
Chapter 7, “Ideas”
Box 7
Folder 1/1* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1903 1903, undated
Folder 2 Variant text of Squirrel Nutkin picture letter 1901, undated 24
Folder 3 Note on The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin in The Art of Beatrix Potter, by Leslie Linder circa 1972
Folder 4 Beatrix Potter photograph of Old Brown’s oak tree, used in The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 1903
Folder 5 Beatrix Potter’s Gloucester: A Guide to the City and Its Surrounding Countryside, by Keith Clark 1988-1989
Folder 6 Photographs and brochure of Gloucester 2001 July, undated
Folder 7 Correspondence regarding The Tailor of Gloucester 1903, 1944, undated
Folder 8 “Beatrix Potter and Gloucester,” lecture by Judy Taylor 2003
Folder 9 The Tailor and Cutter review of The Tailor of Gloucester 1989
Folder 10 Frederick Warne & Company copyright for Peter Rabbit 2004
Folder 11 Piracies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1928, 2006, undated
Chapter 8, “Realities”
Box 8
Folder 1 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1904 1904, undated
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Norman Warne 1904, 2004
Folder 3 Warne family 1902-1912, 2004-2005, undated
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Folder 4/4* Amelia (Millie) Warne 1995-2011, undated
Folder 5 Winifred (Warne) Boultbee recollections of Beatrix Potter 1971-1990, undated
Folder 6* Dawn Richardson correspondence regarding Beatrix Potter’s visit to Kate Potter Cruickshank, 1904 or 1905 1988
Folder 7/7* Beatrix Potter’s membership in a drawing society 1904 April 18, undated
Folder 8 Excerpts from The Art of Beatrix Potter, selected and arranged by Leslie Linder and W.A. Herring 1972
Folder 9 “Tailpiece: The Tale of Two Bad Mice,” by Suzanne Rahn 1984
Folder 10 “The Tale of Two Bad Mice, an Author, and an Editor,” by Elizabeth Logan 1998
Folder 11* Beatrix Potter illustration from The Tale of Two Bad Mice undated
Folder 12 Beatrix Potter letter to James Vaughan regarding the cat in The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 1904 August 25
Folder 13 Beatrix Potter’s Derwentwater sketchbook 2004, undated
Folder 14 Chronology of The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle 2004
Folder 15 Leslie Linder on The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle 1971
Folder 16 Kitty MacDonald, inspiration for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle 1942, 1971-2004, undated
Folder 17 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Margaret Hough, with reference to a picture of a hedgehog (Mrs. Tiggy-winkle) 1905 February 22 26
Folder 18 Lucie Carr 1954, 1990
Folder 19 Beatrix Potter essay on hedgehogs circa 1913, 1971-2002, undated
Folder 20 The Field magazine 2004
Folder 21 Beatrix Potter and hawfinches, hedgehogs, and frogs undated
Folder 22* Beatrix Potter letter to Hugh Bridgeman, first American child to write to her 1905 March 5
Chapter 9, “Losses”
Box 9
Folder 1 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1905 1905, 2002, undated
Folder 2 Chronology of The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-pan undated
Folder 3 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Norman Warne 1905, undated
Folder 4 Norman Warne letter to Beatrix Potter regarding Mrs. Tiggy- winkle and The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-pan 1905 May 25
Folder 5 Beatrix Potter’s 1905 holiday diary 1994-2002, undated
Folder 6 Norman Warne undated
Folder 7 Louisa Jane Warne letter to Jennie Warne regarding Norman Warne’s illness 1905 August 20
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Folder 8 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Amelia (Millie) Warne 1905-1906
Folder 9 Warne/Stephens Archive and family tree 1993, undated
Folder 10* Norman Warne letter to his goddaughter Jennie Warne 1899 January 15
Chapter 10, “Stories”
Box 10
Folder 1/1* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1906 1906, undated
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter letter with anti-Semitic comments 1906 February 14, undated
Folder 3 “Natural Companions: Text and Illustration in the Work of Beatrix Potter,” by Catherine J. Golden 1999-2002
Folder 4 Beatrix Potter’s Jeremy Fisher picture letter to Eric Moore 1893 September 5, 1998
Folder 5 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1906 1906-1989, undated
Folder 6 Articles by Michael Patrick Hearn on Beatrix Potter’s books 1977-1988
Folder 7 The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit, The Story of Miss Moppet, and “The Sly Old Cat,” 1906 1971-1987
Folder 8/8* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1907 1907, undated
Folder 9 The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1907 1971-1987
Folder 10 Beatrix Potter’s unpublished painting book, 1907 1971
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Folder 11/11* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1908 1908, 2003, undated
Folder 12 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1908 1971-1987
Folder 13 The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1908 1908-1993
Folder 14/14* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1909 1909, undated
Folder 15 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1909 1909-2002, undated
Folder 16 The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, 1909 1909-1987, undated
Folder 17 Beatrix Potter illustration “Tabitha Twitchit Is Grown So Fine” undated
Folder 18 Photographs of Stock Park, Sprout House, Helm Farm, and Broad Leys 1908-1910, undated
Chapter 11, “Diversions”
Box 11
Folder 1 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1910 1910, 1999-2004, undated
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter’s work for the 1910 election and campaign against free trade 1971
Folder 3 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Wilfred Evans regarding free trade and horse census pamphlets 1910, undated
Folder 4/4* The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1910 1913, 1971-1987
Folder 5/5* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1911 1911, 2004, undated 29
Folder 6 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1911 1911-1987
Folder 7 Peter Rabbit’s Painting Book, 1911 1971
Folder 8 Beatrix Potter letter draft regarding “grandmotherly legislation” on killing pigs 1912
Folder 9/9* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1912 1912, 2004-2007, undated
