Joan Penelope Cope – SIGNED LETTER 1949
£195.00
A near fine letter from Joan Penelope Cope addressed to ‘Penelope Ann’, from Eversley Manor, Eversley, Hampshire, dated 23rd February 1949, written in black ink on ivory writing paper with central horizontal and vertical folds, some light surface damage from two pieces of removed adhesive tape to the fold of the front sheet, within the text an ink and water-colour illustration by the author of a winged fairy in a blossom branch.
In full: ‘Dear Penelope Ann, I was delighted to get your nice letter this morning. How very sweet of you to think of writing to me! I am very glad you like my book. I wrote another at the same time called “Bygone Flowers.” It was published in 1940. I am afraid I have not very much to tell you. During the last part of the war I was a Red Cross nurse for two years. I still hope to be a real writer and a well known painter some day! But once you are grown up it is more difficult to have books published and very few people want to buy drawings or paintings, and these days there are few illustrations in books because paper is so rationed. So you see it is very difficult to get started! I have been teaching art in the village school for a year. You see I have drawn you a fairy over there in case she might amuse you. At Christmas time I became engaged to a Scottish young man and I am going to be married some time this year. Thank you for writing. With love from Joan Penelope Cope.’
Joan Penelope Cope (1926-1991) was the author of Bramshill: Being the Memoirs of Joan Penelope Cope, written when she was twelve-years old and illustrated with pictures by the author of her childhood home; it is possibly the book clearly admired by the recipient of this letter. In it Cope vividly describes her life at Bramshill, the Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in Hampshire, first purchased by the banker Sir John Cope in 1699 and held by his descendants until 1935. She was the daughter of Sir Denzil Cope 14th Bt and married the ‘Scottish young man’ mentioned in this letter, Sir Duncan Alexander Grant of Dalvey, 13th Baronet, on 3 August 1949.
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A near fine letter from Joan Penelope Cope addressed to ‘Penelope Ann’, from Eversley Manor, Eversley, Hampshire, dated 23rd February 1949, written in black ink on ivory writing paper with central horizontal and vertical folds, some light surface damage from two pieces of removed adhesive tape to the fold of the front sheet, within the text an ink and water-colour illustration by the author of a winged fairy in a blossom branch.
In full: ‘Dear Penelope Ann, I was delighted to get your nice letter this morning. How very sweet of you to think of writing to me! I am very glad you like my book. I wrote another at the same time called “Bygone Flowers.” It was published in 1940. I am afraid I have not very much to tell you. During the last part of the war I was a Red Cross nurse for two years. I still hope to be a real writer and a well known painter some day! But once you are grown up it is more difficult to have books published and very few people want to buy drawings or paintings, and these days there are few illustrations in books because paper is so rationed. So you see it is very difficult to get started! I have been teaching art in the village school for a year. You see I have drawn you a fairy over there in case she might amuse you. At Christmas time I became engaged to a Scottish young man and I am going to be married some time this year. Thank you for writing. With love from Joan Penelope Cope.’
Joan Penelope Cope (1926-1991) was the author of Bramshill: Being the Memoirs of Joan Penelope Cope, written when she was twelve-years old and illustrated with pictures by the author of her childhood home; it is possibly the book clearly admired by the recipient of this letter. In it Cope vividly describes her life at Bramshill, the Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in Hampshire, first purchased by the banker Sir John Cope in 1699 and held by his descendants until 1935. She was the daughter of Sir Denzil Cope 14th Bt and married the ‘Scottish young man’ mentioned in this letter, Sir Duncan Alexander Grant of Dalvey, 13th Baronet, on 3 August 1949.
