BIB_ID
282011
Accession number
MA 7301
Creator
Austen, Fanny, 1790-1814.
Display Date
1814 June 30-Jul. 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Crossed handwriting in black and red ink..
Docketed, with postmark, and seal; addressed: The Honble / The Chief Justice Esten / St. Georges / Bermuda.
Fanny's husband, Capt. Charles Austen, served as captain of the HMS Namur from Nov. 1811 to Sept. 1814 while the vessel was on harbor duty in the Thames estuary at the Nore near Sheerness.
To her brother-in-law, James Christie Esten, husband of Esther (Palmer) Esten.
Docketed, with postmark, and seal; addressed: The Honble / The Chief Justice Esten / St. Georges / Bermuda.
Fanny's husband, Capt. Charles Austen, served as captain of the HMS Namur from Nov. 1811 to Sept. 1814 while the vessel was on harbor duty in the Thames estuary at the Nore near Sheerness.
To her brother-in-law, James Christie Esten, husband of Esther (Palmer) Esten.
Summary
Concerning their recent stay in Keppel Street; the Austen children and Esten's son Palmer; the three little girls left in London owing to an outbreak of measles on board the HMS Namur; excitement occasioned by the visit of the Allied Sovereigns to England ("I am afraid that poor Palmer was not gratified any more than myself with a sight of the allied sovereigns before they left town, he has however still a chance of seeing Blucher & Platoff who I believe will remain in town ... my little girls came home one day from walking in ecstasies at the thought of having seen the King of Prussia; this will give you an idea how entirely these great Personages engrossed the thoughts of every description of people"); dinner with Sir John and Lady Warren and reports of Bermuda; servants and difficulties finding a nurse; news of the children and their progress; sister Harriet's poor health and the prospect that a visit to Kintbury may do her good.
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