The Letters of Jane Austen: Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord BradbourneAusten, Jane
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The Letters of Jane Austen: Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne
Austen, Jane
Austen, Cassandra, 1773-1845; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Correspondence; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
I enclose the eighteen-pence due to my mother. The rose color was 6_s._
and the other 4_s._ per yard. There was but two yards and a quarter of
the dark slate in the shop, but the man promised to match it and send it
off correctly.
Fanny bought her Irish at Newton's in Leicester Square, and I took the
opportunity of thinking about your Irish, and seeing one piece of the
yard wide at 4_s._, and it seemed to me very good; good enough for your
purpose. It might at least be worth your while to go there, if you have
no other engagements. Fanny is very much pleased with the stockings she
has bought of Remmington, silk at 12_s._, cotton at 4_s._ 3_d._ She
thinks them great bargains, but I have not seen them yet, as my hair was
dressing when the man and the stockings came.
The poor girls and their teeth! I have not mentioned them yet, but we
were a whole hour at Spence's, and Lizzy's were filed and lamented over
again, and poor Marianne had two taken out after all, the two just
beyond the eye teeth, to make room for those in front. When her doom was
fixed, Fanny, Lizzy, and I walked into the next room, where we heard
each of the two sharp and hasty screams.
The little girls' teeth I can suppose in a critical state, but I think
he must be a lover of teeth and money and mischief, to parade about
Fanny's. I would not have had him look at mine for a shilling a tooth
and double it. It was a disagreeable hour.
We then went to Wedgwood's, where my brother and Fanny chose a
dinner-set. I believe the pattern is a small lozenge in purple, between
lines of narrow gold, and it is to have the crest.
We must have been three-quarters of an hour at Grafton House, Edward
sitting by all the time with wonderful patience. There Fanny bought the
net for Anna's gown, and a beautiful square veil for herself. The edging
there is very cheap. I was tempted by some, and I bought some very nice
plaiting lace at 3_s._ 4_d._
Fanny desires me to tell Martha, with her kind love, that Birchall
assured her there was no second set of Hook's Lessons for Beginners, and
that, by my advice, she has therefore chosen her a set by another
composer. I thought she would rather have something than not. It costs
six shillings.
With love to you all, including Triggs, I remain,
Yours very affectionately, J. AUSTEN.
Henrietta St., autumn of 1813.
Miss AUSTEN, Chawton.
By favor of
XLVII.
GODMERSHAM PARK, Thursday (Sept. 23).
MY DEAREST CASSANDRA,--Thank you five hundred and forty times for the
exquisite piece of workmanship which was brought into the room this
morning, while we were at breakfast, with some very inferior works of
art in the same way, and which I read with high glee, much delighted
with everything it told, whether good or bad. It is so rich in striking
intelligence that I hardly know what to reply to first. I believe finery
must have it.
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