Editing A. A. Milne

{{Short description|English writer (1882–1956)}}
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| caption          = Milne in 1922
| birth_name       = Alan Alexander Milne
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1882|1|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Kilburn, London|Kilburn]], [[London]], England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1956|1|31|1882|1|18|df=yes}}
| death_place      = [[Hartfield]], [[Sussex]], England
| occupation       = {{hlist||Novelist|playwright|poet}}
| years_active     = 1906–1956
| period           = [[Interwar Britain]]
| education        = [[Westminster School]]
| alma_mater       = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| spouse           = {{marriage|{{nowrap|Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt}}|1913}}
| children         = [[Christopher Robin Milne|Christopher Robin]]
| relatives        = [[Aubrey de Sélincourt]] (brother-in-law)
| genre            = Children's literature
| notableworks     = ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh]]''
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| name             = A. A. Milne
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'''Alan Alexander Milne''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ɪ|l|n}}; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the [[teddy bear]] [[Winnie-the-Pooh]], as well as children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work. He served as a lieutenant in the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]] in the [[First World War]] and as a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]] in the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-A-Milne|title=A.A. Milne {{!}} British author|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=5 September 2018|language=en}}</ref>

Milne was the father of bookseller [[Christopher Robin Milne]], upon whom the character [[Christopher Robin]] is based. It was during a visit to [[London Zoo]], where Christopher became enamoured with the tame and amiable bear [[Winnipeg (bear)|Winnipeg]], that Milne was inspired to write the story of Winnie-the-Pooh for his son.<ref name="Amiable bear">{{cite news |title=The bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh |url=https://www.zsl.org/videos/fun-animal-facts/the-bear-who-inspired-winnie-the-pooh |access-date=12 June 2022 |publisher=Zoological Society of London}}</ref> Milne bequeathed the original manuscripts of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories to the [[Wren Library]] at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], his alma mater.<ref>{{cite news |title=A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh goes to London |url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/winnie-the-pooh-goes-to-london/ |access-date=27 April 2023 |publisher=Trinity College Cambridge |date=2017}}</ref>

==Early life and military career==
[[File:A. A. Milne plaque.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Plaque commemorating Milne's birthplace in [[Kilburn, London]] ]]
Alan Alexander Milne was born in [[Kilburn, London]],<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35031?docPos=2|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35031}}</ref> to John Vine Milne, who was born in [[Colony of Jamaica|Jamaica]],<ref>Thwaite, Ann. A.A. Milne: His Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. ISBN 0571138888 p. 8</ref> and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham), on 18 January 1882. He grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small [[independent school]] run by his father.<ref name="ODNBthwaite" /> He taught himself to read at the age of two. One of his teachers was [[H. G. Wells]], who taught there in 1889–90.<ref>{{cite journal |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22657 | year = 1989 | title = Hampstead: Education | journal=A History of the County of Middlesex | volume = 9 | pages = 159–169 | access-date = 9 June 2008 }}</ref> Milne attended [[Westminster School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref>{{acad|id=MLN900AA|name=Milne, Alan Alexander}}</ref> where he studied on a mathematics scholarship, graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in Mathematics in 1903, though he was always interested in writing. He edited and wrote for ''[[Granta]]'', a student magazine.<ref name="ODNBthwaite">{{cite ODNB|last=Thwaite|first=Ann|title=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|location=Oxford, England|date=January 2008|chapter=Milne, Alan Alexander (1882–1956)|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35031 }}</ref> He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. Considered a talented [[cricket]] fielder, Milne played for two amateur teams that were largely composed of British writers: the [[Allahakbarries]] and the [[Authors Cricket Club|Authors XI]]. His teammates included fellow writers [[J. M. Barrie]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] and [[P. G. Wodehouse]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8662375.stm "What is the connection between Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes, Winnie the Pooh and the noble sport of cricket?]. BBC. Retrieved 25 November 2014</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Parkinson |first=Justin |date=26 July 2014 |title=Authors and actors revive cricket rivalry |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27903864 |work= BBC News Magazine|access-date=21 March 2019}}</ref>

