BIB_ID
282327
Accession number
MA 977.25
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
1809 Jan. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
"Jane" and "Jany 24 1809" are written in the address panel in an unknown hand.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
Includes 10 lines of crossed writing on p. 1.
With postmark and seal, addressed to Miss Austen, Edwd Austen's Esqr, Godmersham Park, Faversham, Kent; written from Castle Square.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
Includes 10 lines of crossed writing on p. 1.
With postmark and seal, addressed to Miss Austen, Edwd Austen's Esqr, Godmersham Park, Faversham, Kent; written from Castle Square.
Provenance
Alfred Morrison sale (10 Dec. 1918) lot 2154; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from the New York dealer Ernest Dressel North in 1920.
Summary
Mentioning a letter she has received from her brother Charles; expressing pleasure that her niece Fanny is enjoying her letters, but expressing concern that "the knowlege of my being exposed to her discerning Criticism, may not hurt my stile"; complaining about a leaking closet; commenting on her mother's attempts to get her servants to move with them to Chawton; describing a ball; noting the death of Sir John Moore in Spain. The letter also contains references to Hannah More's Coelebs in search of a wife, Burney's Cecilia, "Ed. Cooper's Sermons," Homer, Virgil, and Ovid.
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