Saved!
Genuinely good news – a commodity that’s been in short supply this past year – came our way earlier this month, with the announcement (see here, here and here) that an extraordinary collection of books and manuscripts would be acquired by public institutions in Britain instead of dispersed into private hands. Among the precious items included in the Honresfield Library are two letters written by Jane Austen, including the earliest known to survive – the famous 1796 letter to