Milne joined the [[British Army]] during [[World War I]] and served as an officer in the [[Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers|Royal Warwickshire Regiment]]. He was commissioned into the 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, on 1 February 1915 as a [[second lieutenant]] (on probation).<ref name="LG 16 February 1915">{{London Gazette |issue=29070 |date=16 February 1915 |page=1563 }}</ref> His commission was confirmed on 20 December 1915.<ref>London Gazette. issue 29408 17 December 1915. Retrieved 26 February 2015</ref> He served on [[Battle of the Somme|the Somme]] as a signals officer from July–November 1916, but caught [[trench fever]] and was invalided back to England. Having recuperated, he worked as a signals instructor, before being recruited into military intelligence to write propaganda articles for [[MI7|MI7 (b)]] between 1917 and 1918.<ref>Thwaite, Ann. A.A. Milne: His Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. ISBN 0571138888 pp. 172–185</ref> He was discharged on 14 February 1919,<ref>{{cite book| last = Finch| first = Christopher| title = Disney's Winnie the Pooh: A Celebration of the Silly Old Bear| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aJt8beaKgb8C&pg=PA18| year = 2000| publisher = Disney Editions| isbn = 978-0-7868-6352-5| page = 18 }}</ref> and settled in [[Mallord Street]], [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]].<ref>{{cite news |title=For sale: Winnie-the-Pooh creator A&nbsp;A Milne's home |date=27 March 2013 |author= Davidson, Max |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/9957606/For-sale-Winnie-the-Pooh-creator-A-A-Milnes-home.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130328070614/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/9957606/For-sale-Winnie-the-Pooh-creator-A-A-Milnes-home.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 28 March 2013 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location= London}}</ref> He relinquished his commission on 19 February 1920, retaining the rank of lieutenant.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31786 |supp=y|page=2036|date=17 February 1920}}</ref>

[[File:Harrods of Knightsbridge, London, SW1 - geograph.org.uk - 3262290.jpg|thumb|upright|In 1921, Milne bought the 18-inch Alpha Farnell teddy bear for his son (who would name it Edward, then Winnie) from [[Harrods]] department store ''(pictured)'' in London.<ref>{{cite news |title='Winnie the Pooh' has an enchanting heritage |url=https://www.licensingsource.net/indepth/winnie-the-pooh-has-an-enchanting-heritage/ |access-date=16 June 2022 |work=Licensing source}}</ref>]]
After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled ''Peace with Honour'' (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's ''War with Honour''.<ref name="ODNBthwaite" /><ref>Capitalization as in the [[British Library]] Catalogue</ref> During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of fellow English writer (and Authors XI cricket teammate) P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the [[Nazism|Nazis]] and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend (e.g. in ''[[The Mating Season (novel)|The Mating Season]]'') by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theparisreview.com/media/3773_WODEHOUSE.pdf |title=The Art of Fiction – P.G. Wodehouse |access-date=22 May 2008 |year=2005 |work=The Paris Review |page=18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529040738/http://www.theparisreview.com/media/3773_WODEHOUSE.pdf |archive-date=29 May 2008 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

Milne married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt (1890–1971) in 1913 and their son [[Christopher Robin Milne]] was born in 1920. In 1925, Milne bought a country home, [[Cotchford Farm]], in [[Hartfield]], [[East Sussex]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=618520#|title=Cotchford Farm|work=National Monument Records|publisher=[[English Heritage]]|access-date=29 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012054412/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=618520|archive-date=12 October 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

During World War II, Milne was a captain in the [[British Home Guard]] in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain "Mr. Milne" to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid; and by August 1953, "he seemed very old and disenchanted."<ref>{{cite web | title=Letter La Z 5 July 1917 – John Middleton Murry to Beatrice Elvery |date=12 August 1953 |url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lss/services/mss/collections/online-mss-catalogues/cats/laz4-5cat.html#laz57 |publisher=George Lazarus Collection |access-date=9 June 2008 }}</ref> Milne died in January 1956, aged 74.<ref>Jill C. Wheeler (2010). "A. A. Milne." p. 21. ABDO Publishing Company,</ref>

== Literary career ==
===1903 to 1925===
[[File:A a milne.jpg|thumb|upright|Milne in 1922]]
After graduating from Cambridge University in 1903, A. A. Milne contributed humorous verse and whimsical essays to ''Punch'',<ref>{{cite journal | last = Milne | first = A. A. |date=August 1904 | title = Lillian's Loves | journal=[[Punch (magazine)|Punch, or the London Charivari]] | volume = 127 | issue = 24 August 1904 | page = 142 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Milne | first = A. A. |date=November 1904 | title = Answers to [Fictional] Correspondents | journal=Punch, or the London Charivari | volume = 127 | issue =9 November 1904 | page = 333 }}</ref> joining the staff in 1906 and becoming an assistant editor.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url= https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052746/AA-Milne |title=A. A. Milne |access-date=22 May 2008 |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080510114043/https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052746/AA-Milne| archive-date= 10 May 2008 | url-status=live}}</ref>