Folder 10 Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding hydroplanes on Windermere 1911-1912
Folder 11 Beatrix Potter letter in Country Life regarding hydroplanes and the Windermere Ferry circa 1912 January, undated
Folder 12 Letter-writing campaign by Beatrix Potter and Hardwicke Rawnsley against hydroplanes on Windermere 1912, 2007-2008, undated
Folder 13 Inquirer notices regarding Beatrix Potter 1966 July-August
Folder 14 “The Fairy in the Oak”, “Llewellyn’s Well,” and “Little Red Riding Hood,” 1911-1912 1971
Folder 15 The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1912 1911-1913, 1971-1987
Folder 16 Rupert Potter photographs of Beatrix Potter, Joan and Norah Moore, and Broad Leys 1912
Chapter 12, “Satisfactions”
Box 12
Folder 1 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1913 1913, 2004, undated 30
Folder 2 William Heelis undated
Folder 3 The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1913 1913-1994
Folder 4 Marriage of Beatrix Potter and William Heelis 1913, 2004, undated
Folder 5 Brochures on St. Mary Abbots Church, Kensington 1992, undated
Chapter 13, “Partnerships”
Box 13
Folder 1/1* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1913 1913, undated
Folder 2 Moss Heckle Tarn 1900-1919, 2003-2004, undated
Folder 3/3* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1914 1914, undated
Folder 4* Beatrix Potter’s membership in a drawing society 1914, 2005
Folder 5 Rupert Potter’s death certificate and estate 1914
Folder 6 “The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots,” 1914 1971-1995
Folder 7 Editorial response from Country Life to “Fairy Clogs” and other stories 1913, undated
Folder 8 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1915 1915, undated
Folder 9/9* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1916 1916, undated
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Folder 10 Women on the land during the First World War 1916, undated
Folder 11 Eleanor Louisa (Louie) Choyce (1876-1963) 1934, undated
Folder 12 Lucy (Potter) Roscoe and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe 2001-2004, undated
Folder 13 Obituary for Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe circa 1915 December
Folder 14/14* Frederic Fowkes, secretary of the Landowner’s Community Association 1912-1935, 1994, undated
Folder 15 Beatrix Potter letter to Hardwicke Rawnsley regarding tourists and walkers on fell land 1913 August 27
Folder 16 “The Oakmen,” 1918 1916, 1966-1971
Folder 17 Ernest A. Aris (1882-1963) 1916, 2002-2005, undated
Chapter 14, “Salvages”
Box 14
Folder 1 Fruing Warne letter to P. C. Leadbeater regarding Harold Warne’s arrest 1917 April 5
Folder 2 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1917 1917, 2007, undated
Folder 3 Braikenridge & Edwards letter to Frederick Warne & Company, with list of books returned to Beatrix Potter 1917 April 26, undated
Folder 4 Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, 1917 1917, 1971-1995
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Folder 5 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1918 1918, undated
Folder 6 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1918 1918, 1971-2004
Folder 7/7* (Walter) Bertram Potter (1872-1918) 1911, 1978-1986, undated
Folder 8* Mary Noble letter regarding Mary Potter 1986 October 21
Folder 9 Bertram Potter’s death and estate 1918, undated
Folder 10 Haddon & Turnbull letter to William Heelis regarding Bertram Potter’s estate 1918 June 28
Chapter 15, “Opportunities”
Box 15A/15B
Folder 1 Farming during the First World War undated
Folder 2 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1919 1919, 2005, undated
Folder 3 “The Tale of the Birds and Mr. Tod,” 1919 1971
Folder 4 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1920 1920, undated
Folder 5 Beatrix Potter letter to Miss Jump, a young writer 1920 February 24
Folder 6/6* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1921 1921, undated
Folder 7 Beatrix Potter on emigrating to Canada undated
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Folder 8/8* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1922 1922, undated
Folder 9 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Margaret (Daisy) Hammond 1920-1924, undated
Folder 10/10* Beatrix Potter correspondence with Mary Hutton 1922-1933, undated
Folder 11 Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1922 1971-1987, undated
Folder 12 R. P. Tuckey on why Beatrix Potter dedicated Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes to him 1989 December 11
Folder 13/13* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1923 1923, 2001, undated
Folder 14 Beatrix Potter letter to Edith (Potter) Gaddum regarding family finances 1923 June 8
Folder 15 Beatrix Potter contribution to the Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association 1923 January 22
Folder 16/16* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1924 1924, undated
Folder 17 Beatrix Potter notes about local people 1924 October 9
Folder 18 Beatrix Potter and the Girl Guides 1924-1943, 1984-2012, undated
Folder 19 Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding the Girl Guides 1922-1943
Folder 20 Beatrix Potter, Kitty Holdsworth, and the Girl Guides 1930-1934, 2005-2008, undated
Folder 21 Beatrix Potter and the Invalid Children’s Aid Association (ICAA) 1914-1927, 2002-2004, undated 34
Folder 22 Beatrix Potter and Beatrice Potter Webb 1924-1927, circa 1946, undated
Folder 23 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1925 1925, undated
Folder 24 Beatrix Potter’s American friends 2003-2005, undated
Folder 25 Beatrix Potter and Anne Carroll Moore 1952-1972
Folder 26 Rebekah Owen (1858-1939) 1984-1997
Folder 27 Beatrix Potter and the Armitt Library 2004-2005, undated
Folder 28 Beatrix Potter and Bertha Mahony Miller 1940-2004
Folder 29 Leslie Linder correspondence with Bertha Mahony Miller 1954-1956
Folder 30 Horn Book 1995-2005
Folder 31 Correspondence relating to Beatrix Potter’s American friends and the Horn Book 1921-1945
Folder 32 Photographs of Helen (Leech) Potter’s staff at Lindeth Howe, Windermere circa 1920
Chapter 16, “Legacies”
Box 16A/16B
Folder 1 “A Crack about Herdwick Sheep,” by Hardwicke Rawnsley 1911, undated
Folder 2 Herdwick sheep 1915-2005, undated 35
Folder 3 Excerpts from Herdwicks Past & Present: A History of the Breed, by R. H. Lamb 1997, undated
Folder 4 Herdwick Sheep Breeders’ Association 2001-2002, undated
Folder 5 Noel Rawnsley and the Herdwick Sheep Association 1899
Folder 6/6* Beatrix Potter and the Rawnsley family 1985-2008
