BIB_ID
129278
Accession number
MA 1034.9
Creator
Clarke, James Stanier, 1765-1834.
Display Date
1815 [Dec. 21?].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Dated "Thursday 1815"; the precise date is from Le Faye's edition of Austen's letters.
High reserve.
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).
Written from Carlton House.
High reserve.
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).
Written from Carlton House.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: "C Wilmott 1814."
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
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.
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