A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes 265
probably Frank’s other surviving daughter Catherine, now Mrs Hubback,
suspected of having copies of The Watsons and Sanditon. Portsdown
Lodge, near Portsmouth, was Frank Austen’s last home.
Herbert Austens: Frank Austen’s fourth son Herbert and his wife.
185 Mr. Austen’s letter to Cadell: used in the Memoir, at p. 105. Anna Lefroy’s
eldest daughter Anna Jemima was married to the purchaser of the letter,
Tom Lefroy, usually distinguished as T. E. P. Lefroy, nephew of JA’s
former admirer of that name.
186 to his daughter Maria: a reference to ‘Evelyn’ from Volume the Third. See
Memoir, 43 and note.
still living ‘Chief Justice’: a reference to Tom Lefroy, who died in 1869
months before the publication of the Memoir. See p. 48 and note.
187 pocket book of 1817: a reference to their mother Mary Lloyd Austen’s
diary for that year with its brief record of events, including JA’s death.
the Manydown story: this and the following anecdote of JA’s seaside
admirer find their way into the second edition of the Memoir at p. 29 (see
note).
189 HRO, etc.: Hampshire Record Office, Austen-Leigh archive, MS
23M93.
young Hastings: a reference to the infant son of Warren Hastings who
died in the Austens’ care in 1764. See Memoir, 13 and note. Other
details recorded in this letter are included at Memoir, 11.
One Lime . . . by our father: HRO, MS 23M93/60/32 includes a poem by
James Austen, copied in JEAL’s hand, entitled ‘To Edward, On planting
a lime tree on the terrace in the meadow before the house. January 1813’.
W Knight: JEAL’s cousin, William Knight, since 1822 rector of
Steventon.
190 HRO, MS 23M93/86/3b item 73: Caroline is responding to the reception
of the recent, expanded second edition of the Memoir in which JA’s
manuscript writings were first published. Lord Stanhope had written to
the publisher Richard Bentley expressing disappointment at not finding
JA’s deathbed verses in the new edition. Bentley forwarded the letter to
JEAL who shared its contents with his two sisters. We have only Caroline’s
defensive response. This extract is also quoted in Deirdre Le Faye,
‘Jane Austen’s Verses and Lord Stanhope’s Disappointment’, The Book
Collector, 37 (1988), 86–91 (at pp. 89–90).
unluckily Uncle Henry . . . half a Century ago: the verses are those known
as ‘Winchester Races’. Henry Austen referred to them in his ‘Biographical
Notice’ (1818) as an indication of his sister’s cheerfulness of
spirits only days before her death. The reference was deleted from his
1833 ‘Memoir’. But the comic verses and Henry Austen’s tactless pride