Folder 7 Troutbeck Park Farm purchase and deeds, 1923 1946-2002, undated
Folder 8/8* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1926 1926, 2005, undated
Folder 9 Diseases in sheep 1915-2005, undated
Folder 10 “The Cattle Plague of 1865-67 and the Politicians,” by Barry Smith 1996
Folder 11 Hill farming and country life 1982-2005, undated
Folder 12 “The Common Good” and “The Heafs of England,” by Andrew Humphries 1997-2001
Folder 13 “Grikes and Grasslands, Red Squirrels and Reed Warblers: An Introduction to the Varied Ecology of the Lake District,” lecture by Christine Isherwood 2002
Folder 14 Excerpts from The Harvest of the Hills: Rural Life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders, 1400-1700, by Angus J. L. Winchester 2000
Folder 15 History of Westmoreland agriculture 1912-1995 36
Folder 16 Elizabeth Battrick interview of Tom Storey 1985-2003, undated
Folder 17 “Working for Mrs. Heelis, “ by W. R. Mitchell 1984
Folder 18 Obituaries for Tom Storey and his son, Geoff Storey 1986-1989
Folder 19 The Real Sawrey, by Phyllis Arkle 1984
Folder 20 John Fishwick memoire of Beatrix Potter and sheep farming 2004, undated
Folder 21 Notes on and excerpts from Beatrix Potter’s Farming Friendship, edited by Judy Taylor 1998, undated
Folder 22 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1927 1927, undated
Folder 23 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Dulcie 1918-1927, undated
Folder 24 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Eleanor (Simpson) Rawnsley 1927-1934
Folder 25 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1928 1928, 2005, undated
Folder 26 Sheep and cattle show catalogs 1919-1935
Chapter 17, “Americans”
Box 17A/17B
Folder 1 Charles S. Hopkinson 1939-2009
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter’s Horn Book appeal for donations to preserve land in the Lake District 1927, 1999-2005 37
Folder 3 Beatrix Potter author fact sheet for the Horn Book 1942
Folder 4 Bertha Mahony Miller 1982-2006, undated
Folder 5 History of the Horn Book 1999-2005
Folder 6 Horn Book records regarding Beatrix Potter 1954-1966, 2005, undated
Folder 7 Horn Book articles and reviews relating to Beatrix Potter 1946-2001, undated
Folder 8 Correspondence regarding Margaret Lane’s The Tale of Beatrix Potter 1944-1946
Folder 9 Marian Frazer Harris Perry 1947-2005, undated
Folder 10 Elizabeth Harris Stevens reminiscence about Beatrix Potter 1966
Folder 11 “American Discoveries” and “Pleasant Visits: Beatrix Potter and Americans,” by Jane Morse 1990-2000, undated
Folder 12 Elinor Whitney and William L. W. Field 1934-2005, undated
Folder 13 Henry P. Coolidge (1914-1999) 1927-2005, undated
Folder 14 “A Visit to Beatrix Potter,” by Henry P. Coolidge 1928
Folder 15 Beatrix Potter artwork given to Henry P. Coolidge 1982
Folder 16 “Notes on Meeting Beatrix Potter,” lecture given by Henry P. Coolidge 1977
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Folder 17 “Over the Hills and Far Away” 1929 February
Folder 18 “Peter Rabbit’s Almanac,” 1929 1971-1989
Folder 19 Alexander McKay 1940-2005, undated
Folder 20 David McKay Company author questionnaire for Beatrix Potter undated
Folder 21* Beatrix Potter letter to Margery McKay 1930 September 22
Folder 22 Inventory of the contents of Bolton Gardens, London 1914 June
Folder 23 Contract between Beatrix Potter and David McKay Company for publishing “The Caravan Stories” 1928 December 19
Folder 24 The Fairy Caravan, 1929 1929-2005, undated
Folder 25 Extract and watercolor from The Fairy Caravan sent to Henry P. Coolidge 1928-1929
Folder 26 Bertha Mahony Miller letter to Beatrix Potter regarding The Fairy Caravan 1928, 1997-2001
Folder 27 Beatrix Potter notes on The Fairy Caravan 1929 November 22
Folder 28 Mary Hutton letter to Beatrix Potter regarding The Fairy Caravan 1929 November 21
Folder 29 Beatrix Potter and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) 1939-2005, undated
Folder 30 Anne Carroll Moore 39
1997, undated
Folder 31 “The Three Owls’ Notebook,” by Anne Carroll Moore 1938-1955
Folder 32 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, 1930 1971
Chapter 18, “Ventures”
Box 18A/18B
Folder 1/1* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1929 1929, undated
Folder 2 Monk Coniston 1930-2002, undated
Folder 3 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Samuel Hamer and Bruce L. Thompson regarding Monk Coniston 1929-1934, 2005, undated
Folder 4 Farming at Hill Top Farm and Troutbeck Park Farm circa 1930, 2001-2002, undated
Folder 5 Beatrix Potter letter to George Walker regarding working at Troutbeck Park Farm 1929 December 28
Folder 6/6* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1930 1930, undated
Folder 7 William Woods letter to Beatrix Potter regarding employment as a shepherd 1930 October 3
Folder 8/8* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1931 1931
Folder 9 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1932 1932, undated
Folder 10 Sister Anne, 1932 1932, 1971
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Folder 11 Lucy Walker letter to Joseph Moscrop 1932 January 15
Folder 12 Helen (Leech) Potter’s death certificate and estate 1932-1933
Folder 13 Auction inventory of the contents of Lindeth Howe, Windermere 1933
Folder 14 History and description of Lindeth Howe, Windermere 2001
Folder 15 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1933 1933, 2004, undated
Folder 16 Letters to The Herald regarding ramblers and vandalism on Lake District properties 1933
Folder 17 Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding animals 1902-1930, 2004, undated
Folder 18 Beatrix Potter’s appreciation for country furniture 1925-1997, undated
Folder 19 Yew Tree Farm 1932-2007, undated
Folder 20/20* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1934 1934, undated
Folder 21 Beatrix Potter letter to Bertha Mahony Miller regarding furniture 1934 December 13
Folder 22 Mr. Bolton reminiscence about Beatrix Potter recounted by Harvey May 2002
Folder 23 Bruce L. Thompson undated
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Chapter 19, “Passages”
Box 19A/19B
Folder 1 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1935 1935, undated
Folder 2/2* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1936 1936, 2005, undated
Folder 3/3* Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding nurses and Girl Guides 1930-1943, undated
Folder 4 Jean Duke reminiscence about Beatrix Potter and her driver, Walter Stevens 2001, undated
