title: My Dear Charlotte: With the assistance of Jane Austen's letters
author:  Hazel Holt 
description: Hazel Holt has many devoted fans in the United States and Great Britain as a writer of "cosy" British mysteries; she has published nineteen Mrs. Malory novels at last count. She is also known to admirers of Barbara Pym as the friend and biographer who additionally edited Pym's posthumous works.
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  # The Touchstone
  
  
  ### Edith Wharton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Professor Joslin, who, as our readers are doubtless aware, is
  
  
  engaged in writing the life of Mrs. Aubyn, asks us to state that
  
  
  he will be greatly indebted to any of the famous novelist's
  
  
  friends who will furnish him with information concerning the
  
  
  period previous to her coming to England. Mrs. Aubyn had so few
  
  
  intimate friends, and consequently so few regular correspondents,
  
  
  that letters will be of special value. Professor Joslin's address
  
  
  is 10 Augusta Gardens, Kensington, and he begs us to say that he
  
  
  will promptly return any documents entrusted to him."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Glennard dropped the Spectator and sat looking into the fire. The
  
  
  club was filling up, but he still had to himself the small inner
  
  
  room, with its darkening outlook down the rainstreaked prospect of
  
  
  Fifth Avenue. It was all dull and dismal enough, yet a moment
  
  
  earlier his boredom had been perverse