BIB_ID
282339
Accession number
MA 977.31
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, sender.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 23.3 x 38.2 cm
Notes
With mark of wafer and the note "By favour of Messrs Gray & Vincent," addressed to Miss Austen, Chawton; written from Sloane St.
"May 1813 from Sloane St" is written on the address panel in an unknown hand.
A few words are cut out at the top of p. 2.
Forms part of a collection of 41 letters from Austen to her sister and two prints (MA 977.1-43).
High reserve.
"May 1813 from Sloane St" is written on the address panel in an unknown hand.
A few words are cut out at the top of p. 2.
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: Horn inside shield over letters "HW". rbmscv
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
Mentioning a shopping trip to buy fabrics; joking about seeing a portrait of Mrs Bingley from Pride & Prejudice at an exhibition and looking fruitlessly for Mrs. Darcy's portrait in a collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds's paintings; describing various outings and visits in London; giving details of their proposed trip from London to Steventon; admitting that she does not know how to answer her niece's letter written in the character of Miss Darcy: "Even had I more time, I should not feel at all sure of the sort of Letter that Miss D. would write."
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