BIB_ID
81446
Accession number
MA 1034.6
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, sender.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.4 x 18.8 cm
Notes
With postmark and mark of wafer.
Addressed to Capt. C.J. Austen RN, 22, Keppel Street, Russel Square, London.
Part of a collection that includes manuscripts, letters, and notes in Jane Austen's autograph. The collection also includes letters addressed to Austen by James Stanier Clarke and a steel engraving of Austen. Items in the collection are described in 12 individual records (MA 1034.1-12).
High reserve.
Written with every word spelled backwards.
Addressed to Capt. C.J. Austen RN, 22, Keppel Street, Russel Square, London.
Part of a collection that includes manuscripts, letters, and notes in Jane Austen's autograph. The collection also includes letters addressed to Austen by James Stanier Clarke and a steel engraving of Austen. Items in the collection are described in 12 individual records (MA 1034.1-12).
High reserve.
Written with every word spelled backwards.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Countermark: "Gater 1815".
Provenance
Descended in Charles-John Austen to his granddaughters and sold by them (ca. 1925) to J.P. Morgan.
Summary
Sending her birthday greetings; recounting six cousins visiting yesterday and saying today is "elttil Yssac's" [little Cassy's, Cassandra Eliza Austen] third birthday; saying Frank is learning Latin; feeding the robin everyday; mentioning Sally Benham's new green gown and Harriet Knight reading to Aunt Cassandra who sends her love.
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