During this period he published 18 plays and three novels, including the murder mystery ''[[The Red House Mystery]]'' (1922). His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems, ''[[When We Were Very Young]]'', which were illustrated by ''Punch'' staff cartoonist [[E. H. Shepard]]. A collection of short stories for children ''[[A Gallery of Children]]'', and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films (founded in 1920 by the actor [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]] and his friend and story editor [[Adrian Brunel]]). These were ''The Bump'', starring [[C. Aubrey Smith|Aubrey Smith]]; ''Twice Two''; ''Five Pound Reward''; and ''Bookworms''.<ref>{{cite book| last = Eforgan| first = E.| title = Leslie Howard: The Lost Actor| year = 2010| publisher = Vallentine Mitchell| isbn = 978-0-85303-971-6 }}</ref> Some of these films survive in the archives of the [[British Film Institute]]. Milne had met Howard when the actor starred in Milne's play ''Mr Pim Passes By'' in London.<ref>{{cite book| author = Thomas Burnett Swann| title = A. A. Milne| url = https://archive.org/details/aamilnesawn00swan| url-access = registration| year = 1971| publisher = Twayne Publishers| page = [https://archive.org/details/aamilnesawn00swan/page/41 41] | isbn = 978-0805713961}}</ref>

Looking back on this period (in 1926), Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a "''Punch'' humorist" was a humorous story; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story; and after another two years, he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books. He concluded that "the only excuse which I have yet discovered for writing anything is that I want to write it; and I should be as proud to be delivered of a Telephone Directory ''con amore'' as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others."<ref name="RedHouseMystery_Intro">{{cite book |last=Milne |first=Alan Alexander |title=[[The Red House Mystery]] |orig-year=1922 |year=1926 |publisher=[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] |location=London |pages=ix–xii |chapter=Introduction (dated April 1926)}}</ref>

===1926 to 1928===
[[File:A. A. Milne with his son Christopher Robin Milne and Pooh Bear - Howard Coster - NPG P715.jpg|thumb|left|Milne with his son Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear, at Cotchford Farm, their home in Sussex. Photo by [[Howard Coster]], 1926.]]
Milne is most famous for his two ''Pooh'' books about a boy named [[Christopher Robin]] after his son, [[Christopher Robin Milne]] (1920–1996), and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named [[Winnie-the-Pooh]].<ref name="vam.ac.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/winnie-the-pooh-exploring-a-classic|title=V&A · Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic|website=Victoria and Albert Museum|language=en|access-date=5 September 2018}}</ref> Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named Edward,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nypl.org/locations/tid/36/node/5557|title=The Adventures of the REAL Winnie-the-Pooh|website=The New York Public Library|access-date=17 January 2010|archive-date=15 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715114356/http://nypl.org/locations/tid/36/node/5557|url-status=dead}}</ref> was renamed Winnie after a Canadian [[American Black Bear|black bear]] named [[Winnipeg (bear)|Winnie]] (after [[Winnipeg]]), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to [[London Zoo]] during the war. "The Pooh" comes from a [[swan]] the young Milne named "Pooh". [[E. H. Shepard]] illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy Growler ("a magnificent bear") as the model. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys, [[Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh)|Piglet]], [[Eeyore]], Kanga, Roo and [[Tigger]], were incorporated into A. A. Milne's stories,<ref name="Express"/><ref name = "birthday"/> and two more characters&nbsp;– Rabbit and Owl&nbsp;– were created by Milne's imagination. Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now on display in New York where 750,000 people visit them every year.
The fictional [[Hundred Acre Wood]] of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in [[Ashdown Forest]] in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. Milne lived on the northern edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm, {{Coord| 51.090| 0.107|display=inline}}, and took his son on walking trips there. E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books. The adult Christopher Robin commented: "Pooh's Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical."<ref name="Express"/> Popular tourist locations at Ashdown Forest include: ''Galleon's Lap'', ''The Enchanted Place'', the ''[[Heffalump trap|Heffalump Trap]]'' and ''Lone Pine'', ''Eeyore's Sad and Gloomy Place'', and the wooden ''Pooh Bridge'' where Pooh and Piglet invented [[Poohsticks]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-11380115 Plans to improve access to Pooh Bridge unveiled]. BBC. Retrieved 15 October 2011</ref>

Not yet known as Pooh, he made his first appearance in a poem, "Teddy Bear", published in ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine in February 1924 and republished that year in ''[[When We Were Very Young]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Celebrate Winnie-The-Pooh's 90th with a Rare Recording (And Hunny)|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/02/22/280761847/celebrating-winnie-the-poohs-90th-with-a-rare-recording-and-some-hunny|publisher=NPR|date=20 July 2015}}</ref> Pooh first appeared in the ''[[London Evening News]]'' on Christmas Eve, 1925, in a story called "The Wrong Sort of Bees".<ref name = "birthday">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4552940.stm "Pooh celebrates his 80th birthday"]. BBC. Retrieved 11 November 2012</ref> ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' was published in 1926, followed by ''[[The House at Pooh Corner]]'' in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, ''[[Now We Are Six]]'', was published in 1927. All four books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also "gallantly stepped forward" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P. G. Wodehouse's ''A Damsel in Distress''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9L2kjKQ8CvYC&pg=PA114|title=P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master|author=David A Jasen|publisher=Music Sales Group|year=2002|isbn=978-0-85712-754-9|location=London|page=114}}</ref> ''The World of Pooh'' won the [[Lewis Carroll Shelf Award]] in 1958.<ref>Award List. "Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Winners," Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Collection, Living Arts Corporation, Loveland, Colorado.</ref>

