Beatrix Potter 150 - Lake District First Day Cover

Beatrix Potter 150th anniversary on Yew Tree Farm, Coniston design, featuring the complete set of six character stamps from her tales. Produced in partnership with Yew Tree Farm which Beatrix once owned in the Lake District, postmarked at Coniston 28.07.16.

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Peter Rabbit™: Beatrix Potter conceived her tale of Peter Rabbit on 4 September 1893 in an illustrated letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of her friend and former governess, Annie Moore. Noel was recovering from a bout of scarlet fever so Beatrix amused him with a story based upon her real pet rabbit, Peter Piper: 'I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits, whose names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter…' [INFO; V&A Museum website]