Autograph letter signed : Chawton, to Cassandra Austen, 1811 May 31.

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Autograph letter signed : Chawton, to Cassandra Austen, 1811 May 31.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/403759605

Proposing to invite a Miss Sharp to visit Chawton and to travel there with Cassandra and Martha Lloyd; mentioning the planned "Gaieties of Tuesday [George III's birthday] on Selbourne Common"; describing the trees and plants around the new house. The letter also notes that her neighbors the Webbs "are all reading with delight Mrs. H. More's recent publication," Practical piety (1811).

1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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