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Letter from James Stanier Clarke, London, to Jane Austen, 1815 November 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
129277
Accession number
MA 1034.8
Creator
Clarke, James Stanier, 1765?-1834, sender.
Credit line

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.

Description

1 item (3 pages) ; 22.7 cm

Notes

Sent from Carlton House.
With a separate address sheet; addressed to Miss Austen, No. 23, Hans Place, Sloane Street.
With postmark and remnant of wrapper.
This is Clarke's reply to Austen's letter dated November 15, 1815, her autograph copy of which is MA 1034.7 in this collection.
Part of a collection that includes manuscripts, letters, and notes in Jane Austen's autograph. The collection also includes letters addressed to Austen by James Stanier Clarke and a steel engraving of Austen. Items in the collection are described in 12 individual records (MA 1034.1-12).
High reserve.

Inscriptions/Markings

Watermark: Turner & Son.

Provenance

Cassandra Austen; by descent to her niece, Cassandra Esten Austen; by descent to her five nieces, Jane, Emma Florence, Frances Cecilia, Edith, and Blanche Frederica Austen; offered for sale by Jane, Emma Florence, and Blanche Frederica Austen through R.W. Chapman in 1925; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.

Summary

Concerning the dedication of one of her novels to the Prince Regent.