===1929 onward===
The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war ''Punch'' from its ponderous facetiousness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol [[J. M. Barrie]]) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in ''[[The Red House Mystery]]'' (although this was severely criticised by [[Raymond Chandler]] for the implausibility of its plot in his essay ''[[The Simple Art of Murder]]'' in the eponymous collection that appeared in 1950). But once Milne had, in his own words, "said goodbye to all that in 70,000 words" (the approximate length of his four principal children's books), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.<ref name="BBC Pooh">{{cite news |title=AA Milne and the curse of Pooh bear |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160128-a-a-milne-and-the-curse-of-pooh-bear |access-date=3 May 2023 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

Another reason Milne stopped writing children's books, and especially about Winnie-the-Pooh, was that he felt "amazement and disgust" over the immense fame his son was exposed to, and said that "I feel that the legal Christopher Robin has already had more publicity than I want for him. I do not want CR Milne to ever wish that his name were Charles Robert."<ref name="BBC Pooh"/>

In his literary home, ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', where the ''When We Were Very Young'' verses had first appeared, Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem "The Norman Church" and an assembly of articles entitled ''Year In, Year Out'' (which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author).<ref>Alan Hedblad (1998). "Something about the Author, Volume 100." p. 177. Gale,</ref>

In 1929, Milne adapted [[Kenneth Grahame]]'s novel ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' for the stage as ''[[Toad of Toad Hall]]''.<ref>Jill C. Wheeler (2010). "A. A. Milne." p. 19. ABDO Publishing Company,</ref> The title was an implicit admission that such chapters as Chapter 7, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," could not survive translation to the theatre. A special introduction written by Milne is included in some editions of Grahame's novel.<ref>"Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1940–1943, Part 1." p. 449. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1940</ref> It was first performed at the [[Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool]], on 21 December 1929 before it made its [[West End theatre|West End]] debut the following year at the [[Lyric Theatre, London|Lyric Theatre]] on 17 December 1930.<ref>"Provincial Productions", ''The Stage'', 26 December 1929, p. 18; "Toad of Toad Hall", ''The Era'', 24 December 1920, p. 1; and Milne (1932), p. iii</ref> The play was revived in the West End from 1931 to 1935, and since the 1960s there have been West End revivals during the Christmas season; actors who have performed in the play include [[Judi Dench]] and [[Ian McKellen]].<ref>Herbert, pp. 521, 545, 1199 and 27; and [https://www.mckellen.com/stage/00119.htm "Toad of Toad Hall"], Ian McKellen. Retrieved 10 February 2024</ref>

Milne and his wife became estranged from their son, who came to resent what he saw as his father's exploitation of his childhood and came to hate the books that had thrust him into the public eye.<ref name="autobio2">{{cite book|title=The Enchanted Places|url=https://archive.org/details/enchantedplaces00miln|url-access=registration|last=Milne|first=Christopher|publisher=Eyre Methuen|year=1974|isbn=978-0-14-003449-3|location=London}}</ref> Christopher's marriage to his first cousin, Lesley de Sélincourt, distanced him still further from his parents – Lesley's father and Christopher's mother had not spoken to each other for 30 years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/i-knew-christopher-robin--the-real-christopher-robin/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/i-knew-christopher-robin--the-real-christopher-robin/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The real Christopher Robin|last=Brandreth|first=Giles|work=The Telegraph|access-date=20 July 2017|language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/23/how-aa-milne-and-christopher-robin-fell-under-the-curse-of-pooh-bear|title=AA Milne, Christopher Robin and the curse of Winnie-the-Pooh|last=Boyce|first=Frank Cottrell|date=23 September 2017|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=5 September 2018}}</ref>

==Death and legacy==
=== Commemoration ===
{{Quote box|width=30%|align=left|quote=I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.|source=—A. A. Milne.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2014-jan-13-la-et-jc-happy-birthday-aa-milne-20140113-story.html "Happy birthday, A.A. Milne!"]. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 November 2014</ref>}}

A. A. Milne died at his home in [[Hartfield]], [[Sussex]], on 31 January 1956, 13 days after his 74th birthday. A memorial service took place on 10 February at [[All Hallows-by-the-Tower]] church in London.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thwaite |first1=Ann |title=A. A. Milne His Life |date=2014 |publisher=Pan Macmillan}}</ref>