Folder 5 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Ivy and June Steel 1924-1927, 1977, undated
Folder 6 Ivy and June Steel’s visit to Beatrix Potter, July 1936 1936, 1992
Folder 7 Noel Moore’s visit to Beatrix Potter, 1936 1936, 2006
Folder 8 “Beatrix Potter and the Moores,” lecture by Selwyn Goodacre 2004
Folder 9 Penny Hill Farm 1946, undated
Folder 10 Josefina and H. D. (Delmar) Banner 2001-2005, undated
Folder 11 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Josefina and H. D. (Delmar) Banner 1936-1939, undated
Folder 12 “Posted at Sawrey: Selections from Letters Set in a Patchwork,” by Josefina Banner 1961, undated
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Folder 13 “Recollections of Beatrix Potter,” transcript of Elizabeth Battrick interview of Josefina Banner 1990 April 4
Folder 14 “Memories of Beatrix Potter,” by H. D. (Delmar) Banner 1946
Folder 15 “Encounters with Beatrix Potter,” by W. R. Mitchell 1986 June
Folder 16 Excerpts from and notes on Beatrix Potter: Her Life in the Lake District, by W. R. Mitchell 1998-2002, undated
Folder 17 Review of Beatrix Potter Remembered, by W. R. Mitchell 1987
Folder 18 Excerpts from and notes on Game Cock & Countryman, by R. D. Humber 1966-2004, undated
Folder 19 High Park and Grenfell Park purchase undated
Folder 20 Beatrix Potter and Bruce L. Thompson 1936, 2001-2005, undated
Folder 21/21* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1937 1937, undated
Folder 22 Notes and Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding Rebekah Owen and her Thomas Hardy collection 1939-1942, 2005, undated
Folder 23/23* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1938 1938, undated
Chapter 20, “Challenges”
Box 20
Folder 1 Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1939 1939, 1998, undated
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Folder 2 Beatrix Potter’s illnesses and surgeries 1924-2006
Folder 3 Lake District during the Second World War 1998-2005
Folder 4 Beatrix Potter correspondence regarding Germans 1924-1935
Folder 5/5* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1940 1940, undated
Folder 6 William Hyde Parker and Melford Hall 2003-2004, undated
Folder 7 National Bank of Germantown and Trust Company letter regarding Marian Frazer Harris Perry 1940 July 2
Folder 8 “Beatrix Potter and Her Nursery Classics,” by Bertha Mahony Miller 1941
Folder 9 “Wag-by-Wall” 1940-2005, undated
Folder 10/10* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1941 1941, undated
Folder 11 Photograph of Hill Top Farm during the Second World War circa 1940
Folder 12 Photograph of Margaret (Daisy) Hammond, Cecily Mills, and an unidentified woman undated
Chapter 21, “Reflections”
Box 21
Folder 1 John Kingston Stone’s 1939 visit to Beatrix Potter 1939-1987
Folder 2/2* Reginald and Alison Hart 1942-1943, 1992 44
Folder 3 “The Cunningham Letters,” lecture by Judy Taylor 2011 September 20
Folder 4 “The Chinese Umbrella,” 1942 1942, 1992-2002, undated
Folder 5/5* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1942 1942, undated
Folder 6 Beatrix Potter author biography form for the Horn Book 1942
Folder 7 “The Lonely Hills,” 1942 1942, 2005
Folder 8 Beatrix Potter and fell ponies 2004
Folder 9/9* Beatrix Potter’s interest in penicillin 2005, undated
Folder 10 Excerpts from Mushrooms & Toadstools: A Study of the Activities of Fungi, by John Ramsbottom 1953
Folder 11 Excerpts from Antibiotics: A Survey of Their Properties and Uses, Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1952
Folder 12 Excerpts from The Birth of Penicillin and the Disarming of Microbes, by Ronald Hare 1970
Folder 13 Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin 1959-2004, undated
Folder 14 Girl Guides holiday camp and birthday party for Beatrix Potter 1942-1943, 2002, undated
Folder 15/15* Chronology and Beatrix Potter correspondence, 1943 1943, undated
Folder 16 Beatrix Potter’s response to “The World of Beatrix Potter,” by Janet Adam Smith 1943
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Folder 17 George Walker letter to Joseph Moscrop regarding Troutbeck Park Farm 1943 June 15
Folder 18 Lucy Walker’s death 1945, undated
Folder 19 Farming accounts for Hill Top Farm, Troutbeck Park Farm, and Tilberthwaite Farm 1937-1943
Folder 20 Edward L. Parker letter to Beatrix Potter regarding the sale of Tower Bank 1943 November 29
Folder 21 Beatrix Potter as president-elect of the Herdwick Sheep Breeders’ Association 1943
Folder 22 Beatrix Potter notes regarding the provenance of her antiques and art at Hill Top Farm undated
Folder 23 Mary Agnes Rogerson, Beatrix Potter’s housekeeper 1966 July 29, undated
Folder 24 Beatrix Potter letter to Joseph Moscrop 1943 December 13
Folder 25 Obituaries for Beatrix Potter 1943-1944, 1982-2005, undated
Folder 26 Cremation of Beatrix Potter 2006, undated
Folder 27 “A Walk Amongst the Funguses,” by Beatrix Potter 1971, undated
Folder 28 “Over the Hills and Far Away, or, Buttercup Land,” poem by Beatrix Potter undated
Folder 29 “Over the Ferry, Where Mountains Are Blue,” poem by Beatrix Potter undated
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Epilogue, “Stewardship”
Box 22
Folder 1 Beatrix Potter’s death certificate and will 1939-1944, undated
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter’s estate documents and list of beneficiaries 1944-1945
Folder 3 Schedule of Beatrix Potter’s stocks and shares of companies for probate circa 1944
Folder 4 List of tenants on Beatrix Potter’s properties undated
Folder 5 Letter to the inspector of taxes regarding Beatrix Potter’s income tax on Belmount Hall 1943 December 14
Folder 6 William Heelis correspondence 1944-1945
Folder 7* Madeleine Davidson letter to William Heelis regarding Beatrix Potter’s bequest 1944 April 13
Folder 8 Susan Ludbrook letter to John Heelis regarding her interest in a caretaker position at Hill Top Farm 1945 November 13
Folder 9 Beatrix Potter’s instructions for the disposition of her personal property after her death undated
Folder 10 Inventory and valuation of Castle Cottage 1944 January 4
Folder 11 Beatrix Potter’s books found at Hill Top Farm 1993-2001, undated
Folder 12 John Heelis letter to H. D. (Delmar) Banner regarding the disposition of Beatrix Potter’s art collection 1945 September 17
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Folder 13 William Heelis letter to the British Museum regarding the disposition of Beatrix Potter’s artwork 1944 January 22
