Kathleen Hale. Orlando (The Marmalade Cat). A Seaside Holiday. First Edition 1952. With letter from Hale dated April 1995. (signed) referring to writing A Seaside Holiday. '"Orlando's Sea-side Holiday" was written in blissful memory of mine, every summer when I was a child. Not excluding the experience of cutting edge of the grass growing on the sand-dunes - nor the sand in picnic-sandwiches & banana skings.- Those magical rock-pools with white sand, fringed with silky green weed from which darted almost trans-parent shrimps & (if lucky) a tiny crab, were joys I can still feel. Those pools were whole worlds in themselves & the large ones held a hint of delicious apprehension.', in blue ink on Basildon Bond watermarked paper, 22.6 x 17.7 cm, . Delightful and rare provenance with the Hale letter showing the inspiration for the book.