BIB_ID
81438
Accession number
MA 2911.10
Creator
Austen, Cassandra, 1773-1845, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Alberta H. Burke, 1975.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 22.9 cm x 37.5 cm and 22.8 x 18.7 cm
Notes
With postmark and black wax seal; date is from postmark.
Addressed to "Miss Knight, Godmersham Park, Canterbury."
Watermark: Crown surmounting a device with a post-horn in it.
Part of a collection of 8 autograph letters from Jane Austen, 2 autograph letters from Cassandra Austen, a memorandum of accounts in Jane Austen's hand, and a memorandum in Cassandra's hand concerning the dates of composition of Jane Austen's novels. Items in the collection are described in 12 individual records (MA 2911.1-12).
High reserve.
Addressed to "Miss Knight, Godmersham Park, Canterbury."
Watermark: Crown surmounting a device with a post-horn in it.
Part of a collection of 8 autograph letters from Jane Austen, 2 autograph letters from Cassandra Austen, a memorandum of accounts in Jane Austen's hand, and a memorandum in Cassandra's hand concerning the dates of composition of Jane Austen's novels. Items in the collection are described in 12 individual records (MA 2911.1-12).
High reserve.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Crowned shield with horn inside, over GS.
Provenance
Inherited by Lord Brabourne, 1882; sale (Puttick & Simpson, 26-8 June 1893); Colbeck Radford & Co., London, Nov. 1930, cat. no. 12; sale (Sotheby's, 23 June 1947); Alberta H. Burke.
Summary
Describing the death of Jane Austen.
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