Folder 14 Jean Duke letter to Sally Floyer regarding the disposition of Beatrix Potter’s property 1988 March 6
Folder 15 “Recollections of Beatrix Potter,” by Bruce L. Thompson circa 1952
Folder 16 Beatrix Potter’s book royalties 1944, 2004
Folder 17 Obituary for William Heelis 1945 August
Folder 18 William Heelis’s will circa 1944
Folder 19 Beatrix Potter properties transferred to the National Trust 1919-2002, undated
Folder 20 Schedule of leases and agreements handed to the National Trust 1945
Folder 21 “Beatrix Potter’s Gift to the Public,” by Bruce L. Thompson 1944 March 3
Folder 22 “‘This Quixotic Venture’: Beatrix Potter and the National Trust,” by Susan Denyer 1992
Folder 23 James Lees-Milne’s memoires on the National Trust 1945, 2004, undated
Folder 24 Lake District National Park 1936-2005, undated
Folder 25 “The Lure of the Lakes,” lecture by John Nettleton 2001
Folder 26 Cumbria Magazine articles on Beatrix Potter’s legacy and farming in the Lake District 2003-2006 48
Folder 27 “Legacy of Unsung Worker Is Being Lost,” by Humphrey Phelps 2004 December
Folder 28 Beatrix Potter and the future of hill farming in the Lake District 1930-2005
Folder 29 National Trust’s vision for the Lake District after the 2001 foot- and-mouth outbreak 2001-2002
Folder 30 National Trust plan to divide High Yewdale Farm 2005-2006, undated
Series 2. Original Version and Publication
Box 23A/23B/23C
Folder 1 Book proposal undated
Folder 2 Notes, correspondence, and drafts for prologue 2003-2006, undated
Folder 3 Notes, outlines, and drafts for chapter 1 2004, undated
Folder 4 Notes, outlines, chronologies, and drafts for chapter 2 2003, undated
Folder 5 Libby Joy’s comments on prologue and chapters 1 and 2 2003 May 14
Folder 6 Robert K. Webb’s comments on prologue and chapters 1 and 2 2003, undated
Folder 7 Notes, chronologies, and drafts for chapter 3 2003, undated
Folder 8 Chronology and drafts for chapter 4 2003, undated
Folder 9 Robert K. Webb’s comments on chapter 4 undated
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Folder 10 Notes, outlines, chronologies, and drafts for chapter 5 2002-2003, undated
Folder 11 Robert K. Webb’s comments on chapter 5 undated
Folder 12 Roy Watling’s comments on chapter 5 2004
Folder 13 Notes, outlines, and chronologies for chapter 6 undated
Folder 14 Correspondence, outlines, chronologies, and drafts for chapter 7 2003-2004, undated
Folder 15 Correspondence, outlines, chronologies, and drafts for chapter 8 2004, undated
Folder 16 Draft for chapter 9 2004
Folder 17 Correspondence, outlines, chronologies, and drafts for chapter 11 2005, undated
Folder 18 Notes, correspondence, outlines, and chronologies for chapter 12 2005, undated
Folder 19 Notes, outlines, and chronologies for chapter 13 2004-2005, undated
Folder 20 Notes, outlines, and chronologies for chapter 14 2004, undated
Folder 21 Notes, outlines, chronologies, and drafts for chapter 15 undated
Folder 22 Notes, outlines, and chronologies for chapter 16 undated
Folder 23 Notes and outline for epilogue undated
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Folder 24 Libby Joy’s replies to research questions 2003-2005, undated
Folder 25 Miscellaneous chronologies 1971-2004, undated
Folder 26 Lists of Beatrix Potter quotations 2002-2003, undated
Folder 27 Notes, correspondence, lists, and proofs for illustrations and captions 2005-2006, undated
Folder 28 Notes and correspondence for map of Beatrix Potter’s Lakeland 2002-2006, undated
Folder 29 Notes, correspondence, and drafts for acknowledgements 2006, undated
Folder 30 Lists of magazine articles about Beatrix Potter undated
Folder 31 Permissions to publish 2005-2007, undated
Folder 32 Publication notices and reviews of Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature 2007
Series 3. Related Research Materials
Legal documents and obituaries
Box 24
Folder 1 Beatrix Potter’s birth certificate 1866 August 4
Folder 2 Correspondence regarding Bertram Potter’s birth (1872 March 14) 2003
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Folder 3 Certificate and announcements of Beatrix Potter and William Heelis’s marriage (1913 October 15) 1913
Folder 4 Extract from the City of Edinburgh register regarding Bertram Potter and Mary Welsh Scott’s marriage (1902 November 20) 1977
Folder 5 Notes on Potter family wills undated
Folder 6 Clara Potter’s will 1906, undated
Folder 7 Harriet (Leech) Burton’s death and will 1905, 2002, undated
Folder 8/8A Schedule of Beatrix Potter’s land conveyances and notes on Potter/Heelis family papers circa 1943, circa 2004 **oversized Folder 8A located in map drawer
Folder 9 Horn Book obituary for Leslie Linder 1973 August
Folder 10 Enid Linder’s will 1981
Beatrix Potter’s family life
Box 24
Folder 11 Religion, Unitarian connections, and churches 2001-2003, undated
Folder 12 Lists of Beatrix Potter correspondence to Fanny and Charlie Cooper undated
Folder 13 Mary Potter letter to Beatrix Potter 1933 December 24
Folder 14* Beatrix Potter correspondence to Margaret Hutton (Hetty) Douglas 1942-1943 52
Folder 15 Gaddum family 1973, undated
Folder 16 Heelis family 1991-2005, undated
Folder 17 Nicholson family 2004-2009
Folder 18 Lists of Beatrix Potter correspondence to the Nicholsons 2001, undated
Folder 19* Beatrix Potter correspondence to the Nicholsons 1915-1937
Folder 20 Nancy Nicholson correspondence to Leslie Linder 1966, circa 1970
Potter/Leech family homes and holiday houses
Box 24
Folder 21 Images of and notes on Potter/Leech homes and holiday houses 1898, undated
Folder 22 John Clegg correspondence to Judy Taylor regarding Potter holiday houses 1990-1994
Folder 23 Gwaynynog, Denbighshire 1895, 1994-1997, undated
Folder 24 House of Hird 1997
Folder 25 Bush Hall, Hatfield undated
Folder 26 Bedwell Lodge, Hertfordshire 2000 August
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Potter family photographs
Box 24
Folder 27 Photographs of Beatrix Potter at various ages circa 1870-1943
Folder 28 Photographs of Potter family friends undated
Folder 29 Photographs from and notes on Bertram Potter’s scrapbook undated
Folder 30 Notes on Rupert Potter’s photograph album undated
Beatrix Potter photographs
Box 25
Folder 1 Photograph of horse and cart used as a model for page 76 of The Tale of Pigling Bland, possibly attributable to Beatrix Potter undated
Folder 2 Beatrix Potter photographs of Pace Eggers undated
Folder 3 Beatrix Potter photographs of ducks, a farmyard, and Timothy Askew’s cart circa 1915, undated
Beatrix Potter art sales and exhibits
Box 25
Folder 4 Notes on sales catalogs 2001, undated
