'Hans Place, December 11 (1815).

'DEAR SIR,--I am much obliged by yours, and very happy to feel
everything arranged to our mutual satisfaction. As to my direction
about the title-page, it was arising from my ignorance only, and from
my having never noticed the proper place for a dedication. I thank
you for putting me right. Any deviation from what is usually done in
such cases is the last thing I should wish for. I feel happy in
having a friend to save me from the ill effect of my own blunder.

'Yours, dear Sir, &c.
'J. AUSTEN.'

'Chawton, April 1, 1816.

'DEAR SIR,--I return you the "Quarterly Review" with many thanks. The
Authoress of "Emma" has no reason, I think, to complain of her
treatment in it, except in the total omission of "Mansfield Park." I
cannot but be sorry that so clever a man as the Reviewer of "Emma"
should consider it as unworthy of being noticed. You will be pleased
to hear that I have received the Prince's thanks for the _handsome_
copy I sent him of "Emma." Whatever he may think of _my_ share of the
work, yours seems to have been quite right.

'In consequence of the late event in Henrietta Street, I must request
that if you should at any time have anything to communicate 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_.