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Austen's last extant letter to Cassandra, her only sister and closest confidante, was written when Austen was ill and near death at age 41. She bequeathed to Cassandra "every thing [sic] of which I may die possessed or which may be here after due to me." Regrettably, Cassandra later burned a substantial part of her inherited cache of letters. Of the surviving corpus of 164 letters, all of which are in this collection, most illuminating are ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More