BIB_ID
282020
Accession number
MA 7297
Creator
Austen, Fanny, 1790-1814.
Display Date
1812 Mar. 7.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.6 cm
Notes
Postmarked with remains of seal; addressed: Mrs. J.C. Esten / 22 Keppel Street / Rusell Square / London.
To her sister, born Esther (or Ester) Palmer, wife of James Christie Esten.
Capt. Charles Austen served as captain of the HMS Namur from Nov. 1811 to Sept. 1814; during this time, the vessel was on harbor duty and based in the Thames estuary at the Nore near Sheerness.
To her sister, born Esther (or Ester) Palmer, wife of James Christie Esten.
Capt. Charles Austen served as captain of the HMS Namur from Nov. 1811 to Sept. 1814; during this time, the vessel was on harbor duty and based in the Thames estuary at the Nore near Sheerness.
Summary
Postponing plans to receive Mrs. Esten's nurse Polly owing to her nurse Nancy's postponement of her previously planned trip to visit her mother; urging her to visit for a change of air, "Harrick will go up in the tender with Papa & you will not certainly refuse to leave Hamilton with Mama until he can come to us without fear or apprehension" (a reference to the fact that the children have been left onshore owing to recent outbreaks of illness on shipboard); Mr. Palmer and Harriet to return soon to London; family news and visiting among family members.
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