LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
According to the first plan, my mother and
our two selves are to travel down together, and
my father follow us afterwards in about a fortnight
or three weeks. We have promised to
spend a couple of days at Ibthorp in our way.
We must all meet at Bath, you know, before we
set out for the sea, and, everything considered, I
think the first plan as good as any.
My father and mother, wisely aware of the difficulty of finding in all Bath such a bed as their own, have resolved on taking it with them; all the beds, indeed, that we shall want are to be removed — viz., besides theirs, our own two, the best for a spare one, and two for servants; and these necessary articles will probably be the only material ones that it would answer to send down. I do not think it will be worth while to remove any of our chests of drawers; we shall be able to get some of a much more commodious sort, made of deal, and painted to look very neat; and I flatter myself that for little comforts of all kinds our apartment will be one of the most complete things of the sort all over Bath, Bristol included.
We have thought at times of removing the sideboard, or a Pembroke table, or some other piece of furniture, but, upon the whole, it has ended in thinking that the trouble and risk of
the removal would be more than the advantage
