rity of Raikes, who
was intimate with the son.

{31a} Raikes's Memoirs, vol. ii p. 207.

{35} See 'Spectator,' No. 102, on the Fan Exercise. Old gentlemen who
had survived the fashion of wearing swords were known to regret the
disuse of that custom, because it put an end to one way of distinguishing
those who had, from those who had not, been used to good society. To
wear the sword easily was an art which, like swimming and skating,
required to be learned in youth. Children could practise it early with
their toy swords adapted to their size.

{41} Mrs. Gaskell, in her tale of 'Sylvia's Lovers,' declares that this
hand-spinning rivalled harp-playing in its gracefulness.

{62} James, the writer's eldest brother.

{63} The limb was saved.

{65} The invitation, the ball dress, and some other things in this and
the preceding letter refer to a ball annually given at Hurstbourne Park,
on the anniversary of the Earl of Portsmouth's marriage with his first
wife. He was the Lord Portsmouth whose eccentricities afterwards became
notorious, and the invitations, as well as other arrangements about these
balls, were of a peculiar character.

{66a} The father of Sir William Heathcote, of Hursley, who was married
to a daughter of Mr. Bigg Wither, of Manydown, and lived in the
neighbourhood.

{66b} A very dull old lady, then residing with Mrs. Lloyd.

{68} The Duke of Sussex, son of George III., married, without royal
consent, to the Lady Augusta Murray.

{75a} Here is evidence that Jane Austen was acquainted with Bath before
it became her residence in 1801. See p.[25].

{75b} A gentleman and lady lately engaged to be married.

{80} It seems that Charles Austen, then first lieutenant of the
'Endymion,' had had an opportunity of shewing attention and kindness to
some of Lord Leven's family.

{83} See Wharton's note to Johnson and Steevens' Shakspeare.

{102} This mahogany desk, which has done good service to the public, is
now in the possession of my sister, Miss Austen.

{107} At this time, February 1813, 'Mansfield Park' was nearly finished.

{110} The present Lady Pollen, of Redenham, near Andover, then at a
school in London.

{117} See Mrs. Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol. ii. p. 215.

{122} It was her pleasure to boast of greater ignorance than she had any
just claim to. She knew more than her mother tongue, for she knew a good
deal of French and a little of Italian.

{126} Mrs.