I do not care to correct the inaccurate account of Jane Austen's manners
in after life: because Miss Mitford candidly expresses a doubt whether
she had not been misinformed on that point.

_Nov_. 17, 1869.




NOTES.


{0a} _The Watsons_ and _Lady Susan_ are not included in this reprint.

{1} I went to represent my father, who was too unwell to attend himself,
and thus I was the only one of my generation present.

{3} My chief assistants have been my sisters, Mrs. B. Lefroy and Miss
Austen, whose recollections of our aunt are, on some points, more vivid
than my own. I have not only been indebted to their memory for facts,
but have sometimes used their words. Indeed some passages towards the
end of the work were entirely written by the latter.

I have also to thank some of my cousins, and especially the daughters of
Admiral Charles Austen, for the use of letters and papers which had
passed into their hands, without which this Memoir, scanty as it is,
could not have been written.

{5} There seems to have been some doubt as to the validity of this
election; for Hearne says that it was referred to the Visitor, who