BIB_ID
282240
Accession number
MA 977.9
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, sender.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 23.8 x 37.2 cm (unfolded)
Notes
With postmark, addressed to Miss Austen, Godmersham Park, Faversham, Kent; seal cut out.
Most of the letter is written on "Saturday," Jan. 3; only the paragraph below the address panel is labeled "Monday," Jan. 5.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
Most of the letter is written on "Saturday," Jan. 3; only the paragraph below the address panel is labeled "Monday," Jan. 5.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Shield with horn inside over cursive letters "PB".
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
Suggesting where the family should rent a house in Bath; discussing arrangements for meeting in Bath, moving beds to Bath, and ordering furniture; musing on leaving Steventon: "I get more & more reconciled to the idea of our removal. We have lived long enough in this Neighbourhood."
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