BIB_ID
336623
Accession number
MA 1226.1
Creator
Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron, 1829-1893.
Display Date
1891 Jan. 16.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 20.3 cm
Notes
The author of the letter is Jane Austen's grand nephew, Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne.
This letter is in the original binding from which the "Lady Susan" manuscript has been disbound (MA 1226).
This letter is in the original binding from which the "Lady Susan" manuscript has been disbound (MA 1226).
Provenance
Purchased from James F. Drake in 1947; the manuscript was presented to Fanny Knight (Lady Knatchbull), from whose family it passed (1891) to the Earl of Roseberry; at the sale of his library (Sotheby, 26 June 1933) it was acquired by Walter M. Hill; the Morgan Library purchased it in 1947 from James F. Drake.
Summary
Appearing to be written to a bookseller; informing him that he has an autograph letter by Jane Austen that he is willing to sell; expressing his intention to sell the fair copy of the manuscript of "Lady Susan" at auction "at Sothebys in April or May" unless he can get a better offer for it privately.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (34.4 cm)
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