brother Edward at Godmersham Park, Kent:--

'Steventon, Saturday evening, Nov. 8th.

'MY DEAR CASSANDRA,

'I thank you for so speedy a return to my two last, and particularly
thank you for your anecdote of Charlotte Graham and her cousin,
Harriet Bailey, which has very much amused both my mother and myself.
If you can learn anything farther of that interesting affair, I hope
you will mention it. I have two messages; let me get rid of them, and
then my paper will be my own. Mary fully intended writing to you by
Mr. Chute's frank, and only happened entirely to forget it, but will
write soon; and my father wishes Edward to send him a memorandum of
the price of the hops. The tables are come, and give general
contentment. I had not expected that they would so perfectly suit the
fancy of us all three, or that we should so well agree in the
disposition of them; but nothing except their own surface can have
been smoother. The two ends put together form one constant table for
everything, and the centre piece stands exceedingly well under the
glass, and holds a great deal most commodiously, without looking
awkwardly. They are both covered with green baize, and send their
best love. The Pembroke has got its destination by the sideboard, and
my mother has great delight in keeping her money and papers locked up.
The little table which used to stand there has most conveniently taken
itself off into the best bedroom; and we are now in want only of the
chiffonniere, which is neither finished nor come. So much for that
subject; I now come to another, of a very different nature, as other
subjects are very apt to be. Earle Harwood has been again giving
uneasiness to his family and talk to the neighbourhood; in the present