Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
1 item (3 pages, with address panel) ; 22.8 x 37.2 cm
With red wafer, addressed to Miss Austen, Chawton, "By favour of Mr. Gray"; written from Henrietta St.
"March 1814" 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.
Watermark: Horn inside shield over "1810".
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.
Commenting on The farmer's wife by Charles Dibdin; telling Cassandra to plan to see Richard III; noting that Henry Austen has finished Mansfield Park and "his approbation has not lessened"; complaining of having a cold. The letter also mentions several actors including Charles Mathews, John Liston, John Emery, and Charles Mayne Young.