Letters 

(CON) Signed autographed letter from Jane Porter to a Miss Wallace, declining a dinner invitation, and referring to an enclosed publishers' advertisement for a new illustrated edition of her novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (first published1803). She describes it thus: 'one of my new publisher's Papers, about his republication of my Thaddeus.' The letter dates from 1845, the date 2 July being a Wednesday and from other internal evidence. Porter acknowledges the publications of Miss Wallace's own "Wallace". In another letter to the same recipient, Porter talks of "your great Ancestor", implying a familial relation to the Scottish Knight William Wallace. A full transcription can be accessed via the following link: https://chawtonhouse.org/the-library/library-collections/quills-and-characters-the-letters/jane-porter-to-miss-wallace/
(PRV) Originally enclosed in Accession No. 589, a 1st edition of Porter's novel The Scottish chiefs, a romance. In five volumes. By Miss Jane Porter, author of Thaddeus of Warsaw, and Remarks on Sidney's Aphorisms (1810). This contains a very faint contemporary ink signature, 'Mary Strode[?]' across each title page.