The Story of Miss Moppet sisters, and appears as a character in both books featuring him: "The Tale of Tom Kitten" and "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding" (1908). Potter was an admirer of American author Joel Chandler Harris and created a series of plates in the 1890s for his Uncle Remus stories, possibly in an attempt to find career direction. So deep was her admiration, Lear speculates the scene of Miss Moppet wrapping her head in the duster comes from a similar scene in an Uncle Remus tale in which Br'er Fox "feigns illness in a rocking chair, wrapped up with
Johannes Remus Quietanus bishop of Strasbourg, was obliged to go there to defend his possessions. Remus Quietanus joined his entourage. In 1619, Remus Quietanus met Maria Schlitzweck, a young Alsatian lady he would soon marry. He settled in Rouffach around 1620. His wife gave birth to a boy in 1623. Remus Quietanus was named the physician (doctor) of the city. Maria Schlitzweck died on 27 February 1635. Quietanus married again in 1650 with Maria Helena Freudenstehlin, who came from Ensisheim. Remus Quietanus died in Rouffach on 17 October 1654. When Remus Quietanus wrote to Kepler in Rome in 1611, the two men did