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When the little prince was born, in 1865, his grandmama Victoria wanted his first name to be Frederick, but she gave in to his parents' preference for George Frederick Ernest Albert. "If the dear child grows up good and wise," wrote Queen Victoria, "I shall not mind what his name...
Topsy, a Pig, & Grandmama. Father Rupert Potter, a barrister, was as awe-inspiring as Jehovah (see cut). In London's respectable Earl's Court, he and Mrs. Potter ate breakfast, alone, in absolute silence. Then Mr. Potter went to his club. At 1 o'clock, a small cutlet and some rice pudding went up to the nursery by the back stairs. Then a Calvinist nurse named McKenzie came and took little Beatrix for a good walk...
...sometimes Grandmama came to visit. She was regal and beautiful. She told little Beatrix wonderful stories of her youth-about the adorer who had first written her a beautiful poem, beginning "Sweet harp of Lune Villa!" and then drowned himself in the lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny...
...volumes are the most important and inclusive work ever published on Thackeray,'and a first-rate editing job. Three-fifths of the letters have never before been published. They range from Thackeray, aged 6 ("My dear Mama I hope you are quite well: I have given my dear Grandmama a kiss"), to Novelist Thackeray, 40, famed and love-sick ("My dearest Mammy ... the griefs of my elderly heart can't be talked about. . . . What can any body do for me?"). Editor Ray has also included enlightening extracts from Thackeray's private diaries and account-books, scores...
...Said Grandmama Ebert: "It's a nice piece of work, but it ought to be draped and it's going to be draped. I've brought Henrietta up right...