A four-page letter to ‘dear little William Warner’, up for auction this weekend, explains how she has ‘thinked and thinked’ about another sequel without success
Beatrix Potter told a young fan in 1908 that she was “trying dreadfully hard to think about another story about ‘Peter’” because “all the little boys and girls like the rabbits best”.
Begged by her young correspondent, “dear little William Warner”, for another story featuring Peter Rabbit, who at that point had featured in Potter’s first book, 1901’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and 1904’s The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Potter told him that she had been attempting to write one, but had not yet succeeded. She wrote: “I thinked and thinked and thinked last year; but I didn’t think enough to fill a book! … So I made a story about Jemima Puddleduck instead – and it will be in the shops very soon. I hope you will like it.”
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