BIB_ID
282337
Accession number
MA 977.29
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
1811 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 x 37.4 cm
Notes
"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.
With postmark and seal, addressed to Miss Austen, Edwd Austen's Esqr, Godmersham Park, Faversham.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
With postmark and seal, addressed to Miss Austen, Edwd Austen's Esqr, Godmersham Park, Faversham.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: "Ruse & Turners 1807".
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
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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