ILLUSTRATED correspondence by Beatrix Potter, originally sent to Mr Willie Wilson of Armathwaite just months before she died, was sold to a private collector for £6,800 at Mitchells Antiques & Fine Art auction in Cockermouth.
And an oil on panel artwork entitled Ouse Bridge by Mathias Read sold for £10,000 to the WW Spooner Charitable Trust and will be presented to the Wordsworth Trust based in Grasmere.
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