BIB_ID
282337
Accession number
MA 977.29
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, sender.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.9 x 37.4 cm (unfolded)
Notes
With postmark and mark of wafer, addressed to Miss Austen, Edwd Austen's Esqr, Godmersham Park, Faversham.
"May 31 1811" is written on 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.
"May 31 1811" is written on 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.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: "Ruse & Turners 1807".
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
Proposing to invite a Miss Sharp to visit Chawton and to travel there with Cassandra and Martha Lloyd; mentioning the planned "Gaieties of Tuesday [George III's birthday] on Selbourne Common"; describing the trees and plants around the new house. The letter also notes that her neighbors the Webbs "are all reading with delight Mrs. H. More's recent publication," Practical piety (1811).
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