Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
1 item (5 pages) ; 22.4 cm
Written from Carlton House.
Dated "Thursday 1815"; the precise date is from Le Faye's edition of Austen's letters.
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.
Watermark: "C Wilmott 1814."
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.
Thanking her for a copy of Emma and reporting that "it is gone to the Prince Regent"; making suggestions about including a clergyman in her next novel [Austen incorporated these suggestions into her "Plan of a Novel," MA 1034.1 in this collection]; mentioning his own books of sermons and "Falconers Shipwreck"; inviting her to visit his personal library.