Folder 5 Exhibits of Beatrix Potter works at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1972-2001
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Folder 6 Excerpt from a Sotheby’s catalog showing a Beatrix Potter drawing of a ring-tailed field mouse 2001
Folder 7 Notice of the sale of A Happy Pair, Beatrix Potter’s first published illustration work undated
Folder 8 Newspaper article regarding Beatrix Potter watercolors on the Antiques Roadshow 2003 September 5
Folder 9 BBC article regarding Sotheby’s auction of The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit 1999 November 19
Beatrix Potter writings
Box 25
Folder 10 Beatrix Potter notes on furniture design and carving undated
Folder 11 Beatrix Potter on William Wordsworth at Hawkshead undated
Folder 12 Fragment of The Fairy Caravan undated
Folder 13 “Xarifa and Tuppenny: A Story” undated
Folder 14 Beatrix Potter on Troutbeck Tongue undated
Folder 15 “Wasted Land” undated
Folder 16 Sketch for a story at Gwaynynog, Denbighshire undated
Folder 17 Fragment of Beatrix Potter memorandum on farming matters undated
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Folder 18 Beatrix Potter essay on elder flowers undated
Folder 19 “The Wanderings of a Small Black Cat” undated
Folder 20 Beatrix Potter poem “I Will Go Back to the Hills Again” undated
Folder 21 Introduction to “Marigold Garden” undated
Folder 22 Beatrix Potter’s preface to Rhymes of the Wee Folk, by Edith R. Todhunter (1936) 1993, undated
Folder 23 “Fairy Rings” undated
Folder 24 Beatrix Potter note about the fox terrier Jip undated
Folder 25 “When Is a House Unoccupied” undated
Folder 26 Beatrix Potter on the Lake District town of Kendal undated
Folder 27 Beatrix Potter essay on cats undated
Folder 28 Music inspired by Beatrix Potter writings 2001-2002
Beatrix Potter picture letters
Box 25
Folder 29 Notes on Beatrix Potter picture letters 1966, 2011, undated
Folder 30 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Noel and Eric Moore 1892
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Folder 31 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Noel and Eric Moore 1893
Folder 32 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Noel and Eric Moore 1894
Folder 33 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Noel and Eric Moore 1895
Folder 34 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Noel and Eric Moore 1896
Folder 35 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Freda and Noel Moore 1897
Folder 36 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Freda and Eric Moore 1898
Folder 37 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Freda Moore 1899 January 13
Folder 38 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Freda, Marjorie, Noel, and Eric Moore 1900
Folder 39 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Nora Moore 1901 September 1
Folder 40 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Freda Moore 1902 October 6
Folder 41 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Winifred Warne 1906 April 14
Folder 42 Beatrix Potter picture letters to Louisa Ferguson and Winifred Warne 1908
Folder 43 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Margaret Hough 1910 December 20
Folder 44 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Louie Warne 1911 August 12
Folder 45 Beatrix Potter picture letter to Francisca Burn 1912 August 57
Unitarianism
Box 26
Folder 1 Excerpts from The Unitarian Heritage: An Architectural Survey of Chapels and Churches in the Unitarian Tradition in the British Isles, by Graham Hague and H. J. McLachlan 1986
Folder 2 Robert J. Naeher review of Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860, by Ruth Watts 2000
Folder 3 Notting Hill Gate Chapel/Essex Church 1939-1942, undated
Folder 4 “The Background: English Unitarianism in the Nineteenth Century,” by R. K. Webb 2004
Folder 5 Notes and correspondence regarding Unitarianism and Unitarian leaders 2000-2003, undated
Biographical information
Box 26
Folder 6 Identifications 2001-2009, undated
Folder 7 Biographies from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-2005
Folder 8 William and Elizabeth Gaskell 1966-1998, undated
Folder 9 William Gaskell letter to Beatrix Potter regarding his trip to Scotland 1877 August 23
Folder 10 Notes and correspondence regarding the Moscrop letters 2000-2001, undated
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Folder 11 Margaret Lane correspondence to Joseph Moscrop 1944-1948, undated
Folder 12 Hardwicke Rawnsley 1923-2002, undated
Folder 13 Beatrix Potter correspondence to Hardwicke Rawnsley 1913-1927
Folder 14* Hardwicke Rawnsley letter to Rupert Potter 1897 November 5
Folder 15 Photographs and history of Wray Castle and Wray Church undated
Folder 16 Charles Mallet 1895, 1996-2003
Folder 17 Roscoe family 1977-2003, undated
Folder 18 “Separating Scientific Fact from Fiction: A Closer Examination of Sir Henry Roscoe’s Relationship with His Niece, Beatrix Potter,” by Richard A. Crandall 2000-2001
Memoires, interviews, and biographical works on Beatrix Potter
Box 27
Folder 1 Willow Taylor memoire of Beatrix Potter 2000 March 17
Folder 2 Ann Fearnhill and Judy Taylor correspondence regarding Beatrix Potter’s attitude toward children 1990, undated
Folder 3 Mary Moore letter to Linda Lear with reminiscence of Beatrix Potter 2004 May 9
Folder 4 Cissy Clarke’s memories of Beatrix Potter in “Tales of Beatrix Potter,” by John Mote 1995
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Folder 5 “The Myth Surrounding Beatrix Potter,” by Hieke Jippes undated
Folder 6 Lucy Holmes and May Moore reminiscences of Beatrix Potter 1998 October
Folder 7 “Memories of Sludger and Beatrix Potter,” by R. D. Humber 1985 August 23
Folder 8 “Teller of Tales: Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943,” in Lake Country Portraits, by Hugh Ashton Lawrence Rice 1967
Folder 9 Compilation of David Henry Beckett’s recollections of Beatrix Potter’s family 2002 January
Folder 10 Judy Taylor interview of David Henry Beckett and letter from the Beckett family 1989-2001
Folder 11 Westmorland Gazette articles on David Henry Beckett 2000-2001
Folder 12 Beatrix Potter letter regarding David Henry Beckett 1933 September 19
Folder 13 Elizabeth Battrick interview of David Henry Beckett 1990 May 11
Folder 14 July Taylor interviews of Beatrix Moore Hammarling, Beatrix Potter’s goddaughter 1985-1986
Folder 15 “Tales of the Real Beatrix Potter,” by Paula Weideger 1993 October 6