The rights to A. A. Milne's Pooh books were left to four beneficiaries: his family, the [[Royal Literary Fund]], [[Westminster School]] and the [[Garrick Club]].<ref>{{cite news| title= A bit of a stink at the Garrick over Winnie the Pooh's pot of money| first= Ann |last= Treneman |newspaper= The Independent |date=4 August 1998 |location= London |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-bit-of-a-stink-at-the-garrick-over-winnie-the-poohs-pot-of-money-1169463.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622123704/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-bit-of-a-stink-at-the-garrick-over-winnie-the-poohs-pot-of-money-1169463.html |archive-date=2013-06-22 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=14 January 2012}}</ref> After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to [[Stephen Slesinger]], whose widow sold the rights after Slesinger's death to [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions]], which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a [[Disney Channel]] television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise. In 2001, the other beneficiaries sold their interest in the estate to the Disney Corporation for $350m. Previously Disney had been paying twice-yearly royalties to these beneficiaries. The estate of [[E. H. Shepard]] also received a sum in the deal. The UK copyright on the text of the original Winnie the Pooh books expires on 1 January 2027;<ref>{{cite news |title= Walt Disney secures rights to Winnie the Pooh |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=6 March 2001 |location= London |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/mar/06/news |access-date=14 January 2012}}</ref> at the beginning of the year after the 70th anniversary of the author's death ([[List of Latin phrases (P)#Post mortem auctoris|PMA]]-70), and has already expired in those countries with a PMA-50 rule. This applies to all of Milne's works except those first published posthumously. The illustrations in the Pooh books will remain under copyright until the same amount of time after the illustrator's death has passed; in the UK, this will be 1 January 2047.

In the US, copyright on the four children's books (including the illustrations) expired 95 years after publication of each of the books. Specifically: copyright on the book ''When We Were Very Young'' expired in 2020;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/ |title=January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1924 are open to all! |last=Jenkins |first=Jennifer |website=Center for the Study of the Public Domain |language=en |access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref> copyright on the book ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' expired in 2022;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2022/ |title=January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day: Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923! |last=Jenkins |first=Jennifer |website=Center for the Study of the Public Domain |language=en |access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref> copyright on the book ''Now We Are Six'' expired in 2023;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/ |title=January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! |last=Jenkins |first=Jennifer |website=Center for the Study of the Public Domain |language=en |access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref> and copyright on the book ''The House at Pooh Corner'' expired in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/ |title=January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923! |last=Jenkins |first=Jennifer |website=Center for the Study of the Public Domain |language=en |access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref>

In 2008, a collection of original illustrations featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and his animal friends sold for more than £1.2 million at auction at [[Sotheby's]], London.<ref>[http://www.metro.co.uk/news/451357-pooh-pictures-sell-for-1-2m-at-auction "Pooh pictures sell for £1.2m at auction"]. ''Metro'' (London). 18 December 2008. Retrieved 11 November 2012</ref> ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine ranked Winnie the Pooh the most valuable fictional character in 2002; Winnie the Pooh merchandising products alone had annual sales of more than $5.9 billion.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/2003/09/25/cx_al_fictionalslide.html?thisSpeed=30000 "Top-Earning Fictional Characters"]. ''Forbes'' (New York). 25 September 2003. Retrieved 11 November 2012.</ref> In 2005, Winnie the Pooh generated $6 billion, a figure surpassed only by [[Mickey Mouse]].<ref name="BBC 2006"/>

[[File:Gills Lap Plaque.JPG|thumb|right|A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard memorial plaque at [[Ashdown Forest]], East Sussex, south east England. It overlooks Five Hundred Acre Wood, the setting for Winnie-the-Pooh.]]
[[File:Winnie the Pooh sculpture at London Zoo.jpg|thumb|This sculpture at [[London Zoo]] marks where Milne took his son Christopher Robin to see the amiable bear that inspired Milne to write the story.]]
A memorial plaque in [[Ashdown Forest]], unveiled by Christopher Robin in 1979, commemorates the work of A. A. Milne and Shepard in creating the world of Pooh.<ref name="Express"/> The inscription states they "captured the magic of Ashdown Forest, and gave it to the world". Milne once wrote of Ashdown Forest: "In that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing."<ref name="Express">Ford, Rebecca (28 February 2007) [http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/442 "Happy Birthday Pooh"], ''Daily Express''. Retrieved 15 October 2011</ref>

In 2003, ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' was ranked number 7 on the [[BBC]]'s [[The Big Read]] poll which determined the UK's "best-loved novels".<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml "The Big Read"], BBC, April 2003. Retrieved 18 October 2012.</ref> In 2006, Winnie-the-Pooh received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], marking the 80th birthday of Milne's creation.<ref name="BBC 2006">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4902018.stm "Pooh joins Hollywood Walk of Fame"]. BBC. Retrieved 24 November 2014</ref>

