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Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra from Manydown Park, 11 February 1801. Cassandra was Jane Austen's only sister and her closest confidante. 'My dear Cassandra, as I have no Mr. Smithson to write of I can date my letters. Yours to my mother has been forwarded to me this morning, with a request that I would take on me the office of acknowledging it. I should not however have thought it necessary to write so soon, but for the arrival of a letter from Charles to myself. It was written last Saturday from off the Start, and conveyed to Popham Lane by Capt. Boyle, in his way to Midgham. He came from Lisbon in the Endymion [a ship]. I will copy Charles' account of his conjectures about Frank. "He has not seen my brother lately, nor does he expect to find him arrived, as he me Capt. Inglis at Rhodes going up to take command of the Petterel as he was coming down, but supposes he will arrive in less than a fortnight from this time, in some ship which is expected to reach England with dispatches from Sir Ralph Abercrombie. The event must shew what sort of a conjuror Capt. Boyle is. The Endymion has...'.

Date

1801

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A15_378

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,7Mo (2,9Mo) / 31,7cm x 40,1cm / 3744 x 4737 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England library family arts country writing letter English sister sisters text location century handwriting sibling literature stamp correspondence B&W British Library lettering calligraphy 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century ink manuscript English literature Jane Austen Austen Jane Jane Austen Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Austen Jane Heritage Art 19th-century Cassandra Elizabeth Cassandra