BIB_ID
282225
Accession number
MA 977.4
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, sender.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 item (4 pages) : illustrations ; 22.8 x 36.9 cm
Notes
With postmark and remnant of red wafer, addressed to Miss Austen, Steventon, Overton, Hants [Hampshire]; written from 13, Queen Square.
The top quarter of p. 3-4 has been cut away; ca. 7 lines of text are missing from each of these pages.
With a drawing of a floral lace pattern on p.2.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
The top quarter of p. 3-4 has been cut away; ca. 7 lines of text are missing from each of these pages.
With a drawing of a floral lace pattern on p.2.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: "Portal & Co 1796".
Provenance
Bequeathed by Cassandra Elizabeth Austen to Fanny, Lady Knatchbull, in 1845; inherited by Lord Brabourne, 1882; probably in the Puttick & Simpson sale of 26-8 June 1893; Alfred Morrison sale, 10 December 1918, lot 2154; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from the New York dealer Ernest Dressel North in 1920.
Summary
Reporting on Edward Austen's health and the treatments he is trying at Bath; describing a new cloak and hat and the fruits that women are wearing as ornaments; mentioning some forms of entertainment in Bath, including a "grand gala" at "Sydney Gardens" and a presentation of "the Colours to some Corps of Yeomanry or other, in the Crescent." The letter also mentions a young man she met who "has heard that Evelina was written by Dr. Johnson."
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