LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
spencer, with a trimming round the armholes instead of sleeves; some are long before, and some long all round, like C. Bigg’s. Our party last night supplied me with no new idea for my
letter. Yours ever,
The Pickfords are in Bath, and have called here. She is the most elegant-looking woman I have seen since I left Martha; he is as raffish in his appearance as I would wish every disciple of Godwin to be. We drink tea to-night with Mrs. Busby. I scandalised her nephew cruelly; he has but three children instead of ten.
Best love to everybody.
Miss Austen, the Rev. F. C. Fowle’s,
- Kintbury, Newbury.
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1805
The thirty-third letter begins with an account
of a visit to Eastwell Park, where lived George
Hatton and his wife. Lady Elizabeth (née Murray).
The two boys, George and Daniel, to
whom reference is made, were the late Earl of
Winchilsea (ninth earl, who succeeded his cousin
in 1826), and his brother, who subsequently mar-