Folder 16 “Beatrix Potter and Her Lake District with Some Personal Reminiscences,” by Christopher Hanson-Smith 1991
Folder 17 Interview of Jessie Kenyon of Hawkshead 2002 May 9
Folder 18 Excerpts from A Walk Around the Lakes, by Hunter Davies 1979-2002 60
Folder 19 Alice Atkinson memories of 1920s Heelis Christmas parties in Sawrey 2001 December
Folder 20 Review of Cousin Beatie: A Memory of Beatrix Potter, by Ulla Hyde Parker circa 1981
Folder 21 Recollections of Susan Ludbrook, first curator of Hill Top Farm 1966-1999, undated
Folder 22 Susan Ludbrook article on Beatrix Potter, her family, and her journal 1966
Folder 23 Correspondence between Susan Ludbrook and Leslie Linder 1959-1968, undated
Folder 24 Recollections of Beatrix Potter solicited by Leslie Linder 1972, undated
Folder 25 Leslie Linder letter regarding Beatrix Potter’s stories for children undated
Folder 26 Margaret (Daisy) Hammond correspondence to Leslie Linder 1956-1970
Folder 27 Notes and correspondence regarding Margaret Lane letters to Margaret (Daisy) Hammond 2004, undated
Folder 28 Margaret Lane correspondence to Leslie Linder 1963-1972
Folder 29 Reviews of Margaret Lane’s The Tale of Beatrix Potter circa 1946-2004
Folder 30 Notes and correspondence regarding Margaret Lane 2003, undated
Folder 31 “The Other Potter,” by Anthony Lambert 2002
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Children’s literature and Beatrix Potter as a children’s writer
Box 28
Folder 1 Excerpts from the Dictionary of Literary Biography on Helen Bannerman and Edith Nesbit undated
Folder 2 Excerpts from A Treasury of the Great Children’s Book Illustrators, by Susan E. Meyer 1983
Folder 3 Descriptions of Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes (1917) 1971, undated
Folder 4 Notes on Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White, by Roger Sale undated
Folder 5 “Peter Rabbit, We Like You as You Are,” in Country Life 2001 July 12
Folder 6 “Fair Tale, Folklore and Rhyme” exhibition at the Beatrix Potter Gallery 2000-2001
Folder 7 Notes on Leslie Linder’s comments on “The Tale of the Faithful Dove” (1907) undated
Folder 8 Critiques of Beatrix Potter’s books 2004, undated
Folder 9 Excerpts from “The Subversive Element in Beatrix Potter,” by Humphrey Carpenter 1989
Folder 10 Excerpts from Suitable for Children?: Controversies in Children’s Literature, edited and introduced by Nicholas Tucker 1978
Folder 11 Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature entry on Beatrix Potter 1984
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Folder 12 “Beatrix Potter: A Critical Estimate,” by Graham Greene 1933
Folder 13 Notes on “Americans Look at Beatrix Potter,” by Elaine R. Jacobsen undated
Folder 14 Notes on The Remarkable Beatrix Potter, by Alexander Grinstein undated
Folder 15 “Beatrix Potter’s English Rabbits,” by Jopi Nyman 1999
Folder 16 “Drawing Cards: Illustrated Children’s Books,” by Anne Leighton circa 2000
Folder 17 “The Aliveness of Peter Rabbit,” by Maurice Sendak 1965
Folder 18 “The Seeing Eye,” by Robin Stemp 1990 March
Folder 19 “Beatrix Potter and Aestheticism,” by Margaret Stetz 2001
Folder 20 “Happy Homes,” by Alan Powers 1993
Folder 21 “More Tales of Beatrix Potter,” by Peter Hinson 1993 February 23
Folder 22 “George Melly on the Darkly Terrifying The Tale of Mr. Tod by Beatrix Potter” 1995 May 28
Folder 23 “Read in Tooth and Claw,” by Nick Garland 1983 July 16
Folder 24 “A Tale of Some Tails, and the Story of Their Shy Creator,” by Timothy Foote 1989 January
Folder 25 “Beatrix Potter’s Places,” by Alison Smithson 1967 December 63
Folder 26 “Beatrix Potter’s Magic,” by Susan Wittig Albert 1996/1997
Folder 27 “The Other World of Beatrix Potter,” by Joyce Irene Whalley 1988 May
Folder 28 Cartoons referring to Beatrix Potter and her books 1979-2000, undated
Lake District
Box 29
Folder 1 Brochures, notecards, and postcards from the Lake District undated
Folder 2 “Gardens in England’s Lake District,” by George Plumptre 1986 August
Folder 3 Hawkshead local history undated
Folder 4 Lakeland Walks from Beatrix Potter, by Wynne Bartlett 1982
Folder 5 “Beatrix Potter and Her 100 Year-Old Peter Rabbit Still Influence the English Landscape,” by Linden Groves 2002
Beatrix Potter as a natural historian and scientific illustrator
Box 29
Folder 6 “Beatrix Potter, Scientific Illustrator” and “The Tale before Peter Rabbit,” by Robert McCracken Peck 1990-1996, undated
Folder 7 “Beatrix Potter and Perthshire Natural History,” by Michael A. Taylor 1988
Folder 8 “Beatrix Potter and the Anthropomorphic Impulse,” by Lionel Lambourne 1988 64
Folder 9 Maureen Lambourne lecture on Beatrix Potter and natural history illustration undated
Environmental history
Box 29
Folder 10 Notes on Ruskin and Environment: The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Michael Wheeler undated
Folder 11 Brochures and correspondence regarding the Ruskin Museum, Brantwood, and the Ruskin Library 2000, undated
Folder 12 Notes on Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens, by Lucile H. Brockway undated
Folder 13 Notes on Nature’s Museums, by Carla Yanni undated
Folder 14 Excerpts from and notes on Three Founders of the British Conservation Movement, 1865-1895: Sir Robert Hunter, Octavia Hill, and Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, dissertation by Beth Ann McGaffey 1978, undated
Folder 15 Notes on An Environmental History of Twentieth-century Britain, by John Sheail undated
Folder 16 Excerpts from An Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution, by B. W. Clapp 1994
Folder 17 Excerpts from and notes on A Flora of Cumbria, by Geoffrey Halliday 1997, undated
Folder 18 Bibliographies of British environmental history 2003, undated
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Women, class, and society in Victorian England
Box 29
Folder 19 “On the Study of Science by Women,” by Lydia Ernestine Becker 1869
Folder 20 Linnean editorial on Charles Lyell and Victorian attitudes on women’s education circa 1997
Folder 21 Notes on Barbara Caine works about English feminism undated
Folder 22 Notes on Girls Growing up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England, by Carol Dyhouse undated
Folder 23 “The Language of ‘Class’ in Early Nineteenth-Century England,” by Asa Briggs 1985
Folder 24 Notes on In Search of Victorian Values: Aspects of Nineteenth- Century Thought and Society, edited by Eric M. Sigworth undated
Folder 25 “The Perfect Victorian Lady,” introduction to Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age, edited by Martha Vicinus 1972
