BIB_ID
81515
Accession number
MA 2911.1
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Alberta H. Burke, 1975.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
With mark of seal or wafer, addressed to "Miss Austen / Mrs. Lloyd's / Up. Hurstbourn / Andover."
Docketed.
Includes cross-writing.
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.
Docketed.
Includes cross-writing.
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: 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.
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