BIB_ID
79941
Accession number
MA 3611
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
[1812 Oct.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1977.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Several different copies of this letter exist. This copy was apparently made by Fanny Caroline Lefroy, the recipient's daughter. She notes that she gave the original letter to "Cholmeley Austen Leigh for his Collection of Autographs."
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 Dec. 1977, lot 268).
Summary
Sending her thanks; joking about a book they read recently; alluding to an incident in which the Alton coach was overturned.
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