dinner set. I believe the pattern is
a small lozenge in purple, between lines of narrow
gold, and it is to have the crest.

* * * * *

With love to you all, including Triggs,[263] I
remain,

Yours very affectionately,
J. AUSTEN.

The journey from London to Godmersham was no doubt duly narrated in a
letter now missing. Those from Godmersham are filled with the ordinary
comings and goings of a large family party, and allusions to Kent
neighbours--of whom Cassandra would know just enough to be interested in
their proceedings.

Godmersham Park:
Thursday [September 23, 1813].

MY DEAREST CASSANDRA,--Thank you five hundred and
forty times for the exquisite piece of workmanship
which was brought into the room this morning,
while we were at breakfast, with some very
inferior works of art in the same way, and which I
read with high glee, much delighted with
everything it told, whether good or bad. It is so
rich in striking intelligence that I hardly know
what to reply to first. I believe finery must have
it.

I am extremely glad that you like the poplin. I
thought it would have my mother's approbation, but
was not so confident of yours. Remember that it is
a present. Do not refuse me. I am very rich.

* * * * *

Let me know when you begin the new tea, and the
new white wine. My present elegancies have not yet
made me indifferent to such matters. I am still a
cat if I see a mouse.

* * * * *

''Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more,'
but to make amends for that, our visit to the
Tyldens is over. My brother, Fanny, Edwd., and I
went; Geo. stayed at home with W. K. There was
nothing entertaining, or out of the common way. We
met only Tyldens and double Tyldens. A whist-table
for the gentlemen, a grown-up musical young lady
to play backgammon with Fanny, and engravings of
the Colleges at Cambridge for me. In the morning
we returned Mrs. Sherer's visit. I li