Marking the 90th anniversary of Milne's creation of the character, and the 90th birthday of [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]], ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen]]'' (2016) sees Pooh meet the Queen at [[Buckingham Palace]]. The illustrated and audio adventure is narrated by the actor [[Jim Broadbent]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Winnie the Pooh meets the Queen in a new story|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36392103|agency=BBC News|date=19 September 2016}}</ref> Also in 2016, a new character, a Penguin, was unveiled in ''[[The Best Bear in All the World]]'', which was inspired by a long-lost photograph of Milne and his son Christopher with a toy penguin.<ref>{{cite news|title=Listen to the moment Winnie-the-Pooh meets penguin friend in new book|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37401359|agency=BBC News|date=19 September 2016}}</ref>

An exhibition entitled ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic]]'' appeared at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in London from 9 December 2017 to 8 April 2018.<ref name="vam.ac.uk"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/03/winnie-the-pooh-heads-to-va-for-big-winter-exhibition|title=Winnie-the-Pooh heads to V&A for big winter exhibition|last=Kennedy|first=Maev|date=3 September 2017|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=5 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/04/winnie-the-pooh-v-and-a-museum-london-bear-exhibition|title=Winnie-the-Pooh heads to the V&A in London for bear-all exhibition|last=Kennedy|first=Maev|date=4 December 2017|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=5 September 2018}}</ref>

The composer [[Harold Fraser-Simson]], a near neighbour, produced six books of Milne songs between 1924 and 1932.<ref>[https://www.musicwebinternational.com/2023/11/fraser-simson-complete-settings-of-songs-by-a-a-milne-em-records/ 'Enchanted Places – Complete Settings of Songs by A.A. Milne'], reviewed at ''MusicWeb International'', 7 November 2023</ref> The poems have been parodied many times, including in the books [[Fairfax Downey|''When We Were Rather Older'']] and [[Christopher Matthew|''Now We Are Sixty'']]. The 1963 film ''[[The King's Breakfast (film)|The King's Breakfast]]'' was based on Milne's poem [[The King's Breakfast (poem)|of the same name]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160415121522/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ae20430 "The King's Breakfast (1963)"]. BFI. Retrieved 4 January 2020</ref>

Milne has been portrayed in television and film. [[Domhnall Gleeson]] plays him in ''[[Goodbye Christopher Robin]]'', a 2017 biographical drama film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/04/star-wars-domhnall-gleeson-winnie-the-pooh-aa-milne-goodbye-christopher-robin-1201736826/|title='Star Wars' Domhnall Gleeson in Talks To Play Winnie The Pooh Creator AA Milne In 'Goodbye Christopher Robin'|last=Jaafar|first=Ali|date=13 April 2016|website=Deadline|access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref> In the 2018 fantasy film ''[[Christopher Robin (film)|Christopher Robin]]'', an extension of the [[Winnie the Pooh (franchise)|Disney Winnie the Pooh franchise]], [[Tristan Sturrock]] plays Milne, and filming took place at Ashdown Forest.<ref>{{cite news|first=Nia |last=Daniels|title=Disney's Christopher Robin starts filming in the UK|url=http://www.kftv.com/news/2017/08/09/disneys-christopher-robin-starts-filming-in-the-uk-|access-date=12 June 2022|work=[[Kemps Film and TV Production Services Handbook|KFTV]]|publisher=Media Business Insight|date=9 August 2017}}</ref>

An elementary school in [[Houston, Texas]], operated by the [[Houston Independent School District]] (HISD), is named after Milne.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.houstonisd.org/Page/58679|title=About A. A. Milne|publisher=A. A. Milne Elementary School|access-date=28 October 2019}}</ref> The school, [[List of Houston Independent School District elementary schools|A. A. Milne Elementary School]] in [[Brays Oaks]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.braysoaksmd.org/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=outofthebox-preview&OutoftheBoxpath=%2Fbo_publicschool_ltr_sep24_2018.pdf&lastpath=%2F&listtoken=d76d9bb055416aa41ef1d642d908f29a|title=BO_PublicSchool_Ltr_Sep24_2018.pdf|work=[[Brays Oaks|Brays Oaks Management District]]|access-date=28 October 2019}}</ref> opened in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.houstonisd.org/Page/32481|title=Elementary Schools (K-Z)|publisher=[[Houston Independent School District]]|access-date=28 October 2019}}</ref>

== Archive ==
[[file:WrenCambridge.JPG|thumb|right|Milne bequeathed his Winnie-the-Pooh manuscripts to the [[Wren Library]] ''(pictured)'' at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]]]

