On this day in 1811. . .
Sixty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen was perfectly capable of writing a sensitive condolence message. The letters she wrote her brother Frank in 1805, breaking the news of their father’s sudden death, are models of the form – kind, compassionate, and thorough in answering all the questions she knew he would have. Such is not the tone of the letter Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra, exactly 210 years ago today (#74 in Deid