LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
ferent sort of servant. The washing would be the greatest evil. Nothing is settled, however, at present with her, but I should think it would be as well for all parties if she could suit herself in the meanwhile somewhere nearer her husband and child than Bath. Mrs. H. Rice's place would be very likely to do for her. It is not many, as she is herself aware, that she is qualified for.
My mother has not been so well for many months as she is now.
Miss Austen, Godmersham Park,
Faversham, Kent.
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1801
Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Perrot were the uncle and
aunt who lived at Paragon, Bath, and it would
seem that the Steventon family, having made up
their mind to settle in Bath upon Mr. George
Austen's giving over his clerical duties to his
son, made the Perrots' house their head-quarters
whilst they looked about for a fitting abode.
Cassandra Austen seems to have been visiting,
first at Mrs. Lloyd's and then at Kintbury, for
to these places the letters are addressed. They