The original manuscripts for ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' and ''The House at Pooh Corner'' are archived at [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College Library]], [[Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=CV/Pers/Milne,%20Alan%20Alexander%20(1882-1956)%20poet%20and%20playwright|title=Janus: Milne, Alan Alexander (1882–1956) poet and playwright|website=janus.lib.cam.ac.uk|access-date=6 November 2017|archive-date=23 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123132819/https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=CV/Pers/Milne,|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The bulk of A. A. Milne's papers are housed at the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. The collection, established at the centre in 1964, consists of manuscript drafts and fragments for over 150 of Milne's works, as well as correspondence, legal documents, genealogical records, and some personal effects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00466|title=A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne: An Inventory of His Collection in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center|website=norman.hrc.utexas.edu|access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref> The library division holds several books formerly belonging to Milne and his wife Dorothy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/search/x?SEARCH=milne&searchscope=18&sortdropdown=-|title=University of Texas Libraries / HRC|website=catalog.lib.utexas.edu|language=en|access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref> The center also has small collections of correspondence from [[Christopher Robin Milne]] and Milne's frequent illustrator [[E. H. Shepard]].

==Religious views==
Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|British Home Guard]]. He wrote: "In fighting Hitler we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God."<ref>{{cite book| last = Milne| first = Alan Alexander| author-link = A. A. Milne| title = War with Honour| publisher=Macmillan| year = 1940| location = London| pages = 16–17}}</ref>

His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:
{{blockquote|The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief&nbsp;– call it what you will{{snd}}than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.<ref>{{cite book|last=Simpson |first=James B. |title=Simpson's Contemporary Quotations |url=http://www.bartleby.com/63/93/4393.html |year=1988 |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] |location=Boston, Massachusetts |isbn=0-395-43085-2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122122546/http://www.bartleby.com/63/93/4393.html |archive-date=22 January 2009 }}</ref>}}

He wrote in the poem "Explained":

{{blockquote|<poem>Elizabeth Ann
Said to her Nan:
"Please will you tell me how God began?
{{em|Somebody}} must have made Him. So
Who could it be, 'cos I want to know?"<ref name="Milne 2009">{{cite book| last = Milne| first = A. A.| others = illustrated by E.H. Shepard| title = The Winnie-the-Pooh Collection Set|location=London| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=g8hOrDLnx-gC| year = 2009| publisher = Penguin| isbn = 978-0-525-42292-1 }}</ref></poem>}}

He also wrote in the poem "[[Vespers (poem)|Vespers]]":

{{blockquote|<poem>"Oh! Thank you, God, for a lovely day.
And what was the other I had to say?
I said "Bless Daddy," so what can it be?
Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me."<ref name="Milne 2009"/></poem>}}

==Works==
===Novels===
* ''Lovers in London'' (1905. Some consider this more of a short story collection; Milne did not like it and considered ''The Day's Play'' as his first book.)
* ''[[Once on a Time]]'' (1917)
* ''Mr. Pim'' (1921) (A novelisation of his 1919 play ''Mr. Pim Passes By'')
* ''[[The Red House Mystery]]'' (1922). Serialised: London (Daily News), serialised daily from 3 to 28 August 1921
* ''Two People'' (1931) (Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.)
* ''[[Four Days' Wonder (novel)|Four Days' Wonder]]'' (1933)
* ''[[Chloe Marr]]'' (1946)

===Non-fiction===
* ''Peace With Honour'' (1934)
* ''It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer'' (1939)
* ''War With Honour'' (1940)
* ''War Aims Unlimited'' (1941)
* ''Year In, Year Out'' (1952) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)

====''Punch'' articles====
* ''The Day's Play'' (1910)
* ''The Holiday Round'' (1912)
* ''[[Once a Week (book)|Once a Week]]'' (1914)
* ''[[The Sunny Side]]'' (1921)
* ''Those Were the Days'' (1929) [The four volumes above, compiled]

===Newspaper articles and book introductions===
* ''[[The Chronicles of Clovis]]'' by "[[Saki]]" (1911) [Introduction to]
* ''Not That It Matters'' (1919)
* ''If I May'' (1920)
* ''By Way of Introduction'' (1929)
* ''Women and Children First!''. John Bull, 10 November 1934
* ''It Depends on the Book'' (1943, in September issue of Red Cross Newspaper ''The Prisoner of War'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwiimemories.co.uk/journal4/aa4p10.jpg|title=It depends on the book|last=Milne|first=A. A.|year=1943|access-date=17 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617000107/http://www.wwiimemories.co.uk/journal4/aa4p10.jpg|archive-date=17 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Story collections for children===
* ''[[A Gallery of Children]]'' (1925)
* ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' (1926) (illustrated by [[Ernest H. Shepard]])
* ''[[The House at Pooh Corner]]'' (1928) (illustrated by [[Ernest H. Shepard|E. H. Shepard]])
* ''Short Stories''

===Poetry collections for children===
* ''[[When We Were Very Young]]'' (1924) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
* ''[[Now We Are Six]]'' (1927) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)

