consider the most brilliant of her novels was the first finished if not the first begun she began it in october before she was twenty one years old and completed it in about ten months in august the title then intended for it was first impressions sense and sensibility was begun in its present form immediately after the completion of the former in november but something similar in story and character had been written earlier under the title of and and if as is probable a good deal of this earlier production was retained it must form the earliest specimen of her writing that has been given to the world abbey though not prepared for the press till was certainly first composed in amongst the most valuable neighbors of the were mr and mrs and their family he was of the adjoining parish of she was sister to sir to whom we are indebted for the earliest notice of jane that exists in his a of jane of his visits at he writes the nearest neighbors of the were the of i remember jane the as a little child she was mate with mrs and much encouraged by her her mother was a miss whose grandmother waa sister to the first duke of mr was of a family of which several branches have been settled in the of and some are still remaining there when i knew jane i never suspected that she was an but my eyes told me that she was fair and handsome slight and elegant but with cheeks a little too full one may wish that sir had dwelt rather longer on the subject of these instead of being drawn away by his extreme love for to her and ancestors that great grandmother however lives in the family records as mary a daughter of lord married in westminster abbey to of in when a girl she had received a curious letter of advice and reproof written by her mother from mary or was remaining in england with her grandmother lady who seems to have been wealthy and inclined to be too indulgent to her this letter is given any such document two hundred years old dealing with domestic details must possess some interest this is remarkable not only as a specimen of the homely language in which ladies of rank then a of jane but bom the sound sense which it contains forms of expression vary but good sense and right principles are the same in the nineteenth that they were in the century my � y letters by cousin arrived here not before the of were they to us bringing y joyful news which a great while we had longed for of my most dear mother all other relations friends good health which i god continue to you all as i observe in y to y sister y extraordinary kindness of as i may truly say the best in the world in herself to make you fine so i cannot but admire her great good in affording you so very an allowance to increase her stock at the rate i find she hath done think i can never sufficiently mind you how very much it is y duty on all occasions to pay her y gratitude in all humble submission obedience to all her commands long as you live i must tell you h is to her care in y greatest measure you are like to owe y well living in this world as you cannot be very sensible you are an extraordinary charge to her so it you to take particular heed th in y whole course of y life you render her a comfort especially since t is y best way you can ever hope to make her such amends as god requires of y hands but it me a little y i am forced to take notice of you for some expressions in y to y sister a of jane � you say concerning y allowance you to bring y bread cheese even in this i do not you for a shame indeed it would be should you out run the having a provision made you for y maintenance � but y reason you give for y resolution i cannot at all approve for you say to spend more you can t because you have it not to spend otherwise it seems you would so y t is y discretion not yours th keeps you from which plainly appears in y close of y sentence saying y you think it simple to save out of y but t is my opinion if you lay all on y back h is ten a greater sin shame th to save some what out of large an allowance in y purse to help you at a dead lift child we all know our beginning but who knows his end best use th can be made of fair is to provide against t is great discretion of small for a young woman to herself house y mother neither nor wife ever bestowed forty pounds a on herself if you never fall und a worse reputation in y world th she i thank god for it hath hitherto done you need not at it you cannot be ignorant of y difference th was between my fortune what you are to expect you ought likewise to consider th you have seven brothers sisters you are all one man s children therefore it is very unreasonable that one should expect to be preferred in finery much above all y rest for tis impossible you should much mistake a of jane j s condition as to fancy lie is able to allow every one of you forty pounds a a piece for such an allowance with the charge of their over and above will amount to at least five hundred pounds a a sum y poor feather can ill spare 