ut a Haden, a sort of wonderful
nondescript creature on two legs, something
between a man and an angel, but without the least
spice of an apothecary. He is, perhaps, the only
person _not_ an apothecary hereabouts. He has
never sung to us. He will not sing without a
pianoforte accompaniment.

* * * * *

I am sorry my mother has been suffering, and am
afraid this exquisite weather is too good to agree
with her. _I_ enjoy it all over me, from top to
toe, from right to left, longitudinally,
perpendicularly, diagonally; and I cannot but
selfishly hope we are to have it last till
Christmas--nice, unwholesome, unseasonable,
relaxing, close, muggy weather.

Yours affectionately,
J. A.

It strikes me that I have no business to give the
P. R. a binding, but we will take counsel upon the
question.

Two more letters were written by the author to her publisher while the
work was in his hands.

On December 11, she writes:--

As I find that _Emma_ is advertised for
publication as early as Saturday next, I think it
best to lose no time in settling all that remains
to be settled on the subject, and adopt this
method as involving the smallest tax on your
time. . . .

. . . The title-page must be '_Emma_, dedicated by
permission to H.R.H. the Prince Regent.' And it is
my particular wish that one set should be
completed and sent to H.R.H. two or three days
before the work is generally public. It should be
sent under cover to the Rev. J. S. Clarke,
Librarian, Carlton House. I shall subjoin a list
of those persons to whom I must trouble you to
forward also a set each, when the work is out; all
unbound with 'From the Authoress' on the first
page.[305]

. . . I return also _Mansfield Park_ as ready for a
second edition, I believe, as I can make it.[306]
I am in Hans Place till the 16th; from that day
inclusive, my direction will be Chawton, Alton,
Hants.[307]

On receipt of this, Mr. Murray seems to have sent round a n