A letter from children's writer Beatrix Potter voicing her disdain at 'vulgar' wartime cocktail parties has come to light. The letter, dated November 1, 1943, was to her friend Katherine Brooke, who she set up a local nursing service with. Potter wrote: 'I got a postcard - 'Will you drink with us any time after 5.30?' The letter may well have been one of the last penned by Potter as she died just seven weeks later of pneumonia. Potter published 23 books in all, finishing with Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922), a collection of her favourite rhymes.

Source: Daily Mail June 23, 2020 10:53 UTC