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Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit

0.03 Cubic Feet One letter-size file folder

This collection contains a manuscript album created by Fanny Hutchinson King English (1871–1944) as a gift for her daughter Mary (1904–1976) in 1907, when Mary was three years old. A bookseller's ticket is affixed to the pastedown, and a gift inscription reading "Mary Dennis English. March 10, 1907" appears on the opposite pastedown. The album comprises twenty-eight pages of manuscript and watercolor illustration and contains three pieces of correspondence laid in. One side of the dos-a-dos book duplicates a post-1903 edition of Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in manuscript and watercolor illustration, identifiable as a post-1903 edition by the substitution of "Peter shed big tears" for the first edition's "Peter wept." The reverse side contains six original botanical and landscape watercolors by Mary English, executed at an unspecified later date. Two watercolors are laid in: a collection of daisies inscribed "Mama darling" on verso, and a horse labeled "Limerick" on recto with the inscription "To darling, darling Mummy from Mary" on verso, dated 1918. The three pieces of correspondence laid in include letters from Mary's grandmother Rachel Anne English (1832–1920) and from Fanny to Mary, written across Mary's childhood and adulthood.

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Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit 0.03 Cubic Feet One letter-size file folder

This collection contains a manuscript album created by Fanny Hutchinson King English (1871–1944) as a gift for her daughter Mary (1904–1976) in 1907, when Mary was three years old. A bookseller's ticket is affixed to the pastedown, and a gift inscription reading "Mary Dennis English. March 10, 1907" appears on the opposite pastedown. The album comprises twenty-eight pages of manuscript and watercolor illustration and contains three pieces of correspondence laid in. One side of the dos-a-dos book duplicates a post-1903 edition of Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" in manuscript and watercolor illustration, identifiable as a post-1903 edition by the substitution of "Peter shed big tears" for the first edition's "Peter wept." The reverse side contains six original botanical and landscape watercolors by Mary English, executed at an unspecified later date. Two watercolors are laid in: a collection of daisies inscribed "Mama darling" on verso, and a horse labeled "Limerick" on recto with the inscription "To darling, darling Mummy from Mary" on verso, dated 1918. The three pieces of correspondence laid in include letters from Mary's grandmother Rachel Anne English (1832–1920) and from Fanny to Mary, written across Mary's childhood and adulthood.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.

7.5 Cubic Feet 12 document boxes, 2 os boxes and 1 cubic box

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.

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Hand-painted postcards, drawn in black ink, depicting children playing outside (Addition 2) 2023-0064 0.04 Cubic Feet legal size folder Box 2, Folder 5

Addition 2 of MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains seven hand-painted postcards presumably created by Elisabeth, the sender. The postcards, drawn in black ink, depict children playing outside: a child pushing another child's sled; two children talking under a tree in spring/summer; two children playing with a balloon; a girl having a picnic with a bunny; one older and one younger girl in the snow; an older girl on a swing; and a girl on a dock by a body of water.

  1. Series 3. 1900-1980

Melba Tice handcrafted notebook titled "Punctuation Party" that uses racial and stereotypical nomenclature and depictions such as "Mammy" and Clorinda Colon as an old maid (Addition 30) 2024-0019 0.04 Cubic Feet letter folder? Box 9, Folder 2

This collection consists of a handmade notebook titled Punctuation Party by Melba Tice. The book presents punctuations as characters with rhymes and cutouts from 19th-century editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as well as contemporary advertisements, explaining punctuation rules. Some punctuation characters are not from Carroll, and their descriptions illustrate cultural viewpoints of the time period, including a racist depiction of a "mammy' figure and a Clorinda Colon" as an old maid figure.

  1. Series 3. 1900-1980

Nancy F. and Mary A. Hackett artworks (Addition 59) 2024-0105 0.04 Cubic Feet Box 12, Folder 4

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building., contains the artworks of two sisters from Maine, Mary A. Hackett (1830-1908) and Nancy F. (1825-1883) Hackett. The works include watercolors, prose, a reward of Merritt, and two cartes de visite of their great-grandfather Hacket and Aunt Mary Hacket.

  1. Series 2. 1800-1971

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