===Story collections===
* ''The Secret and other stories'' (1929)
* ''The Birthday Party'' (1948)
* ''A Table Near the Band'' (1950)

===Poetry===
* ''[[When We Were Very Young]]'' (1924) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
* ''For the Luncheon Interval'' (1925) [poems from ''Punch'']
* ''[[Now We Are Six]]'' (1927) (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)
* ''Behind the Lines'' (1940)
* ''The Norman Church'' (1948)

===Screenplays and plays===
* ''[[Wurzel-Flummery]]'' (1917)
* ''Belinda'' (1918)
* ''The Boy Comes Home'' (1918)
* ''Make-Believe'' (1918) (children's play)
* ''The Camberley Triangle'' (1919)
* ''[[Mr. Pim Passes By]]'' (1919)
* ''The Red Feathers'' (1920)
* ''The Romantic Age'' (1920)
* ''The Stepmother'' (1920)
* ''[[The Truth About Blayds]]'' (1920)
* ''The Bump'' (1920, Minerva Films), starring [[C. Aubrey Smith]] and [[Faith Celli]]
* ''Twice Two'' (1920, Minerva Films)
* ''Five Pound Reward'' (1920, Minerva Films)
* ''Bookworms'' (1920, Minerva Films)
* ''The Great Broxopp'' (1921)
* ''[[The Dover Road (play)|The Dover Road]]'' (1921)
* ''The Lucky One'' (1922)
* ''The Truth About Blayds'' (1922)
* ''The Artist: A Duologue'' (1923)
* ''Give Me Yesterday'' (1923) (a.k.a. ''Success'' in the UK)
* ''Ariadne'' (1924)
* ''The Man in the Bowler Hat: A Terribly Exciting Affair'' (1924)
* ''To Have the Honour'' (1924)
* ''Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers'' (1926)
* ''Success'' (1926)
* ''Miss Marlow at Play'' (1927)
* ''Winnie the Pooh''. Written specially by Milne for a 'Winnie the Pooh Party' in aid of the National Mother-Saving Campaign, and performed once at Seaford House on 17 March 1928<ref>(London) Daily News, 9 March 1928</ref>
* ''[[The Fourth Wall (Milne play)|The Fourth Wall]]'' or ''The Perfect Alibi'' (1928) (later adapted for the film ''[[Birds of Prey (1930 film)|Birds of Prey]]'' (1930), directed by [[Basil Dean]])
* ''[[The Ivory Door]]'' (1929)
* ''[[Toad of Toad Hall]]'' (1929) (adaptation of ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'')
* ''[[Michael and Mary (play)|Michael and Mary]]'' (1930)
* ''Other People's Lives'' (1933) (a.k.a. ''They Don't Mean Any Harm'')
* ''Miss Elizabeth Bennet'' (1936) [based on ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'']
* ''Sarah Simple'' (1937)
* ''Gentleman Unknown'' (1938)
* ''The General Takes Off His Helmet'' (1939) in ''[[The Queen's Book of the Red Cross]]''
* ''[[The Ugly Duckling (play)|The Ugly Duckling]]'' (1941)
* ''Before the Flood'' (1951).

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Last, Kevin J. ''Remembering Christopher Robin: Escaping Winnie-the-Pooh''. Lewes (UK), Unicorn. 2023. {{ISBN|9781911397649}}
* Thwaite, Ann. ''A.A. Milne: His Life''. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. {{ISBN|0571138888}}
* Toby, Marlene. ''A.A. Milne, Author of Winnie-the-Pooh''. Chicago: Children's Press, 1995. {{ISBN|051604270X}}
* {{cite book |last=Wullschläger |first=Jackie |author-link=Jackie Wullschläger |title=Inventing Wonderland: The Lives of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, and A. A. Milne |publisher=Methuen |date=2001 |orig-year=1995 |location=London |isbn=978-0-413-70330-9}}

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* [http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00466 A. A. Milne Collection] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]]
* [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01300 Ann Thwaite Collection of A. A. Milne] at the [[Harry Ransom Center]]
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* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141007030101/https://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Alan_Alexander_Milne/ Works by A. A. Milne at BiblioWiki (Canada)]}} includes the complete text of the four Pooh books
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* [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp03100 Portraits of A. A. Milne] in the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]]
* [http://essays.quotidiana.org/milne/ Essays by Milne] at Quotidiana.org
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1667391,00.html Milne extract] in ''The Guardian''
* [http://www.just-pooh.com/milne.html Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930022112/http://www.just-pooh.com/milne.html |date=30 September 2009 }} at Just-Pooh.com
* [https://www.poeticous.com/a-a-milne/ A. A. Milne at poeticous.com]
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* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/aa-milne AA Milne {{!}} Books {{!}} The Guardian]
* [http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079109/ Finding aid to the A.A. Milne letters at Columbia University] [https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml.html/ Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

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