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Autograph letter signed with initials : Lyme, to Cassandra Austen, [1804] Sept. 14.

BIB_ID
81515
Accession number
MA 2911.1
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
[1804] Sept. 14.
Credit line
Bequest of Alberta H. Burke, 1975.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Docketed.
High reserve.
Includes crossed handwriting.
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).
With seal; addressed to "Miss Austen, Mrs. Lloyd's, Up. Hurstbourn, Andover."
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Countermark: "LVG 1803".
Provenance
By descent to Charles John Austen in 1845; by descent to his granddaughters; sold by them in the 1920s; Frederick R. Lovering; sale (Sotheby's, 3 May 1948); Alberta H. Burke.
Summary
Commenting on Cassandra's letter from Weymouth; discussing various illnesses in Lyme; describing her daily life, a ball she attended, and a visit to a Miss Armstrong; mentioning Robinson Crusoe and the Pinckards Newspaper.