Letter #10, Post #28

Tuesday 5 June 2012
To Cassandra, from Steventon, "Sunday.-My Mother has had a very good night, & tho' she did not get up to breakfast, feels much better to day.-I have rec:d my Aunt's letter, & thank you for your Scrap.-I will write to Charles soon.- Pray give [back to top of first page, upside down] Fanny & Edward a Kiss from me-&ask George if he has got a new Song for me.-Tis really very kind in my Aunt to ask us to Bath again; a kindness that deserves a better return than to profit by it.-

Yours Ever
J.A.

Miss Austen
Godmersham Park
Faversham
Kent." - Jane Austen, Saturday 27-Sunday 28 October 1798

Single Sheet

The letter from her aunt must have been from her aunt Mrs. Leigh-Perrot. Mrs. Austen, Jane and Cassandra had stayed with Mrs. Leigh-Perrot in Bath in November 1797. She must have invited them to stay again in the letter Jane had received from her.

                                                   Mrs. Jane Leigh-Perrot

Mrs. Leigh-Perrot was Mrs. Austen's sister-in-law, Jane Cholmeley Leigh-Perrot. Jane Cholmeley married Mrs. Austen's brother, James Leigh (1735-28 March 1817) on 9 October 1764. James Leigh added -Perrot to his name in 1751 in order to inherit the estate of his maternal great-uncle Thomas Perrot. James and Jane never had any children.

This is a link to an interesting article about the Leigh-Perrots.

I just found this webside, Two Teens in the Time of Austen (link below) - It concerns Emma Smith and Mary Gosling, two young ladies born in 1800 and 1801 who kept journals most of their lives. Emma Smith married James Edward Austen Leigh, Jane Austen's nephew-James' son, who wrote A Memoir of Jane Austen. I have not had a chance to spend too much time on this blog, but what I did find was interesting.


http://smithandgosling.wordpress.com/smithgosling-the-books/

And, so, we have finished another letter. I hope it was enjoyable and informative.

I hope you enjoy your day today!
Terrie