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 settled on the subject, and adopt this method as involving the smallest tax on your time.

‘In the first place, I bee you to understand that I leave the terms on which the trade should be supplied with the work entirely to your judgment, entreating you to be guided in every such arrangement by your own experience of what is most likely to clear off the edition rapidly, 1 shall be satisfied with whatever you feel to be best. 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” in the first page.

‘I return you, with very many thanks, the books you have so obligingly supplied me with. I am very sensible, I assure you, of the attention you have paid to my convenience and amusement. I return also “Mansfield Park,” as ready for a second edition, I believe, as I can make it, I am in Hans Place till the 16th. From that day inclusive, my direction will be Chawton, Alton, Hants.

‘I remain, dear Sir, Y$r$ faithful humb. Serv$t$ 'J. AUSTEN.

‘I wish you would have the goodness to send a line