Folder 26 Excerpts from Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, by Phyllis Rose 1984
Folder 27 Excerpts from Marianne North at Kew Gardens, by Laura Ponsonby 1990
Libraries, archives, and museums
Box 30A/30B
Folder 1 Lists of Beatrix Potter Society holdings 2002-2007, undated 66
Folder 2 List of Beatrix Potter Society speakers from 1981 through 1999 undated
Folder 3 “Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman,” lecture given by Judy Taylor to the Beatrix Potter Society undated
Folder 4 Ivy Trent lecture on the Cotsen Children’s Library, given to the Beatrix Potter Society 1999
Folder 5 Correspondence regarding the Ambleside Oral History Group 2002
Folder 6 Lists of Beatrix Potter books, correspondence, and fungus studies in the Armitt Library and Museum 2000-2003, undated
Folder 7 Eileen Jay’s notes and Beatrix Potter correspondence in the Armitt Library and Museum 1897, undated
Folder 8 Lists of and correspondence regarding materials at the Beatrix Potter Gallery, Hawkshead 2000-2002, undated
Folder 9 Catalog for the Linder Collection of Beatrix Potter works and drawings 1996
Folder 10 Inventory for the Linder Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum undated
Folder 11 Notes and correspondence regarding the Linder Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum 2000-2003, undated
Folder 12 Correspondence regarding the Cumbria Records Offices, Carlisle and Kendal 2000-2002
Folder 13 Correspondence with the National Trust regarding Beatrix Potter property deeds 2001-2002 67
Folder 14 Correspondence regarding research at the Manchester Central Library and the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester 2001-2003, undated
Folder 15 Correspondence regarding Beatrix Potter materials at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds 2002
Folder 16 Notes on research at the Athenaeum Club Library and the Reform Club Library and Archives undated
Folder 17 Inventories of and correspondence regarding Beatrix Potter materials at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery 2000-2003, undated
Folder 18 Brochure, newsletters, and correspondence regarding Gorse Hall, Stalybridge 2001-2002, undated
Folder 19 Newsletter and correspondence regarding Stalybridge Unitarian Church 2001, undated
Folder 20 Catalog of and notes on Beatrix Potter materials at the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton University 2001, undated
Folder 21 Inventory for and correspondence regarding “Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit: A Centenary Celebration from the Collections of Grolier Club Members” 2001-2002
Folder 22 Lists, records, and thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter materials at the Pierpont Morgan Library 2001, undated
Folder 23 Photocopies of Beatrix Potter sketches in the Osborne Collection, Toronto Public Library 2002, undated
Folder 24 Guide, finding aid, notes, and correspondence for Beatrix Potter materials at the Free Library of Philadelphia 1992-2002, undated
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Folder 25 Images and records from Warne image archives 1880-1938, 2006, undated
Folder 26 Thumbnail images of landscapes and garden backgrounds for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 1903, undated
Folder 27 Thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter landscapes of the Lake District, with comments by drawing society members 1900-1913, undated
Folder 28 Thumbnail images of Potter family members and sketches by Beatrix Potter and Bertram Potter 1878-1894, undated
Folder 29 List of thumbnail images of Hardwicke and Eleanor Rawnsley undated
Folder 30 Thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter with her governesses undated
Folder 31 Thumbnail images of Charles Macintosh undated
Folder 32 Thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter as a child circa 1870-1880
Folder 33 Thumbnail images of Potter family members and William Gaskell circa 1870-1885
Folder 34 Records of thumbnail images of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe undated
Folder 35 Thumbnail image of Beatrix Potter watercolor “A Dream of Toasted Cheese” 1899
Folder 36 Thumbnail image of a portrait of Jessie Crompton circa 1820
Folder 37 Thumbnail images of Heelis family members 1913-circa 1930, undated
Folder 38 Thumbnail images of Sir John Everett Millais 1880, undated 69
Folder 39 Thumbnail image of Edith (Potter) Gaddum and her children undated
Folder 40 Thumbnail image of Caroline Hutton undated
Folder 41 Thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter correspondence to Margaret Hutton 1897
Folder 42 Thumbnail images of Potter family photographs, artwork, and artifacts circa 1870-1912, undated
Folder 43 Thumbnail images of Warne family members 1906, undated
Folder 44 Thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter drawings of plants and animals 1876-1895, undated
Folder 45 Thumbnail images of Beatrix Potter picture letters at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1893-1901, undated
Folder 46 Record for photograph of Anne Carroll Moore undated
Visual and audio materials
Box 31
Videotape of documentary Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman, written and co-directed by Judy Taylor 1993
Videotape of The Secret World of Beatrix Potter, by Michael Deakin circa 1980
Videotape of “Fantasy & Fungi: Science & Imagination in the Life of Beatrix Potter,” lecture by Linda Lear 2004 October 6
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Videotape of Anne Hobbs interview of Lucie Carr undated
Videotape of interviews at Hill Top Farm, part I 1996 July
Videotape of interviews at Hill Top Farm, part II—Mary Noble, Willow Taylor, and Mary Leviston undated
Audiocassette of BBC Radio 4 program on Beatrix Potter 2002 October 10
Audiocassette of Free Library of Philadelphia colloquium on Beatrix Potter 1966 October 16
CD of BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week program on Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (2 copies) 2006 December 25 to 29
CD and manuscript of “Through the Lens of Rupert Potter: A Selection from the Beatrix Potter Society’s Collection of Photographs,” lecture by Jenny Akester 2008 March 1
CD of Rupert Potter’s photographs undated
Map drawer
Ordnance survey map of Far Sawrey and environs 1914
Ordnance survey map of Near Sawrey and Esthwaite 1914
Ordnance survey map showing Troutbeck Park Farm undated
Map of Monk Coniston circa 1930