A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Emma
by letter, you will be so good as to write by the post, directing to
me (Miss J. Austen), Chawton, near Alton; and that for anything
of a larger bulk, you will add to the same direction, by Collier’s
Southampton coach.
‘I remain, dear Sir,
‘Yours very faithfully,
‘J. AUSTEN.’
About the same time the following letters passed between the
Countess of Morley° and the writer of ‘Emma.’ I do not know
whether they were personally acquainted with each other, nor in
what this interchange of civilities originated:––
The Countess of Morley to Miss J. Austen
‘Saltram, December 27 (1815).
‘MADAM,–– I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction
to “Emma,” and am infinitely obliged to you for your
kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of
her acquaintance some days sooner than I should otherwise have
had it. I am already become intimate with the Woodhouse family,
and feel that they will not amuse and interest me less than the
Bennetts, Bertrams, Norrises,° and all their admirable predecessors.
I can give them no higher praise.
‘I am, Madam, your much obliged
‘F. MORLEY.’
Miss J. Austen to the Countess of Morley
‘MADAM,–– Accept my thanks for the honour of your note,
and for your kind disposition in favour of “Emma.” In my
present state of doubt as to her reception in the world, it is
particularly gratifying to me to receive so early an assurance of
your Ladyship’s approbation. It encourages me to depend on the
same share of general good opinion which “Emma’s” predecessors
have experienced, and to believe that I have not yet, as