THE famous children’s book characters created by Lakeland author Beatrix Potter also featured in sheet music for young piano players in the 1930s.

Documents relating to the collaboration between composed Christopher Le Fleming and Potter from 1935 are set to sell for £3,000 to £4,000 at auction.

The papers are included in the sale on Wednesday, July 13, by Spink and Son of London.

The Lakeland author was 69 when she worked on illustrations for the first book of six piano pieces called The Peter Rabbit Music Books.

The Saturday, July 9, sale by International Autograph Auctions, of Nottingham, has the signature of Lakeland poet laureate William Wordsworth which has been cut from a larger letter.

It is dated 1837 and is expected to sell for £110 to £120.

Wordsworth, whose Lakeland homes included Dove Cottage at Grasmere, lived from 1770 to 1850.

The same sale has a large 14in by 11in photograph signed to “Doris” by Ulverston-born comic actor Stan Laurel, who lived from 1890 to 1965, and is screen partner Oliver Hardy, 1892 to 1957.

It should sell for £600 to £800.

There is also a letter by artist, critic and social visionary John Ruskin which should sell for £100 to £150.

Ruskin, who lived from 1819 to 1900 was based for his later years at Brantwood, overlooking Coniston.

The letter was sent to Susie Beever, a good Coniston friend of Ruskin’s in the 1870s and 1880s.

The Saturday and Sunday, July 9 to 10, sale of militaria by Lockdales, of Ipswich, includes cap badge to the 4th Cumberland and Westmorland Battalion of the Border Regiment.

It should sell for £20 to £25.

The same sale has a Victory Medal of the First World War won by Pte W. C. Long, of Grasmere.

Pte Long, No. 126937, served with the Machine Gun Corps and was killed on May 20 in 1918.

He is buried at Annois Communal Cemetery.

The Thursday, July 14, sale by Mallins of Oxford has a painting called Under Coniston Old Man which shows the old miner’s bridge on the way to Coppermines Valley.

It has been attributed to the artist David Cox Junior who lived from 1809 to 1885 and should sell for £50 to £100.

A sale on July 17 by Thomson Roddick Scottish Auctions, at Dumfries, expects at least £10 for a signed etching of Ravenglass by Beatrix Blake.

Two pieces of Barrow soccer club memorabilia feature in the Friday, July 15, sale by Sportingold, at Saunderton, Buckinghamshire.

There is a damaged but very rare postcard-sized matchcard for the game played between Oldham Athletic and Barrow on September 22 in 1906.

It was given away by Hugh Cooper, a hatter of Curzon Street, Oldham but is now estimated to sell for £110 to £120.

The same sale has a programme for the FA Cup Second Round second replay played at Old Trafford, Manchester, between Barrow and Grimsby Town on November 23 in 1964. It should sell for £30 to £35.