Beatrix Potter: Rabbits Throwing Snowballs Mug Medieval

Beatrix Potter: Rabbits Throwing Snowballs Mug MedievalBeatrix Potter often wrote personal letters to children and referenced her stories with drawings. Her illustrated letters are among the most treasured keepsakes within the Morgan Library and Museums collection. This adorable mug depicts a detail of an illustration from one of her letters. In this letter Potter touches on several topics including the winter weather, a pet cat, and the latest antics of Peter Rabbit. The transcription of the letter is as

Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie

Sophus Helle’s translations replicate the intensity and imagery of the original hymns—literary time bombs that have lain buried for millennia

is beautifully reproduced in this set of eight notecards with envelopes

In the years she spent away from society

” who dropped a bombshell at her death: she left her entire multimillion-dollar estate to women’s suffrage—a never-equaled amount that guaranteed passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

An initial orientation introduces the origins

and the terrifying forces of nature

including one with the composer Frédéric Chopin

Seven dog-loving quotes from famous authors

which was dispersed during the seventeenth century

using a camera borrowed from a friend

Since this Manhattan neighborhood was named for the Murray family and their contributions to the American Revolution