Travers printed just 500 copies of Aunt Sass, handing them out to family and friends. "You will find her occasionally in the pages of Mary Poppins." I suddenly realised that there is a book through which Aunt Sass, stern and tender, secret and proud, anonymous and loving, stalks with her silent feet," wrote the author. We do not guess at the roots that made our fruit. We write more than we know we are writing. "I thought to myself, 'Some day, in spite of her, I shall commit the disrespectful vulgarity of putting Aunt Sass in a book.' And then it occurred to me that this had already been done, though unconsciously and without intent. Travers goes on to write in the previously unpublished story about the moment she heard of her relative's death. The resemblance to Travers' most famous creation, the nanny whose spoonful of sugar made the medicine go down for the Banks children, is no coincidence.
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