te recovered, to go out to
him. . . . There is a pretty little Lady Marianne of
the party, to be shaken hands with, and asked if
she remembered Mr. Austen. . . .

I shall write to Charles by the next packet,
unless you tell me in the meantime of your
intending to do it.

Believe me, if you chuse,
Y^{r} aff^{te} Sister.

'Cousin George' was the Rev. George Leigh Cooke, long known and
respected at Oxford, where he held important offices, and had the
privilege of helping to form the minds of men more eminent than himself.
As tutor at Corpus Christi College, he had under his charge Arnold,
Keble, and Sir J. T. Coleridge.

The 'intended partnership' with Martha was an arrangement by which
Martha Lloyd joined the family party: an arrangement which was based on
their affectionate friendship for her, and which succeeded so well that
it lasted through Southampton and Chawton, and did not end until after
the death of Mrs. Austen in 1827.

FOOTNOTES:

[124] Probably, when they were on a visit to the Fowles at Elkstone,
between Cheltenham and Cirencester. See p. 373.

[125] Family MS. One short paragraph, _Memoir_, p. 65; the remainder
unpublished.

[126] Afterwards Sir William Heathcote, M.P.

[127] We remember that in _Mansfield Park_ William Price had been able
to afford only the amber cross as a present to Fanny, and not the chain.
See _Sailor Brothers_, p. 92.

[128] _Terrace_ seems to be a slip; at least, its present name is Sydney
Place. We have, unfortunately, no letters dated from this house.

[129] There is an inscription to his memory on the wall of the south
aisle in the Abbey.

[130] See p. 92.

[131] In an article called 'Is it Just?' p. 282.

[132] _Memoir_, p. 24.

[133] _Autobiography_, vol. ii. p. 40.

[134] See end of Chapter XIII.

[135] The watermarks of 1803 and 1804 on the paper are the sole
authority for this date.

[136] P. 296.

[137] Miss Hill seems to have identified also the cottage, 'Mrs. Dean's
house,' in which the Austens themselves lodged in 1804. No doubt
decanters, and everything else, have long been perfectly immaculate.

[138] Nearly all _Memoir_, p. 68; the remainder unpublished.

[139] Chap. V.

[140] _Sailor Brothers_, p. 127.

[141] Mr. Oscar Fay Adams, a most careful investigator, failed to
discover the inscription in Walcot Church