LETTERS OF JANE AUSTENthrough Croydon and Kingston, which will be

much pleasanter than any other way; but he is decidedly for Clapham and Battersea. God bless you all!

I flatter myself that itty Dordy will not forget me at least under a week. Kiss him for me.

Miss Austen, Godmersham Park,
⁠Faversham.

My dear Cassandra,

Your letter was a most agreeable surprise to me to-day, and I have taken a long sheet of paper to show my gratitude.

We arrived here yesterday between four and five, but I cannot send you quite so triumphant an account of our last day′s journey as of the first and second. Soon after I had finished my letter from Staines, my mother began to suffer from the exercise or fatigue of travelling, and she was a good deal indisposed. She had not a very good night at Staines, but bore her journey better than I had expected, and at Basingstoke, where we stopped more than half an hour, received

much comfort from a mess of broth and