You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for Cassy certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago: however last nightthe time came, and without a great deal of warning, everything was soon happily over. We have now another girl, a present plaything for her sister Cassy and a future companion. She is to be Jenny, and seems to me as if she would be as like Henry, as Cassy is to Neddy. Your sister thank God is pure well after it, and send her love to you and my brother, not forgetting James and Philly…
[Letter from Mr. Austen to his sister Philadelphia Walter, December 17, 1775, as quoted from Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen, A Family Record, Cambridge, 2004, p.27.]
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Enkele hoogtepunten zijn een brief van 2 juni 1799 aan haar zuster, die een tekening van het kantwerk van haar mantel omvat, en een brief van 20 juli 1817, geschreven door Cassandra aan Fanny Knight, Austen's geliefde nichtje, rapportage Austen's dood: "Ik heb een schat verloren, zoals een zuster, zoals een vriend als nooit overtroffen. "
first edition of Mansfield Park
Auction with one Jane Austen title: a first edition of Mansfield Park sold today at Sotheby’s for $21,250 ~
Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts, Sale N08602,
11 Dec 09, New York. Session 2
Lot 75 ~ AUSTEN, JANE
10,000—15,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium: 21,250 USD
Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts, Sale N08602,
11 Dec 09, New York. Session 2
Lot 75 ~ AUSTEN, JANE
10,000—15,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium: 21,250 USD
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