A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Appendix 187
have they been buried out of our sight by the past generat[ion] As
this is a letter of business. I will add nothing else.
Ever yr. aff. Sister
Car Austen.
4. Copy of a letter from Caroline Austen to JEAL (NPG,
RWC/HH, fos. 8–10).
Wednesday Evg. [1869?]
My dear Edward
I have looked out the pocket book of 1817.° There are these
entries–– [‘] July 17 th Jane Austen was taken for death, about ½
past 5 in the evening.
18 th . Jane breathed her last at ½ past 4 in the morning–– only
Cassandra and I were with her. Henry came’––
The next day I see you and my Father came to Winchester, and he
stayed there 2 nights.
On the 23d. Mr. Knight & Captn. Austen came late at night.
On the 24 th . ‘Edward came early in the morning. Jane was buried
in Winchester Cathedral. We all returned home.’ On the 25 th . you
and my Father went to Chawton for one night. The attendants at
the Funeral, you see, are not named–– but I am sure they were
only the Brothers, and that you went in your Father’s place–– he
himself & others, feeling that in the sad state of his own health
and nerves, the trial would be too much for him. He therefore
stayed at home. Capt. Charles Austen is not named amongst those
who came to Winchester & I make sure he must then have been at
sea–– or he would certainly have been amongst the mourners.
I am very glad you are getting on so fast with your task for this
proves I hope, that you find it no very great trouble––
My own wish would be, that not any allusion should be made
to the Manydown story°–– or at least that the reference should be
so vague, as to give no clue to the place or the person. Mr. Wither’s
children are still living & in the neighbourhood–– probably
they never yet heard the tale–– but some of then [sic] are readers,
& they would be sure to fall in with the Memoir. A few people
remain thereabouts who know the tradition–– The Knights
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