BIB_ID
282035
Accession number
MA 7300
Creator
Austen, Fanny, 1790-1814.
Display Date
1813 Oct. 4.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
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.
Crossed handwriting in red and black ink.
To her brother-in-law, James Christie Esten, husband of Esther (Palmer) Esten.
With postmark and seal; addressed: The Honbl / The Chief Justice Esten / St. Georges / Bermuda.
Crossed handwriting in red and black ink.
To her brother-in-law, James Christie Esten, husband of Esther (Palmer) Esten.
With postmark and seal; addressed: The Honbl / The Chief Justice Esten / St. Georges / Bermuda.
Summary
Concerning a recent hurricane in Bermuda from which the Esten family and their new house escaped with little damage; news and progress of the Austen and Esten children; Palmer Esten now back at school in London; loss of her nurse, who she was forced to send home due to the woman's poor health; her husband Capt. Charles Austen's despair of getting a frigate before the resolution of the war ("Capt Austen has given up all expectation of a frigate for the present, Coquette is paid off, wherefore nothing more is to be expected from that quarter & I rather think we shall remain here some months longer for Lord Melville does not seem disposed to give our Admiral any thing better"); naval news and news of friends and acquaintances in England and Bermuda.
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