BIB_ID
81524
Accession number
MA 977.1-43
Creator
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Display Date
[1796] Sept. 18-[1816] Sept. 8.
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Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1920.
Description
1 box (43 items, unbound) ; 22-24 cm
Notes
High reserve.
With addresses; many with postmark and seal.
With addresses; many with postmark and seal.
Provenance
Alfred Morrison sale (10 Dec. 1918) lot 2154; purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from the New York dealer Ernest Dressel North in 1920.
Summary
Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra, written from Bath, Chawton, Godmersham, London, Rowling, Southampton, and Steventon, are described in 41 individual records (MA 977.1-41). The collection also includes two prints, one of Elizabeth Smith (MA 977.42) and one of Jane Austen (MA 977.43).
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