{31a} Raikes’s Memoirs, vol. ii p. 207.

{35} See ‘Spectator,’ No. 102, on the Fan Exercise.  Old gentlemen who had survived the fashion of wearing swords were known to regret the disuse of that custom, because it put an end to one way of distinguishing those who had, from those who had not, been used to good society.  To wear the sword easily was an art which, like swimming and skating, required to be learned in youth.  Children could practise it early with their toy swords adapted to their size.

{41} Mrs. Gaskell, in her tale of ‘Sylvia’s Lovers,’ declares that this hand-spinning rivalled harp-playing in its gracefulness.

{62} James, the writer’s eldest brother.

{63} The limb was saved.

{65} The invitation, the ball dress, and some other things in this and the preceding letter refer to a ball annually given at Hurstbourne Park, on the anniversary of the Earl of Portsmouth’s marriage with his first wife.  He was the Lord Portsmouth whose eccentricities afterwards became notorious, and the invitations, as well as other arrangements about these balls, were of a peculiar character.

{66a} The father of Sir William Heathcote, of Hursley, who was married to a daughter of Mr. Bigg Wither, of Manydown, and lived in the neighbourhood.

{66b} A very dull old lady, then residing with Mrs. Lloyd.

{68} The Duke of Sussex, son of George III., married, without royal consent, to the Lady Augusta Murray.

{75a} Here is evidence that Jane Austen was acquainted with Bath before it became her residence in 1801.  See p.[25].

{75b} A gentleman and lady lately engaged to be married.

{80} It seems that Charles Austen, then first lieutenant of the ‘Endymion,’ had had an opportunity of shewing attention and kindness to some of Lord Leven’s family.

{83} See Wharton’s note to Johnson and Steevens’ Shakspeare.

{102} This mahogany desk, which has done good service to the public, is now in the possession of my sister, Miss Austen.

{107} At this time, February 1813, ‘Mansfield Park’ was nearly finished.

{110} The present Lady Pollen, of Redenham, near Andover, then at a school in London.

{117} See Mrs. Gaskell’s ‘Life of Miss Bronte,’ vol. ii. p. 215.

{122} It was her pleasure to boast of greater ignorance than she had any just claim to.  She knew more than her mother tongue, for she knew a good deal of French and a little of Italian.

{126} Mrs. Gaskell’s ‘Life of Miss Bronte,’ vol. ii. p. 53.

{130} This must have been ‘Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk.’