BIB_ID
296879
Accession number
MA 1034.1-12
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
[1805-1817].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
Description
12 items (29 p.), unbound : ill. (port.) ; size varies
Notes
High reserve.
Provenance
Plan of a Novel, Austen-Clarke correspondence, and the notes about the composition dates and proceeds of her novels (MA 1034.1, 4-5, 7-11): Cassandra Austen; by descent to her niece, Cassandra Esten Austen; by descent to her five nieces, Jane, Emma Florence, Frances Cecilia, Edith, and Blanche Frederica Austen; offered for sale by Jane, Emma Florence, and Blanche Frederica Austen through R.W. Chapman in 1925; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925. The Watsons (MA 1034.2): Cassandra Austen; given to her niece, Caroline Mary Craven Austen, in 1844; by descent to her nephew, W. Austen-Leigh; donated by Austen-Leigh to a Red Cross Sale at Christie's in London, 1915; purchased by Wernher; Lady Ludlow; sold to the London dealer C.J. Sawyer; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
Summary
This collection includes Austen's autograph manuscript of a "Plan of a Novel" (MA 1034.1); the autograph manuscript of a portion of The Watsons (MA 1034.2); an autograph manuscript of a poem, "On Capt. Foote's marriage with Miss Patten" (MA 1034.3); an autograph note about the composition dates of three novels (MA 1034.4); an autograph note about the proceeds of her novels (MA 1034.5); an autograph letter signed to her niece with every word written backwards (MA 1034.6); an autograph copy of a letter to James Stanier Clarke (MA 1034.7); two letters in Clarke's autograph sent to Austen (MA 1034.8-9); an address sheet in Clarke's autograph sent to Austen (MA 1034.10); two manuscript notes with "Correspondence with Mr. Clarke" written on them (MA 1034.11); and a steel engraving of Jane Austen (MA 1034.12). Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 1034.1-12).
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