BIB_ID
282334
Accession number
MA 977.28
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
[1811 Apr. 30?].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.5 x 37.2 cm
Notes
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
The letter does not have an address and seems to have been sent inside another letter.
The only date on the letter is "Tuesday," but Apr. 30, 1811 is the probable date based on the contents of the letter.
Written from Sloane Street, her brother Henry's residence in London.
High reserve.
The letter does not have an address and seems to have been sent inside another letter.
The only date on the letter is "Tuesday," but Apr. 30, 1811 is the probable date based on the contents of the letter.
Written from Sloane Street, her brother Henry's residence in London.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Horn inside shield over letters "JH".
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
Providing an address for their brother Henry at Oxford; discussing her new clothing; mentioning that she has tried to get Mary Brunton's Self-control without success; including a poem about "the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill" for Edward.
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