This, too, accords closely enough with the history of the MS. _Susan_, with the exception of one expression--namely, 'publisher in Bath'; but probably the writer of the _Memoir_ here made a slip, acting on the very natural inference that a book in the main written about Bath, by a writer at that time living in Bath, would naturally have been offered to a publisher in that town. We are, indeed, confronted by two alternatives: either that Jane Austen, in the year 1803, sold two MSS. for the sum of ten pounds each--one named _Susan_, to a London publisher, which has disappeared altogether, unless it is the same as the sketch _Lady Susan_ (which, as we have seen, is improbable), and the other (_Northanger Abbey_) to a Bath publisher; or that the publisher was really a London and not a Bath publisher, and that the original Christian name of Catherine Morland was Susan.[206] FOOTNOTES: [176] _Brabourne_, vol. ii. p. 1. [177] Southey's _Letters from England, by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella_ (London, 1807); a lively account of this country, written in the guise of letters assigned to a fictitious Spanish traveller. [178] Lord Lansdowne, who put off being cured too long: his death occurred about the time when he had proposed to go abroad. [179] See Chapter XIX. [180] Henry Austen and John Bridges. [181] William Stanley Goddard, D.D., Head Master of Winchester, 1796-1809. [182] The Rector of Godmersham. [183] Anglicised form of French word for cup-and-ball--_bilboquet_. [184] As to the move to Chawton. [185] Richard Mant, D.D., Rector of All Saints, Southampton, and father of Bishop Mant. [186] She probably wrote _n_oonshine, a somewhat incorrect way of spelling _nuncheon_ (luncheon). See _Sense and Sensibility_, c. xliv. [187] See p. 225. [188] His approaching marriage to Harriet Foote. [189] Frank. [190] The Rector of Chawton, who was a bachelor. [191] Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Perrot. [192] In 1806, the small living of Hampstead Marshall became vacant by the death of old Mr. Fowle; and Lord Craven, the patron, looking round for an 'honest man' who would hold the living for his nominee, offered it to James Austen. He, however, felt scruples, grounded on the wording of the bond of resignation, and declined the preferment. [193] Her second marriage to General H. T. Montresor. [194] A joking suggestion that Sir Brook Bridges was about to propose to Cassandra. [195] Sir John Moore's heroic twelve days' retreat to Corunna was now in progress, and the battle was fought there on January 16. It is mentioned again in the next two letters. The news on this occasion seems to have come very quickly. The _St. Albans_ (under the command of Francis Austen) was at Spithead, and there took charge of the disembarkation of the remains of Sir John Moore's forces (_Sailor Brothers_, p. 203).