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wwu:24107
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Milne - The complete tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
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1947-06-12
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Two page letter from A. A. Milne to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery. Winnie the Pooh was published in 1926 by Dutton. This simple letter about the origins of Winnie the Pooh is postmarked from Crotchford Farm, Sussex, the setting of the Pooh stories.
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info:fedora/wwu:24050
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Text
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Special Collections
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20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
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20thCCA_milne
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20th Century Children's Authors - Milne ---------- 20th Century Children's Authors - A. A. Milne - The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh ---------- ---------- 20thCCA_Milne_01 ---------- Dear Miss Montgomery, The chronology of the autobiography is, of course, more accurate than that of any
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20th Century Children's Authors - Milne ---------- 20th Century Children's Authors - A. A. Milne - The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh ---------- ---------- 20thCCA_Milne_01 ---------- Dea
Show more20th Century Children's Authors - Milne ---------- 20th Century Children's Authors - A. A. Milne - The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh ---------- ---------- 20thCCA_Milne_01 ---------- Dear Miss Montgomery, The chronology of the autobiography is, of course, more accurate than that of any magazine story you may have read, and the ottoman incident happened after the publication of Pooh. The truth (if this even interests anybody) of the genesis of the stories is as follows: Owing I suppose to the success of When We Were Very Young, I was asked by an editor for a children's story. I wasn't keen to write one, but my wife suggested that I could use one of the stories I had told our child at bed-time. She had never heard these, or she wouldn't have suggested it. A bed time story for a child is merely an excuse for postponing sleep and these were just a progression from one conventional dragon or what-not to another, with intermittent warnings that the next one would have to ---------- 20thCCA_Milne_02 ---------- be the last. However, I did remember that among these flounders and absurd postponements of the final "Good-nights" Pooh and a balloon had once made a fairly rational appearance. So I turned this into the asked for story...and, when more were sought for other editions, kept Pooh, introduced the remaining animals, abandoned balloons, and became strictly realistic. Yours sincerely, A.A. Milne
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Identifier
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wwu:24103
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Knight - Lassie Come Home
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Date
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1947-11-19/1948-02-26, 1947-11-19-1948-02-26
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Four page questionnaire completed by Jere Knight; one letter to Jere knight from Elizabeth Rider Mongomery; one letter to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery from Elizabeth Morton. Lassie Come Home was published by John C. Winston Co. in 1940.
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info:fedora/wwu:24050
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Text
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Special Collections
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20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
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20thCCA_knight
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book?: He originally did a set of illustrations of his own in black and white, as well as a color jacket for book, but Winston decided on Kirmse. If he did them himself, which came first, the pictures or the text? He was in touch with Kirmse when she was doing the illustrations, and answered all qu
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book?: He originally did a set of illustrations of his own in black and white, as well as a color jacket for book, but Winston decided on Kirmse. If he did them himself, which came first, the picture
Show more book?: He originally did a set of illustrations of his own in black and white, as well as a color jacket for book, but Winston decided on Kirmse. If he did them himself, which came first, the pictures or the text? He was in touch with Kirmse when she was doing the illustrations, and answered all questions she had put to him on type of dog, etc. ---------- 20thCCA_Knight_04 ---------- D. WHAT SORT
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