'I remain, Sir, your obt. humble Set.
'J. AUSTEN.'
'Hans Place, December 11 (1815).
'DEAR SIR,--As I find that "Emma" is advertised for publication as
early as Saturday next, I think it best to lose no time in settling
all that remains to be settled on the subject, and adopt this method
as involving the smallest tax on your time.
'In the first place, I beg you to understand that I leave the terms on
which the trade should be supplied with the work entirely to your
judgment, entreating you to be guided in every such arrangement by
your own experience of what is most likely to clear off the edition
rapidly. I shall be satisfied with whatever you feel to be best. The
title-page must be "Emma, dedicated by permission to H.R.H. the Prince
Regent." And it is my particular wish that one set should be
completed and sent to H.R.H. two or three days before the work is
generally public. It should be sent under cover to the Rev. J. S.
Clarke, Librarian, Carlton House. I shall subjoin a list of those
persons to whom I must trouble you to forward also a set each, when
the work is out; all unbound, with "From the Authoress" in the first
page.
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